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Let's Talk About Gender, Baby by Wendy Kaminer

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In society of time race, feminism, and masculinity has always been a problem. "Let's Talk About Gender, Baby," by Wendy Kaminer: An editor; argues why promote the use of the word woman as an adjective. Her concerns are how women are stereotyped in the work force. She discusses that gender should not be a factor when getting a job Through the use of ethical appeal; Kaminer demonstrates how people misuse the words "sex  and "gender . Writing Like a White Guy, by Jaswinder Bolina: a college professor; argues that race is what America see's. Through the use of Emotional, logical and ethical appeal he shows his audience how America treats different races. These two articles simply tell how equality is not enforced in society. They show how people are treated differently because of race and if they are man or woman. Kaminer begins her article by stating that Feminists have long been ridiculed for their efforts to purge sexism from language by using words like chairperson and avoiding the use of male pronouns as universal signifiers of both sexes. She uses emotional appeal to say she's grateful that common usage no longer completely ignores the existence of women with words like mankind. Because of how society sees it, she feels that when a woman does the same job as a man, they get labeled. An example she uses to prove this are there are "women doctors , and "women senators  but no "men doctors  or "men senators  although we do have "man servants . This example shows the human perspective of how we view women and men in today's workforce. In our eyes doctors, policemen, construction workers, mechanics are male jobs. But in reality they are not. The reason why is because statistics show that more men have those types of jobs than women. That's why women get stereotyped for that certain job. Kaminer uses statistics from different court cases as logical appeals to prove that there is gender discrimination in the work force. A 1989 case Price Waterhouse vs. Hopkins shows how a woman was passed over for partnerships because she wasn't lady like. The court ruled in her favor because of gender discrimination. In 1998 there was another case where a young man named Joseph Oncale, a former rig worker who claimed to be highly sexualized, physically assaulted and threatened with rape by his male coworkers. He was abused because of gender discrimination and not sex discrimination. Kaminer uses logical

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