- Allison writes about the female perspective on how men and women are portrayed in her life by saying “Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different. Men eat themselves up believing they have to be the thing they have been made.” By saying that the women she grew up with limited their choices only thinking about their husbands, baby’s, and family when they could have done more by continuing their education or working and living more freely. As for the men she remembers her cousins transition from a boy then turning themselves like everyone else, ” …hard faced men. Their eyes pulled in and closed over. Their smiles became sharp, their hands always open and ready for a fight.” The men think they must be tough with a poker face at all times and and protect their families, even if it means hurting them (at least in Allison’s perspective).
Professor Laura Westengard
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I completely agree with you. I like that you pointed the cousins transition. For the women I also agree that they were limited because of not ending their education.
i agree with you Anwar, i like you used the example about Allison cousins transition. i agreed that both were limited, women were limited to certain thing, just were able to do their husband, baby and family; they were able to play the housewife and that all not letting them enjoy their self, i also believe it was also for their lack of education. for men for society believing that they have to be what they have been made, plays the role a men is suppose to do whether is wrong or right