In the article “Mother’s Day Kiss-Off”, Leslie Bennetts argues that the anger in the women of America comes from be forced to decide whether to be a working mother, or a stay-at-home mom, and losing something either way. Bennetts proves this theory by interviewing, real life examples, and bewildering inconveniences of our culture’s views towards women.
Throughout the article Bennetts’s main focus is on women’s conflicted feelings towards the collision of family needs and the work place requirements. She enlightens us with the underground knowledge never brought to light of the personal responsibilities and sacrifices a mother makes. Stating that our culture still regards the raising of children to be a mother’s responsibility, Bennetts reminds …show more content…
Being, the review was posted on Mother’s day, and begins with a joyful family at home with a spoiled mother from her children and husband. She did this because it catches your eye and makes you want to keep reading a happy story on an annually exciting day. Then with a sharp turn, she insist that within the next day, the world will move on. Once again leaving women with their responsibilities largely on their own, opening up the readers mind to more sides.
Bennetts uses the cultures view of women’s responsibilities as a burden, by pointing out work places attitudes. With their inflexible hours and hostility toward care taking needs, while at the same time women’s husbands still view the childcare and house chores as their wife’s work. Bennetts uses this overwhelming factor to guide the reader in the negative direction towards how women are feeling. Which as Bennett’s shouts, is …show more content…
She does this to provide a real life case that can connect the situation to the readers own lives. She does not just use any old example however, she uses a mother whose lifelong dream was to be a lawyer. Once she had made it to her goal, her husband and her own brutal work hours made it impossible for childcare duties. Bennetts made sure to add the fact that her husband understood his wife’s stress level, but was only putting it on her to leave work. Bennetts gives this example of the husbands’ ignorance, to urge the reader in feeling the anger that she is trying to prove is in these women. If she had not have gave this personal example, it would not have felt like there were much hard facts in her argument. Also, she tells the readers that the wife’s decision had made her upset. Pitying her for having to leave her loved career, to accept thankless responsibilities of a stay-at-home mom. She mentions this because it shows sympathy, and makes the reader want to hear what else she has to
Throughout the article Bennetts’s main focus is on women’s conflicted feelings towards the collision of family needs and the work place requirements. She enlightens us with the underground knowledge never brought to light of the personal responsibilities and sacrifices a mother makes. Stating that our culture still regards the raising of children to be a mother’s responsibility, Bennetts reminds …show more content…
Being, the review was posted on Mother’s day, and begins with a joyful family at home with a spoiled mother from her children and husband. She did this because it catches your eye and makes you want to keep reading a happy story on an annually exciting day. Then with a sharp turn, she insist that within the next day, the world will move on. Once again leaving women with their responsibilities largely on their own, opening up the readers mind to more sides.
Bennetts uses the cultures view of women’s responsibilities as a burden, by pointing out work places attitudes. With their inflexible hours and hostility toward care taking needs, while at the same time women’s husbands still view the childcare and house chores as their wife’s work. Bennetts uses this overwhelming factor to guide the reader in the negative direction towards how women are feeling. Which as Bennett’s shouts, is …show more content…
She does this to provide a real life case that can connect the situation to the readers own lives. She does not just use any old example however, she uses a mother whose lifelong dream was to be a lawyer. Once she had made it to her goal, her husband and her own brutal work hours made it impossible for childcare duties. Bennetts made sure to add the fact that her husband understood his wife’s stress level, but was only putting it on her to leave work. Bennetts gives this example of the husbands’ ignorance, to urge the reader in feeling the anger that she is trying to prove is in these women. If she had not have gave this personal example, it would not have felt like there were much hard facts in her argument. Also, she tells the readers that the wife’s decision had made her upset. Pitying her for having to leave her loved career, to accept thankless responsibilities of a stay-at-home mom. She mentions this because it shows sympathy, and makes the reader want to hear what else she has to