Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Gender roles.Can they be switched?

"If you loved me,Owen!If you loved me,you wouldn't go-.You wouldn't go if you loved me( Irving,John pg.176)"This is what Hester says to Owen right after she "Wrestled him out of his chair--she held his head in the towel in a headlock and she lay on her side across his chest, pinning him to the kitchen floor, while she began to pound him in the face with the fist of her free hand(pg176)" This is a switch in gender roles because when you generally think of domestic violence, you think of the man beating up the women- not the other way around.In reality this type of violence shouldn't happen in a relationship.This is just one example gender roles being switched in the book. Another example of switched gender roles is a married couple, the Dowlings, because "their sexual roles might be so 'reversed' as to make childbearing difficult - and their attendance to Little League games was marked by a constant disapproval of the sport: that little girls were not allowed to play in the Little League was an example of sexual stereotyping that exercised the Dowlings' humorlessness and the fury.(pg. 240)"In this example the gender roles being switched is something appreciated by some, because its true some sports are only played by men, but that doesn't mean that women are incapable just that the men and women in this world think women can't.

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