The Lady's Dressing Room Essay

Gender discrimination, or more of a response to receiving gender equality, is shown in the literary work of “the Reasons that Induced Dr. S[wift] to Write a Poem Called the Lady’s Dressing Room”. This work is a reply to Jonathan Swift’s “The Lady’s Dressing Room”, which describes his experience in a Lady’s dressing room. It goes on to describe a woman as some horrid animal, and this experience ruins women for Swift completely. The writing of this poem is in such a negative slander and shows the ugliness of women in Swift’s eyes. He even states “such gaudy tulips raised from Dung” (line 145), explaining that he cannot believe something so ugly came from something that is supposed to be beautiful. The statements that Swift stated about this woman would be enough to cause most women of today’s society to have a mental breakdown. Instead of letting this slide, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu decides to write a response to Swift’s story, “The Reasons that Induced Dr. Swift to Write a Poem Called the Lady’s Dressing Room. She starts off by describing the Swift, and stating that he was in a brothel. The only reason a woman would consider sleeping with him is due to gold …show more content…
We as a society have made great strides in stopping gender discrimination, from women’s suffrage to equal right opportunities in work environments, to even having females run for the presidency. As for other demographic areas in the world, women live in fear every day, all because of upbringings or cultural traditions. Hopefully one day all humans can be seen as equals, instead of by gender. Hopefully one day all humans do not discriminate at all, whether it be race, gender, sexual orientation, or any aesthetic characteristic. Mother Teresa once said, “I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; Together, we can do great things”. I just pray that one day everybody completely understands the meaning of that