Stienem in Supremacy Crimes gives her thoughts on why at type of person, white heterosexual males, are killing in mass more often than other groups. I thought this article was interesting because it was a situation that I truly had not ever thought about before and she make some very interesting points. She does not give many concrete facts but dies provide examples. I thought the most interesting part of her work was her final suggestions that, “just as we as society have begun to raise our daughters more like sons--more like whole people--we must begin to raise our sons more like our daughters--that is, to value empathy as well as hierarchy; to measure success by other people's welfare as well as their own.” This quote gives a direction for people to aspire to which if people follow can make a change in these tragedies.
Enloe in Whom Do You Take Seriously talks about the way women and men are seen differently when they speak out on a topic and makes interesting observations about the way that women are not as respected. She also touches on many things we discussed when talking about workers in foreign countries and the abhorrent conditions they work in and she adds more to the dimension we discussed of women not being able to leave their jobs even if they are feeling uncomfortable especially with regard to inappropriate sexual conduct by superiors.
Jocelyn,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that Stienem's quote is extremely optimistic and a great suggestion to closing the inequalities between male and female treatment. Stienem suggestion give solution that will address the core of the problem. Given that in our society females are more and more possessing male behaviors (as seen as acceptable) society must also address the other end of the spectrum--allowing males to possess female traits. Changing and widening the system of behaviors associated to genders will break down some gender stereotypes.
I also agree with Stienem's quote and that it is very optimistic to reduce the amount of inequalities between the treatment of males and females. I also agree with Jia that females are in fact possessing male behaviours that are beginning to become acceptable in society. In my opinion I feel like this is affecting the overall male population and they are becoming more concerned with the fact that women are gaining more power. The reason for this is because with the gain of power women are gaining this must suggest that men are either maintaining the same amount of power in society or their levels of power are declining.
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