Blog Post #3

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“I Want a Wife”

To summarize Judy Brady’s essay: a wife’s purpose is to make her husband’s life easy at her own expense.   Brady shows through exaggeration how she believes wives are taken advantage of by their spouses.  In her opinion, men’s lives are made easy by the effort of the wives; the wife is virtually a fulltime maid, nanny, mistress, and whatever else the man may need or want.  Brady is raising awareness of what she views as a gross injustice; husband and wife’s positions in the family are not equal (360-362).

“Men--It’s in Their Nature”

In summary, manly traits are not bad, and boys and girls tend to naturally have different strengths and weaknesses that are common to their gender.  Also, equality does not mean that those differences disappear.  Sommers makes a case for the benefit of natural gender differences.  She does not consider a boy’s natural tendency for violence and competition to be a detriment but rather an opportunity for service in areas that women are not commonly drawn to, as long as the boy is trained and instilled with proper values and morals (365-368).

After looking at both of these essays, I have decided to choose "Men--It's in their nature."  I chose this particular one for my analysis essay because it more closely aligns with my own opinion on the matter.

Works Cited

Brady, Judy. "I Want a Wife." Kennedy et al. 360-62.

Kennedy, X.J., Dorthy M. Kennedy, and Jane E. Aaron. The Bedford Reader. 11th ed. Boston: Bedford, 2012. Print.

Sommers, Christina Hoff. "Men--It's in Their Nature." Kennedy et al. 365-68.