I think that the argument in the "Woman As Other" story is that woman are seen as the “other” people in
society; that men are just assumed as the go-to people and when someone is a woman, they are that
much different just because of their gender. Because of this gender, women are
set back in society, don’t have as many opportunities or are seen as lower than men in
society. “The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities,”
states Aristotle within the paper. I think that this quote really describes what the main portion of the paper is about. I can connect this to my final paper based on the theme of
WRA 140, Women in America. The argument presented within this paper is a common perception that society has had of
women for many centuries. Throughout the duration of the semester, I have
seen this in the literature that we have read, such as in Pride and Prejudice.
I could not agree more that this argument coincides with Pride and Prejudice and the point that women are always seen as dependent human beings when in fact that does not need to be the case at all!
ReplyDeleteGreat points and I really liked the quote you picked out (: