Thursday, October 8, 2009

"The Men We Carry In Our Minds"

When Reading "The Men We Carry In our Minds" By Scott Russell Sanders, alot of mixed feelings were occurring in my mind. I agree with most of the essay, but there were a few things that i just couldn't come to terms with that Sanders was saying. I feel that like sanders said in the essay that "men are the ones who've been discredited" because in some ways they have been. They are the ones that had to go off and leave their families to fight wars and to work longs days to take care of their families. In that time that's how it was, and we were all used to this. The one thing that I did disagree with Sanders on was when he thought that all woman believed that "men were guilty of having kept all the joys and privileges to themselves". He based most of these thoughts off of this one woman's opinon that he had met at a university. I believe that everyone doesn't have the same opinion, and that Sanders shouldn't have just used that one example to explain how he felt about it. Other than that one disagreement I think that this essay had a lot of good thoughts that i aligned with very well. He's right men did work very hard back then, maybe more than they should have. Nowadays I'm glad that the work can be equally shared between men and woman,and that complaints about the opposite sex are acceptable because the work between them is in fact equal.

3 comments:

  1. I like how you chose one point to agree with and one that you dont agree with. I think that the arguments you make go with the essay. Overall i thought this was well written.

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  2. I feel that your response is accurate and fair because it is how you truly felt about the essay.I also believe that you backed up your writing with good examples from the essay.

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  3. I can tell you really considered both sides of Sander's arguement and measured them up to your own opinion. You did a great job being opinionated but not too bias by giving the pros and cons of workload of both genders. This infact in my opinion was well done :)

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