The Quiet Man

Randolph Trumbach's essay, Sex, Gender and Sexual Identity in Modern Culture: Male Sodomy and Female Prostitution in Enlightenment London, questions why male sodomites and female prostitutes were awarded similar social status in this period. Trumbach investigates this question through an analysis of the effects that Enlightenment thought had on the gender/sex system. Trumbach utilizes police documentation, hospital manuscripts, written laws, and his own previous research concerning the sexual…

For as long as there have been humans, there have been two sexes whose role have been mercurial, and their places constantly challenged. In the second wave of Feminisms people fought for equal status. In the play “Trifles”, Susan Glaspell shows the social disparity between Men, and Women’s status in the American society through wide-ranging conflicts. In the initial conflict between Minnie Wright and John Wright, Minnie’s husband, Glaspell delineates the disparity through their presumed…

It can make them put on a front, act overconfident. Opposing to these reactions, fear can also make people run away or hide. In the mid to late 1900’s during the Vietnam War, soldiers were faced with this same fear. The men did not want to appear weak to each other, their community, their family, or to anyone. In Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried he reveals stories of the Alpha Company, a United States unit of foot soldiers, that he was in during the Vietnam War. Some men went to war to…

one-up position, or at least avoid appearing one-down” (154). This is true because I am always trying to one-up my wife. I attempt to find something that she has done wrong so that subconsciously I can feel better about my own wrongdoings. I am the man of the house, and I am not supposed to show weakness or my integrity could be in…

different ethics. He was very compassionate, diligent, and courageous. While reading the novel, one will see that while having these certain ethics it indeed helped Walt in solving the crime. Throughout the entire book Walt was a very compassionate man. Walt showed so much compassion for his job, he even sacrificed time with his family and friends so he could do work. Once he got word that there had been a murder in his town, he set his whole heart on trying to solve the mystery. Which, in the…

The media uses diction and juxtaposition to characterize society as primitive and sexist in its treatment of menstruation. In his article “Free the Tampons,” reporter Rony Caryn of The New York Times notes that “even in the age of oversharing, periods are treated like a dirty little secret” (Caryn). While “dirty little secret” refers to a truth that people conceal from others because they perceive it as too embarrassing to share, Caryn’s use of the word “even” indicates that he sees this view of…

We found a ladder that went up to a heavy manhole cover, and we pushed and pushed until it broke loose and we finally saw daylight. Our group crawled out of the hole and found ourselves in the woods near Sylvan Lake. Everything was quiet now and it appeared the storm had passed. I wondered to myself, “Is this a dream?” My friends and I looked at each other and cracked up with laughter. We knew we were now safe. My friend looked at me with a serious expression and said, “Wait a…

In Chrys Ingraham’s “Heterosexuality”, she discusses an angle of women’s oppression that stems from heterosexuality being normalized in society. This normalization is not natural, and is instigated because it helps men stay above in power. It is a social institution that has a bias in favor of heterosexuality and romanticize heterosexual relationships and related rituals. The main argument of Chrys Ingraham’s “Heterosexuality” is that heterosexuality is not something people are born with or…

Respecting myself is what I consider to be one of my defining characteristics, so when I heard one of my male cross country teammates saying offensive things about me and my female teammates, I had to say something. At this time four out of the six girls on my team were dealing with some type of injury. Problems with our hips, knees, and ankles were some of the issues we were dealing with. This particular male teammate was saying things like, “Our girls team is really slacking right now.” In…

culturally preconditioned to subconsciously believe that men are more superior to women, yet morally see them as equals without even realizing it? Perhaps so. Hugh Garner’s “The Yellow Sweater” begins with a successful, plump middle-aged business man who is driving home from his most recent business trip. As he passes by several hitchhikers on his way home, he refuses to help any of them; except for one young teenaged…