In Eugene Augusts' “Real Men Don’t: Anti Male Bias in English” my first Hot spot was chosen on page 131. “Male victims are simply not news; women ( and children) victims are”. This statement is surprisingly not very shocking to me. Just from watching the news when woman and children are hurt it is usually talked about more specifically then when men are hurt. I believe that every person is equal and when putting more emphasis on woman then on men in positive and negative ways it is gender discrimination. This quotation is very thought provoking to me and made me really think about how true it really is. My second hot spot is found on page 139. Eugene decided to close his passage with this sentence and it made me question it. “ The more we make men the enemy; the more they will have to behave like the enemy”. We have so many negative connotations towards men. When we were talking about the words like murder and rapist in class almost everyone said it was a more male prominent word. This quotation made me think what if everyone stopped putting the image of negativity towards males in their heads? I can only imagine if this would stop a lot of the war and murder and bad things going on in the world today.
In the piece “ There Is No Unmarked Woman” by Deborah Tannen my first hot spot was found on page 142. “ There is no unmarked woman”. This sentence sums up the whole passage. I completely agree with this sentence and don’t think i have ever thought so much about it before i read this. Every woman is judged based on how they present themselves. Woman need to stop judging other woman it is crazy the amount of pressure we put on each other to fit a stereotype. This sentence really made me think how much i need to stop judging others because i don’t want to be judged myself. “Woman Can’t even fill out a form without telling a story about themselves”. I completely agree with this statement. I think it is so unfair that when labeling a woman there are so many different choices that tell others if they are single or married, when mens don’t tell anything about there relationship status. If woman want others to know there relationship status they will tell others.I thought this sentence was very funny when I read it because i have thought about this for a while now and my opinion is still the same. Men are lucky that they only have one main label when a woman’s gives personal information.