Hi everyone. I know I haven't been around much lately. Between all the kids sports activies & getting registered for summer courses I have been very busy. I signed up for an accelerated Advanced Rhetoric course that I'm a week late in starting so I guess for me it's an accerated-accelerated advanced rhetoric course

Anywho, I have my first assignment. It's a 3 page paper on which one of the sexes I feel has "suffered" more from these stereotypes. I know the logical thing to do with a female professor is to say that women have it worse. However since it is a Rhetoric course...in my typical out of the box thinking, i am toying with the idea of suggesting men have it worse.

If I can babble for 3 pages & make it sound "reasonable" the paper will definantly stand out.

So here's the stereo types that are presented as a starting point to contemplate. I thought it would be a great thread for discussion here too.

Women: that they are intellectually inferior to men. that women should be attractive. women belong in the house. Strong, independent women are "*****y". That women who act upon sexual desires are "loose". women are suppose to be passive, submissive, demure, cooperative, nurturing, polite, etc.

Men: Given a chance we would all be "*****s". We must be independent & aggressive. That we must crave violence. If we don't love football, power tools & cars with big engines. We are suppose to be the breadwinners for the family.

This seems like some kind of sick cosmic joke that I don't quite get yet that this is MY 1st assignment.

LK