Response on Dave Barry’s “Batting Clean-Up and Striking Out”
Glancing around my bedroom, I observe clean floors and homework assignments sprawled out on the table as my jumbled written thoughts are on the brink of being thrown away. My collection of books is lined up neatly on a shelf along with the stuffed animals my grown-up self does not play with anymore. I can hear down the stairs and I listen to the television playing the Cleveland Brown’s football game and the microwave signaling the finished result of the leftover brisket that was in the refrigerator. In Dave Barry’s essay, “Batting Clean-Up and Striking Out,” he explains that the majority of women fasten their focus on the unimportant aspects of life such as cleaning; yet through the …show more content…
As two individuals devote themselves to spending their lives together, it is insisted to have the ability to work together, and if the woman constantly cooks for the man and has to clean the house because of the laziness and filthiness of him too, there is a change that needs to happen. Likewise, I attended a wedding on September sixteenth, and as the priest spoke, he said that the woman was to follow the words of the Bible and be the man’s disciple. Which also leads me to conclude that women have an unlimited amount of pressure on them. They are not only envisioned as the person who are made to clean all the floors, counters, and sinks, but also is supposed to cook for the entire family on a daily basis. It seems that the missus will always be inferior to the mister. With all things considered, I did not intend to bring out the unknown feminist side of me, but I become ireful if someone forces me to do something for them because it’s society's image of …show more content…
So why harp on the woman for wanting to get together with friends for dinner when all the man wants to do is watch the big game. Barry mentions this situation happening to him and his wife when there was a World Series game going on (Barry 221), they were invited to a social gathering and the husband’s of the couples wanted to watch the game instead of talk, so they left the room to let the women talk amongst themselves because they were hindering them from enjoying the game. This technique is quite resourceful, women tend to not care about sports, they would rather talk gossip instead. Not only that, but if someone asks a girl what a certain football term is, like a ‘first down,’ they more than likely not understand it. However, there are many women who are very educated in sports, including myself. Saturday Night and Sunday Football tend to be weekly party starters in my household, especially when basketball tournaments start, notably March Madness. I can guarantee multiple brackets will be filled out, and no matter how many times we don’t win; I will continue to write Ohio State winning all the way. My mom and sister aren’t big fans of watching sports, but my sister plays sports, that’s just who we are as a family. The reason I mention these personal facts is the sole reason that Barry had received multiple irate responses from his previous sexist articles. Saying that there was a
Glancing around my bedroom, I observe clean floors and homework assignments sprawled out on the table as my jumbled written thoughts are on the brink of being thrown away. My collection of books is lined up neatly on a shelf along with the stuffed animals my grown-up self does not play with anymore. I can hear down the stairs and I listen to the television playing the Cleveland Brown’s football game and the microwave signaling the finished result of the leftover brisket that was in the refrigerator. In Dave Barry’s essay, “Batting Clean-Up and Striking Out,” he explains that the majority of women fasten their focus on the unimportant aspects of life such as cleaning; yet through the …show more content…
As two individuals devote themselves to spending their lives together, it is insisted to have the ability to work together, and if the woman constantly cooks for the man and has to clean the house because of the laziness and filthiness of him too, there is a change that needs to happen. Likewise, I attended a wedding on September sixteenth, and as the priest spoke, he said that the woman was to follow the words of the Bible and be the man’s disciple. Which also leads me to conclude that women have an unlimited amount of pressure on them. They are not only envisioned as the person who are made to clean all the floors, counters, and sinks, but also is supposed to cook for the entire family on a daily basis. It seems that the missus will always be inferior to the mister. With all things considered, I did not intend to bring out the unknown feminist side of me, but I become ireful if someone forces me to do something for them because it’s society's image of …show more content…
So why harp on the woman for wanting to get together with friends for dinner when all the man wants to do is watch the big game. Barry mentions this situation happening to him and his wife when there was a World Series game going on (Barry 221), they were invited to a social gathering and the husband’s of the couples wanted to watch the game instead of talk, so they left the room to let the women talk amongst themselves because they were hindering them from enjoying the game. This technique is quite resourceful, women tend to not care about sports, they would rather talk gossip instead. Not only that, but if someone asks a girl what a certain football term is, like a ‘first down,’ they more than likely not understand it. However, there are many women who are very educated in sports, including myself. Saturday Night and Sunday Football tend to be weekly party starters in my household, especially when basketball tournaments start, notably March Madness. I can guarantee multiple brackets will be filled out, and no matter how many times we don’t win; I will continue to write Ohio State winning all the way. My mom and sister aren’t big fans of watching sports, but my sister plays sports, that’s just who we are as a family. The reason I mention these personal facts is the sole reason that Barry had received multiple irate responses from his previous sexist articles. Saying that there was a