hotspots

While reading the essay, a couple of "hotspots" stood out to me. The first hotspot was on page 131. When I read "a woman who kills her male partner can plead Battered Woman's Syndrome, a man who kills (or even defends himself against) a violent female partner cannot plead the Battered Man's Syndrome" I disagreed immediately. I think it's unfair and if a male is treated by a woman the same way a woman was treated by a male, he should definitley have a right to plead the same syndrome just in reverse. I kind of think it's funny how people are willing to forget that men have feelings too and don't like being taken advantage of just like anyone else. No one should be abused and be able to get away with it like the women may be able to. Violent isn't okay for a woman to act, it isn't okay for anyone to act that way. Another "hotspot" that caught my eye was on page 132. Marilyn French clearly stated that, "All men are rapists and that's all they are." This again just surprises me. I'm surprised that a woman would have the nerve to say this out loud. It sounds like Marily French as been abused more than once. If that's the case, then maybe the problem is her and she needs to realize it. I think it's impossible that she can't find one good thing about a man. Doesn't she have children? Doesn't she have nieces or nephews? All of those children took a man to be here. I also read "There is No Unmarked Woman" by Deborah Tannen. On page 144, Ralph Fasold says that the unmarked sex is really the females. I think this is one of my "hotspots" because it is a complete 180 degree turn from the authors point. What I found the most interesting was that certain species only reproduce females, and there aren't any species that can produce only males. I didn't know that sexism went into this much detail. My last "hotspot" is on page 145. This is when the author said she had been on a televison show after publishing her book. The host asked the audience if her book was male-bashing, and a man in the audience shook his head yes. The host called on him and the man said that he agreed with everything the book said about men and likewise with women. Then she asked why he thought she was male bashing then, and he said "because she's a women and she's talking about men." I guess I hadn't realized that even speaking about men is considered male-bashing now or even that some men think like that. I found it odd that the man agreed with everything the book said, then he easily said that it was still male-bashing.