September 1, 2017
Liza Donnelly
4 Goldfield Rd.
Honolulu, HI 96815
Dear Ms.Donnelly, I write this letter after having just studied your work regarding women’s rights recently in english class, and having watched your TED talk regarding your career as a cartoonist and why you shifted into making political cartoons defending women’s rights. The difference between you and all other women rights activists is that you perform your activism shrewdly,using humour and satire. I feel like this type of activism is what inevitably changes a society. Through this type of activism, various issues can be made a lot more digestible to the average person who would not in other circumstances go out of his/her way to research an issue. Gender prejudice …show more content…
In university, the majority of people taking the humanities are women . While the majority of people taking engineering, maths and other science-based course are men. Your cartoon “impressive resume, but can you cook?” is a favourite of mine, as it describes this phenomenon perfectly. Even though the women has a great resume and great qualifications, the employer ignores that and skips to what he deems a more important question for a woman, and that is whether she is able to cook. I think this represents perfectly a portion of our society today, not a small one by any means, that still believes in the traditional gender roles of a man and a woman, the woman absolutely has no place outside of her kitchen, all that is expected of her is to cook. Another cartoon of yours titled “Are you hiring me because i’m qualified,cheap,or qualified and cheap?” resonates with this problem of gender occupational bias in this picture, the interview is presumably occurring at a company with a high status, as the office is on top of a skyscraper overlooking what looks like new york, this is not some low-status job the woman is applying to, she
Liza Donnelly
4 Goldfield Rd.
Honolulu, HI 96815
Dear Ms.Donnelly, I write this letter after having just studied your work regarding women’s rights recently in english class, and having watched your TED talk regarding your career as a cartoonist and why you shifted into making political cartoons defending women’s rights. The difference between you and all other women rights activists is that you perform your activism shrewdly,using humour and satire. I feel like this type of activism is what inevitably changes a society. Through this type of activism, various issues can be made a lot more digestible to the average person who would not in other circumstances go out of his/her way to research an issue. Gender prejudice …show more content…
In university, the majority of people taking the humanities are women . While the majority of people taking engineering, maths and other science-based course are men. Your cartoon “impressive resume, but can you cook?” is a favourite of mine, as it describes this phenomenon perfectly. Even though the women has a great resume and great qualifications, the employer ignores that and skips to what he deems a more important question for a woman, and that is whether she is able to cook. I think this represents perfectly a portion of our society today, not a small one by any means, that still believes in the traditional gender roles of a man and a woman, the woman absolutely has no place outside of her kitchen, all that is expected of her is to cook. Another cartoon of yours titled “Are you hiring me because i’m qualified,cheap,or qualified and cheap?” resonates with this problem of gender occupational bias in this picture, the interview is presumably occurring at a company with a high status, as the office is on top of a skyscraper overlooking what looks like new york, this is not some low-status job the woman is applying to, she