Farrell's Last Paragraph Analysis

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I believe that Farrell's last paragraph is sort of sexist. Farrell contributes to the fact that the battle of the sexes lies more within the womens hands than the man's. Also, Farrell seems to believe that men haven't changed. Although his opinion seems to be more swayed, this may just be because I am used to people being more sexiest towards women. Farrell explains that it could easily be women targetting men rather then men targetting women which seemingly is very true. People seem to target men more when it comes to sexism, this may be because women very often times treated unfairly in comparision to men or just the fact that we are on the look out for certain accusations. It is justifyable for us to look out for this sort of unfairness

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