The primitive idea that men’s bodies are indestructible and unbreakable are all ideas that John Updike attacks in his article. He lays out the struggles, and the hardships of being a man in a very sarcastic way. Elinor Burkett in a similar fashion tries to show how women still have a stereotype of being treated as nothing more than sexual pieces. She talks about all the trans people who try to define how women are and should be acting when they haven't been a woman long enough to know determine what a woman is. Both sides are not wrong on the struggles that each gender faces on a daily basis, Burkett's ideology and Updike's ideology support each other because in their own way they both show how each gender is wrongfully stereotyped. They both
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Burkett explains that men get gender reassignment surgeries are a much higher rate than women do, That is due to the stereotypes that are placed holding men back from being who they truly are. Burkett says, “In fact, it’s hard to believe that this hard-won loosening of gender constraints for women isn’t at least a partial explanation for why three times as many gender reassignment surgeries are performed on men. Men are, comparatively speaking, more bound, even strangled, by gender stereotyping.”(Burkett). Realizing that not only are women being generalized but also men, Burkett shows stereotyping goes for everyone. Updike tends to be sarcastic in his writing, and uses extremes to show how strong the stereotype of how a man should act is. Updike says, “My impulse to hurl myself from high windows and the edges of cliffs belongs to my body, not my mind, which resists the siren call of the chasm with all its might; the interior struggle knocks the wind from my lungs and tightens my scrotum and gives any trip to Europe, with its Alps, castle parapets, and gargoyled cathedral lookouts, a flavor of nightmare”(Updike). Burkett supports Updike's extreme examples of manliness by giving her own set of facts that show just how constrained to the idea of being a “man” really
Burkett explains that men get gender reassignment surgeries are a much higher rate than women do, That is due to the stereotypes that are placed holding men back from being who they truly are. Burkett says, “In fact, it’s hard to believe that this hard-won loosening of gender constraints for women isn’t at least a partial explanation for why three times as many gender reassignment surgeries are performed on men. Men are, comparatively speaking, more bound, even strangled, by gender stereotyping.”(Burkett). Realizing that not only are women being generalized but also men, Burkett shows stereotyping goes for everyone. Updike tends to be sarcastic in his writing, and uses extremes to show how strong the stereotype of how a man should act is. Updike says, “My impulse to hurl myself from high windows and the edges of cliffs belongs to my body, not my mind, which resists the siren call of the chasm with all its might; the interior struggle knocks the wind from my lungs and tightens my scrotum and gives any trip to Europe, with its Alps, castle parapets, and gargoyled cathedral lookouts, a flavor of nightmare”(Updike). Burkett supports Updike's extreme examples of manliness by giving her own set of facts that show just how constrained to the idea of being a “man” really