Men And Women, Not Quite The Same Rhetorical Analysis

One of the most significant differences between the genders is the communication of the brain. The female uses both hemispheres to process language, and the male uses only the left side of brain. On average, females have stronger communication and interpersonal, and boys speak and read later than girls (Spark Note). I have collected some information from a chart in Richard Charter’s article, Men and Women, Not Quite the Same, to help make a better understanding of how men and women handle different situations. (You can refer to the chart on page 12 of this essay). These examples include what men and women have in their bathrooms. Charter states, “A man has six items in his bathroom: toothbrush and toothpaste, shaving cream, razor, a bar of

Another example from his chart is when he talks about how men and women argue. Charter determines that, “A woman has the last word in any argument.” He debates, “Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.” You can see these examples in your own home with couples or on television. To wrap up Charter’s ideas and sum up his chart, another example is how different men and women are when it comes to dressing up. Typically women are “supposed” to be the more attractive ones and are supposed to present themselves desirable for the man. Charter proves this assumption by noting, “A woman will dress up to go shopping, water the plants, empty the trash, answer the phone, read a book, and get the mail.” He grapples, “A man will dress up for weddings and funerals” (Charter). Although Charter’s arguments are somewhat stereotypical, they are relevant in today’s society of how men and women perceive each other. Stereotypical couples on television are always bickering at each other about these similar topics. The woman is usually hissing at her husband for being messy and wearing the same shirt three days in a

The power to make legislative change that will benefit women will always remain with the privileged white male class. Violence rather than peace would continually characterize the male-dominated society.

De Beauvoir once said, “to be free, a woman must act and think like a man” (Litchfield). Is her argument self-defeating? Why should women be envious of male qualities and dismiss female ones? If being a feminist is to want to be a 'man like any other,’ as de Beauvoir did, then I am definitely not a feminist.

At the time she published her works, de Beauvoir was confident that women would arrive at “complete economic and social equality, which will bring about an inner metamorphosis” (686). And man and woman will exist both for self and for the other: “mutually recognizing each other as subject, each will yet remain for the other an other.” In this recognition, in this reciprocity, will “the slavery of half of humanity” be abolished