“Hey, mama! You’re lookin mighty fine today.” as the man across the street shouts. Women all over metropolitan cities hear these similar lines as they walk around in the city. Apparently, these catcalls are suppose to be flattering comments from random strangers. If you are unfamiliar with catcalling, according to the urban dictionary, catcalling is ”When a guy gives the wert whirl whistle or yells at a babydoll for the purpose of getting attention and in hopes of a future hookup”. Two authors write articles about catcalling from two different perspectives. Which author is better? In Order to have a convincing argument,their writing should have three main characteristics that are essential to have a strong argumentative essay. The first character …show more content…
In Vawter’s article there is a clear understanding of why she doesn’t want the same incident to happen to her own daughter and states “I don’t let my own nine-year-old ride her bike alone but you better believe when she is older I will, because up until my crash it was my favorite thing to do ever.”(Vawter). The author is so traumatised from the incident that she wouldn’t let her daughter ride a bike on her own. Although these teenage boys ruined the amusement of riding a bike for the author, it does not mean that her daughter will never have the opportunity to experience the same joy. Vawter’s article also tackles some of the common arguments that women are asking for problems when they wear revealing clothing. After the accident that she had on her bike, her parents questioned her saying, “What were you wearing?” attempting to blame the accident on Vawter. This is a common misconception that women are dressing the way they are to catch men’s attention, which is bullshit because Vawter shows that it does not matter what you wear when she explains her appearance during the incident,“ I was a total nerd. I was tall for my age, around five foot seven by the time I was 11, long hair … and a mouthful of shiny metal braces and headgear complimented by a shirt my parents had made at a mall kiosk, a giant pair of lips and glitter on a decal that read Tin Grins Are In”(Vawter). The author is stating her appearance during the situation, telling the reader that she wasn’t dressed in skin tight jeans or revealing clothing. This shows that women are still targeted no matter how they appear or what they are doing, it 's not their fault. On the other hand, the logos in Lewak’s article aggravates the reader due to the lack of knowledge on the topic, she claims that “catcalls are
Sexism is very prevalent in society today. Women are often not seen as wives or girlfriends but more of as a personal maid or sex object to men attracted to her. Men value the looks of a female before anything else. If a woman is dressed more revealing than another there will be more men that get the idea that she’s not the person she actually is. This leads to more sexual harassment between men and women that is often to be thought of as the female 's fault. An example of this when women are cat called on the street and feel ashamed of their appearance but if it was a man in the situation it would be odd. The female is often made to think that she is the one who promoted these advances on herself as evidenced by Bonnie Tsui in “The Undress Code”. The female within the story believes that a sweater that had no sexual intention to it was perceived as the wrong way by a former co-worker which lead to the constant stalking of the female. She did nothing to promote these activities because she did not feel that way towards the man at
Lianne George’s article “Why Are We Dressing Our Daughters Like This?” (2014) focuses on the societal issue of an increasingly earlier development of young girls. George states that companies facilitate this early development by producing adult like goods for children that push an adult mindset and behaviour. Through the use of various examples George argues that this trend is ill advised and should not be continued.
In the article, “The Fashion Industry: Free to Be an Individual” by Hanna Berry, Berry discusses how for decades women have been told to use certain products and that if they used those products they would be beautiful. Women over the years have believed this idea and would purchase items that promised to make them prettier, thinner, smarter and even more loved. However, in reality it was never what they wore on their bodies that helped them be any of those things; but what it did help with was to empower women to become fearless and bold by what they chose to wear on their bodies as a form of expression.
Girls try to copy the clothes the celebrities wear because it is what’s considered cool. They wear makeup because if they don’t have the perfect complexion, the sexy eyes or the right lip color, they are considered ugly. Society has taken away our say in what is beautiful and attractive. Society controls what to wear and how to look. The short story, “The Girl Who Was Plugged In” by James Tiptree, shows how society can dominate the lives of the individual.
Deaf Culture is often misunderstood because the hearing world thinks of deafness as a handicap. The Deaf are not given enough credit for their disabilities even though they are unable to hear. Being misunderstood is the biggest reason why they are not accepted in the world of hearing. The learning process for them may be slower and more difficult to learn, but they are still very bright individuals. The problem at hand is the controversy of trying to “fix” the Deaf when they may or may not want to be “fixed”. The hearing world should give Deaf people a chance to show their true talents and abilities of intelligence before rushing to assumptions, such as hearing aids will fix all Deaf people, because Deaf are dumb, have social problems, and
The main idea of the paper is to demonstrates Poe’s “The Black Cat” is not a horror story but a literature confession, which through its terror plots and fabulas reach its optimistic conclusions about human existence. The paper is divided into five parts, which will prove the thesis that “The Black Cat” is optimism rather than horror. First, the essay is going to support that “The Black Cat” is a literary confession. Second, the tension in the tale between fabula and plot will be analyzed. The third part is to explore how literature confession produce a positive change. Then, the next section is to list five forms of evil, and the final portion emphasis “The Black Cat” as an optimistic tale.
Us girls feel personally attacked by the dress code policies simply because even if so much as a centimeter of skin from under our jeans, or a portion of my bra strap is showing we get sent to the office and we are given the lecture of needing to keep a better image of ourselves, and being more conservative about our bodies. Well from coming from a girl's perspective, we feel like we have to bow down to the boys just because they think inappropriate thoughts if any part of a girls skin is showing. Well, we have society and adults to thank for this simply because when boys are caught doing something they aren't supposed to do or watch something they are not supposed to be watching, adults simply say, “Oh boys will be boys.”. Now adults have conditioned boys to think that thinking these thoughts is a way of life and that it is okay to think them just because they are boys. God made us girls the way we are for a reason, why are we letting guys discriminate us women in such a way that we basically have to dress like a boy in order to keep them from thinking these sinful
Tannen, Deborah. You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation. New York: Ballantine, 1990.
For example, in my neighborhood when I was young this one particular girl would constantly pick on me and attempt to fight me for no reason. One day she hit me and hearing my mother in the back of my head “If someone hits you, hit them back”. I easily absorb street behavior by feeling forced to react and fight back. After that, it was clear that I had to internalize the code of the streets or become knowledgeable with its rules because there are always people who are looking for a fight in order to increase their share of respect. In contrast, I disagree with Anderson’s accusations about physical appearances playing an important part in campaigning for respect. Around my neighborhood self-image should be the least of someone's worries; people do not care about other people's opinions based on their flashy clothes. One can still be disrespected if they have on expensive clothing and jewelry. Anderson does make a point when he mentions jackets, sneakers, gold jewelry, reflect not just a person's taste, which tends to be tightly regulated among adolescents of all social classes, but also a willingness to possess things that may require
This paper will discuss the prison gang issue that exists in our correctional system. It will list several powerful gangs that populate the prison and jails around the country. Descriptions of the gangs will be given along with their history and courses of action they take to maintain discipline within its culture. From the criminal justice side the discussion will cover issues of safety, temptation and corruption that happen when dealing with the various gangs. Finally this paper will propose some personal solutions I think would help ease some of the issues correction officers and those in the criminal justice system have to deal with daily.
Throughout history, it can be seen that women were often judged. Many times, this judgement was based upon their appearance. With this in consideration, the fact that newspapers carried stories obtaining specifically to proper women's dress for cycling during the 1890s should not come as a surprise. The idea that women needed to be careful of their appearance in public, especially pertaining to their demeanor and dress, evidently transferred to the Wheelwomen as well. Through this paper, the idea that it was not women’s behaviour in public that was of concern, but the concern surrounded the modesty of their clothing will be examined, along with the thought that this judgment was put forth from the minds of men, rather than those of women. This
As once can see for decades fashion has been used as a “social weapon.” Yes the fashion industry is in part accountable for eating disorders and bullying. Ultimately, we shouldn't allow fashion to play a major role in our society. Not when it impacts in a negative way what others think of each other, and encourages an unrealistic body of what a man or woman should look like. Or simply excludes
Swearing goes back to the Victorian Era where a woman’s right were extremely limited and their rights were given to their spouse. This is where the notion of power of a swear word comes in and where the stereotypes comes in concerning men swearing more than women. Both men and women have a different view on who swears more and when. There are also many factors that affect when and why a person swears more. It can be due to the age, race, ethnicity, and situation. In this paper I will be focusing on gender differences in frequency of swearing. The theories surrounding this topic include but are not limited to the Separate World Hypothesis, Lackoffs’ “Women’s Language” theory, and Howard Gile’s Accommodation theory.
When I was in elementary school conflict regarding the length of boys’ hair or “gang dress” was common, I vividly remember male family members being chastised for their pants falling below their rear end. But those were the days of grunge and gangster rap, parents and schools had been worried for the safety of boys whose role models were criminals and depressives; the current round of moral panic focuses primarily on girls wearing figure-hugging garments, such as leggings and yoga pants, or revealing “too much” skin, as in the case of shorts and tank tops. Just as when I was younger the concern was for the safety of boys, the current conflict over girls’ clothing seems to be similarly aimed at the reactions of male students. The alarm claimed by parents and school officials is that the concerned attire could “distract” other pupils, the unspoken ‘male pupils’ is usually taken as read. Often times wearing shorts or leggings results in a punishment of suspension or the implementation of so called, “shame suits,” while the punishment boys receive for wearing an insulting t-shirt is that they’re made to turn the offending item inside out. How can two crimes that are arguably on par with one another in terms of severity, receive such wildly differing punishments? I believe, as do the students
All throughout time humans have tried to conform to society’s expectations, especially teenagers. In today’s society there are many things that pressure teens to conform to the standards of their peers. One of these pressures is the clothing they wear. The clothing we wear expresses so many different things. Have you ever heard of a teen saying “I want to wear this because so and so who is popular is wearing that”? An example of this would be of the movie Mean Girls, one of the students said “I saw Cady Heron wearing army pants and flip flops so I bought army pants and flip flops.” Or, in the same movie when Cady and Janis cut holes in Regina George’s shirt and everyone then had cut holes in their shirts. Other impacts that clothing has is where you get your clothes from and how much you spend on clothing. Labels shown things like status. Status sometimes can help with who you are friends with or how many friends, especially in private schools or schools that have a huge amount of cliques. In the show Orange is the New Black the character named Pennasatucky said she hated rich people because they bullied her when she was little for not having the nicest clothes and shoes shown in a flash back. There are schools that have uniforms because of this reason. Clothing is a huge pressure on a teen, and they tend to conform to their peers because they want to fit in and not stand out, one of the