“Will Women Still Need Me?” by Barbara Ehrenreich in the “The Writer 's Presence A Pool of Readings Eight Edition” page five hundred ninety eight. This is an argumentative writing that author claimed that is an issue in between both sexes; man and woman. This topic immediately made me pondering for questions like: Is that anything wrong with the relationship in the current society? Is author has a personal relationship or marriage issue, therefore she questioned about the need of man in woman’s life? In my opinion, a relationship either marriage or not, it should not to be overly burdensome. Example: there is many restrictions and too much commitment in a relationship- Wife expects husband to take care of all the household expenses, husband expects woman/wife to stay home and be a full time housewife to take care the house chores, boyfriend expects the girlfriend to has to male friends all and etcetera. In the essay, author was actually working and evaluating on the possibilities of woman and man live separately. She pointed out that all our needs and wants required the cooperation of the other sex, as such make a living, raise children and having sexual intercourse. However, she also mentioned that our technology is very advance, therefore individual sex will be able to live completely independent with one another. Firstly, I consider there is so many conjectures in the essay, example: Big divorce, “between 2340 and 2387: Nato will be force to intervene in Custody Wars that breaks out between The Polygamous Republic of Utah and the Free Zone of the Central Southwest” ( Ehrenreich 600), Gender sorting by Guy Land and Gal Land, and etcetera. They are just purely hypothesis or imagination of Ehrenreich; honestly, I determined them as author’s personal point of views rather than fact. On another hand, author has also included some factual based supporting evidences to support her argument, as such: impeachment fiasco’s result of difficulty to restigmatize extramarital of sex, Tulane University sociologist Laura Sanchez’s statement of ultimate effect of covenant marriage and gay right movement. Obviously, the author aim to project her idea makes sense for her readers; therefore, she used the factual supporting evidences right after the first paragraph that was her hypothesis: “This COULD BE the century when the sexes go their separate ways” (Ehrenreich 598). However, we really cannot evade the fact that man and woman somewhat meant to be together or need each other neither in a relationship nor in daily life. We are human; we are the finest creatures in the earth, which innate with emotion, need of commutation and interaction, seriously living by gender sorting is not entirely impossible, but I do not agree it is necessary. Regardless, the same sex relationship is still cannot avoid the problem of extramarital of sex, unless we decided to only interact as friends, no deep emotion involves and no further development of any friendship. Even though the author has used hypothesis, bring out issues and the factual supporting evidences for her writing, but I just do not see the expected response at this point- agreement. Probably any man or woman who has an issue in the relationship now likely agreed; after all any reasonable person will has doubt on this claim whether is it a necessary or fundamental need. In my opinion, I have to admit that author has a unique voice of writing
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Both essay are very similar because they are authors’ personals’ point of views. Their claims are focusing on the issue between genders; woman and man. In addition, both authors’ voices are extremely different, example: in term of the solution to their claims, Mary has included her personal experience in her essay. However, Ehrenreich was only focus on her personal opinion without sharing any information about her life. In Mary’s essay, there is a lot communication, initiation of understanding and compromising between woman and man, and the result after it. The writer’s own gender does affect me in some cases especially when I start to realize they overly bias or emotional on certain gender issue or event. In my conclusion, it is very important to develop the credibility on writing because our writing do influence readers in some aspect of their life and it supposed to be non-bias and factual writing especially in argumentative
Both essay are very similar because they are authors’ personals’ point of views. Their claims are focusing on the issue between genders; woman and man. In addition, both authors’ voices are extremely different, example: in term of the solution to their claims, Mary has included her personal experience in her essay. However, Ehrenreich was only focus on her personal opinion without sharing any information about her life. In Mary’s essay, there is a lot communication, initiation of understanding and compromising between woman and man, and the result after it. The writer’s own gender does affect me in some cases especially when I start to realize they overly bias or emotional on certain gender issue or event. In my conclusion, it is very important to develop the credibility on writing because our writing do influence readers in some aspect of their life and it supposed to be non-bias and factual writing especially in argumentative