Hot Spots

In the essay "Real Men Don't: Anti-Male Bias in English", the first hot spot I found is where Marilyn French states "All men are rapists, and they are." I disagree with this statement one hundred percent. It is sad to say but the word rapist does make you think of a man and it gives them a bad reputation. Females can just as easily sexually assault a male. A small percentage of reported rapes are women, and many men who are raped are too embarrassed to report a situation like this. The other one I found is how in the English language, many of the law-breakers titles suggest that it is a male suspect rather than a female suspect. English automatically has a suggestion that males are the guilty suspect no matter what the crime is. Even the word suspect suggests that it was a male rather than a female. In one situation, they actually found fingerprints in the victim’s car and still presumed the male guilty. This is outrageous and makes the male population look much worse than it actually should.
In the essay "There Is No Unmarked Woman" the first hot spot I found is that males were unmarked. I think that males can be just as marked as females. They can have different clothing styles as well. Their shirts, shoes, and pants can say a lot about the person. Also, hairstyles can make someone make an unfair stereotype of a male as well. The second hot spot I found is where she sent the manuscript to five male colleagues, asking them to alert her to any interpretation, phrasing, or wording that might seem unfairly negative towards men. She then went on a television talk show and a male nodded in agreement to her bashing males. He said that he agreed with everything that she had to say but since it was a female talking about males, she was bashing them. However, he did not seem to think that she drew any unfair conclusions about them. He then made himself look stupid in front of the whole show because he make a terrible point.