In the articles, Anne-Marie Slaughter, and Richard Dorment, an editor at Esquire Magazine, portray their views on the difficulties on being family care-givers in corporate and government workplaces. Slaughter uses pathos, and logos to portray her arguments on why women cannot have a family and a corporate/government job in today’s society. Whereas Dorment uses mainly logos to address his argument that men too have difficulty when it comes to having a family and a corporate job because some professions are not just male dominated fields but are dominated by women, such as teaching. Firstly Slaughter uses pathos to convey her argument to the everyday woman.
The dangers of working in factories gave a great perspective of what it was like to do a man’s job, but women weren’t afraid. They desired equality and
More often than not, society compels us to behave like genders we are not. For instance, when faced with challenges like finance, family issues and education, women are expected to be exceptionally strong. Likewise, when men are confronted with sensitive issues they are not expected to openly show their emotions like women. Some jobs description requires female
Some make it, while others don’t. Capitalism is a double-edged sword that involves isolation, as well as individuality: “The idea that each of us is unique and should be free to do as we like... corresponded to a society of market relations, in which people are connected with one another only through buying and selling.” (Myers). Human relations are based on much more than market relationships and sales. This dysfunctional capitalist relationship is reflected through the way Willy and Happy communicate.
In 1980, Dr. Robert Plutchik, an author and psychologist, decided to get in touch with feelings. He constructed a theory of emotions, categorizing them as primary, secondary, or tertiary. In short, a primary emotion is an immediate response, while a secondary emotion is incited by the former, leading to the tertiary emotion, the most vulnerable to one’s control, and typically the most tenacious. Initially, it’s a chain reaction, with each emotion catalyzing its successor. In her essay, Barbara Lazear Ascher observes the behavior of her fellow New Yorker’s interactions with their homeless populace.
Ms Slaughter admits that women, who “define the nature of masculinity as much as other men do…have to find and embrace an image of a man who can care for children; earn less than we do; have his own ideas about how to organize kitchens, lessons and trips; and still be fully sexy and attractive as a man.” Ms. Slaughter offers some valuable suggestions for employers. She publicize the success of work environments, which have let staff work whenever and
To my understanding, I thought that emotional and physical issues at the work place impacts everyone in regardless of one’s gender in my opinion. However as Kang went on to give examples, I understood that class, gender, and race has a great influence on labor. According to this article, there are two important factors of body labor that contributes to emotional labor. Body labor explores “the embodied dimensions of emotional labor and it investigates the intersections of race, gender, and class in shaping its performance”.
A culture where people attach themselves to their social status and their commodities, thus rendering humans as commodities, who can be abused and exploited as means to an end. I feel this book has strengthened my belief in individualism and my belief that iconoclasts are sometimes the most important people in society. I also think American Psycho should be treated as a warning that a Capitalist culture can make us value objects more than people. This leads us to what I consider the true and most frightening interpretation of American Psycho. No one cares about Bateman 's murder spree because all they care about is themselves and the immediate.
The word emotion is recognized in today’s society as a natural instinctive state of mind deriving from one's circumstances, mood, or relationships with others. With this perception in mind, one can hypothesize that living in unsustainable, corrupted conditions can be the result of man feeling desensitized and unattached from society. Likewise, if man were to live in a utopia, his emotions would reflect that of happiness, contention, and a sense of belonging. Winston, the main character in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, is a prime example of what control and isolation can due to the human mind. Him, as well as the masses of Oceania share monotony in not feeling raw emotion; their mental states of being are controlled and altered by a totalitarian,
While these emotions give people great happiness and attachment, these also can cause grief, sadness, and anguish. In the “Brave New World,” people have sexual relationships for pleasure, although they never have relationships with emotions as it is considered abnormal to feel an attachment or love for someone. Marriages and families are non-existent (Huxley 60). Scientific truth includes discoveries, the beauty of language and conclusions made from experiences. These truths are sacrificed for happiness.
The article written by, Robert Vaux gives many outside resources like Anorexia Nervosa and Related Eating Disorders Inc., HealthyPlace.com, and DiscoverYourDaughter.com. The article gives four negative effects on women from advertisements. The web page on the top left has a photograph of a woman in a bikini. A perfect example on how women are portrayed to sell a certain product. The four negative effects: excessive thinness, sexual exploitation, ageism, and consequence-free fantasies are not only what the negative effects on women, but the techniques that are used on advertisements.
Social change throughout generations affects cultural norms, and it is often a series of smaller events that end up creating substantial change. Racism, prejudice, discrimination, and sexism were more culturally accepted as Margaret was growing up prior to the Civil Rights Movement, and while society is working towards change, they are still common problems that I see daily. As females, both Margaret and I have faced and continue to face discrimination through many situations, outlined by the gender inequality index. We both face injustice in the labor market, exhibited through Margaret’s secretarial work and my work as a waitress. There are expected gender roles that dictate what is “possible” for women.
Ewan Pearson - Discursive Essay The debate about women being treated as equals in the workplace has been a continuous issue for a number of years now. Women are constantly proving themselves to be an asset to the world of work, but still have to campaign and fight for equality. Could men really cope without women within the workplace? Could Adam have coped without Eve? Women are continually showing themselves to be more than capable.
Not only children “embrace every opinion propos’d to them,” and feel the passions which arise in their fellows through sympathy, but “men of the greatest judgement and understanding” are also under the effect of sympathizing with others’ inclinations and sentiments. Observing man in society, Hume finds that no one is immune to the passions which arise in others, feelings have a tendency to spread among members of a group through sympathy. Using the medical adjective ‘contagious,’ Hume describes the passions as easily transmissible, similar to infections, which “pass with the greatest facility from one person to another, and produce correspondent movements in all human breasts.” The metaphor of contagiousness depicts how powerful the communication of the passions is: the passing of emotions happens instantaneously and involuntarily, it does not seem to be possible for anyone not be affected by sympathetic feelings. In revealing the principles of human nature, Hume finds that indifference cannot be attached to the mechanism of the communication of the passions.
Women. Women’s involvement in the working world have contributed to many items that would be missing from the world today; if they had not been allowed to work.. Women have struggled with sexism in the workplace since before they were even given the chance to try to work. They were taught from a young age that their job was to provide children, cook, and clean for their husbands, while the husband worked and provided the money. What men did not know however was that women were capable of so much more(Jewell, Hannah).
