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Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Different Perspectives
After reading “Men Growing Up to be Boys” and “The Death of
Pretty” I believe the two authors, both with arguably good points could become
good friends. At dinner they would realize that even though their views are
based on different genders, they still are observing the same thing, that being,
generation by generation people are changing. Not only are we changing but
according to Chaudhry and Archbold changing for the worst. Their points being
that men and women are lowering themselves. Archbold would point out how women
are not striving to be their best self anymore after Chaudhry first brought up
her points on how men have lost their masculinity. They may argue about who
changed first, however. Lakshmi Chaudhry would argue that because of the men lowering
their desire for responsibilities and swaying from traditional roles that woman
had to lower their traditional standards in hopes of one day capturing a man. Archbolds
argument would be the contrary, that women threw away pretty in hopes of being
viewed as hot and men accordingly lost their instincts to protect and defend. Other
than their mild argument of which gender is to blame for what they believe is
an undesirable culture they would still accept and agree with each other’s point of
view.
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I most definitely agree with everything you are saying in your blog entry. If I were to join these two in dinner I do think I would agree with everything they have to say. I think as the generations progressed that the way women see themselves has gotten worse as well as men wanting to "live life" rather then what the ideal man is supposed to do. I would talk to them about how women are so worried about finding love or trying to get noticed that they forget what really matters. I would also speak about how I believe that men have also lost a lot of respect for women as the years progressed. I feel like a large percent of the men in this society also walk away from their family instead of sticking by their side.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your statement that each author would have a differing opinion on which gender changed first. I think its possible the way each place more blame to one gender more than the other may cause an argument, but it would most likely be beneficial opening them to different views over a similar topic. They may look from the other genders perspective more as they each seem to focus more specifically on one gender than the other. Neither seemed too stubborn though so i'm sure they would be able to reach an agreeable conclusion.
ReplyDeleteI love your outlook on how this dinner would go with these two authors. I would have to agree with how you bring up that the reason these changes may have occurred is because one gender may have triggered the other into changing in some ways. I think that with this conversation I would be able to both agree and argue some points on both sides. I would be able to see both authors point of views and understand that they have strong views as to why these changes have changed either it being because of a reaction or because tradition is not treated like how it used to be treated.
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