The positive effects of men if they could escape these gender roles would be that they could live in a society where they are not judged on what feelings they choose to feel. In a world without gender roles men wouldn’t be viewed as strong, bread winners, independent, fearless. These character traits would be seen as just traits not masculine traits.
Zeilinger uses humor to point out the excess of gender roles for men. In her beginning sentence she says,”Guys are supposed to be rocks, inside and out.They are supposed to be defined by their muscles and brute force than by any complex or unique personality trait.” This sentence brings humor and truth together because it is true. Men are viewed as if they were made out of a stone that could withstand anything. In …show more content…
Emotionless basically, and she is making the reader aware of this issue that needs to be talked about.
For something to be prescribed it means to be assigned. This word applied to gender roles in a way that as a male you don’t chose what you are viewed as, what you are viewed as is assigned to you by other people. Same for a female, as a women you don’t pick and chose your gender stereotypes. They are given to you.
The essay “The Problem with Female Superheroes” is written in an informative technique to inform the reader on how female superheroes mold the thinking of the female and male audience. While this essay is more argumentative because it doesn’t state specific facts but its arguing that men also are gender stereotyped along with women. I feel that May’s “The Problem with Female Superheroes” is more effective at getting her point across because it has facts to back up her essay. Opposed to Zeilinger which is based off personal
Zeilinger uses humor to point out the excess of gender roles for men. In her beginning sentence she says,”Guys are supposed to be rocks, inside and out.They are supposed to be defined by their muscles and brute force than by any complex or unique personality trait.” This sentence brings humor and truth together because it is true. Men are viewed as if they were made out of a stone that could withstand anything. In …show more content…
Emotionless basically, and she is making the reader aware of this issue that needs to be talked about.
For something to be prescribed it means to be assigned. This word applied to gender roles in a way that as a male you don’t chose what you are viewed as, what you are viewed as is assigned to you by other people. Same for a female, as a women you don’t pick and chose your gender stereotypes. They are given to you.
The essay “The Problem with Female Superheroes” is written in an informative technique to inform the reader on how female superheroes mold the thinking of the female and male audience. While this essay is more argumentative because it doesn’t state specific facts but its arguing that men also are gender stereotyped along with women. I feel that May’s “The Problem with Female Superheroes” is more effective at getting her point across because it has facts to back up her essay. Opposed to Zeilinger which is based off personal