Corwin Harrison
Professor SoYoung Park
HU 250 Women’s Studies
23 January 2017
I found Andrea Dworkin’s speech to be very powerful and thought provoking. I found it strange but not surprising to read that one of the men in the crowd that listened to her speech actually threatened her, even after talking about restoring humanity and equality to women. It was also interesting to see that on her website that she believed men still had humanity within them but were taught to neglect and ignore it. "How does it happen that the male child whose sense of life is so vivid that he imparts humanity to sun and stone changes into the adult male who cannot grant or even imagine the common humanity of women?” I believe this has something to do with how children are reared and taught to consider others to be lesser or only fit for certain roles. For example in her mention of politics and fascism she mentions the Right’s view of the woman’s true domestic role in the form of a political cartoon. “It was a big picture of Ronald Reagan as a cowboy with a big hat and a gun. And it said: ‘A gun in every holster; a pregnant woman in every home. Make America a man again.’” As soon as I read that sentence it made a worrisome echo in my mind of a campaign slogan.
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