Demonic Males

The article that i really enjoyed was Demonic Males. Besides the fact that it was full of interesting information a lot of it was open to interpretation. I think that the author obviously had many valid points but she seemed a little reluctant, to when women were portrayed in a dominant way, to accept that. I think women kind of live in a double standard. In one way they want to be treated equally as men but on the other hand they do not want to go to war and they want the fairy tale relationship where a man is dominant and provides for the female. Im not saying this is how it is for everyone, their are plenty of women brave enough to go to war and their are women who are the dominant ones in a relationship. I just thing we should stop being so hypocritical. I think no matter what happens men and women are always going to be viewed differently and that is neither a positive or a negative, its just the way it is. I would hardly say men are Demonic, at least not all of them. 

Muriel Smith 

Unfair Compensation

Some of the thoughts and ideas in the Demonic Males article seemed off to me. I could see how they were all rooted in fact and different ideas but it was hard for me to wrap my head around how these things could be considered okay. American society has changed over the years growing more excepting of everyone over time, laws have been set up to fight age, ethnic, and gender discrimination for jobs, woman have the right to vote and be seen as equal. But in other countries woman are still considered property, a slave in a way. I knew that this was true but hadn’t seen the extent of it all until reading this excerpt.

I was shocked when I read the story about the !Kung woman and what had happened to her daughter. It’s bad enough that she was married off at such a young age but to die at the hand of her husband over the given matter does not seem right to me at all. Shouldn’t everyone be far passed a woman’s life being worth five goats? Five goats are not going to replace a daughter, a sister or a friend it is a poor attempt at compensation, one that could seem insulting in away.

To me this idea is morally wrong, maybe the question shouldn’t be over if only humans possess morality but if every human does. Its matters like these that make me think that Morality is at least somewhat based on social surroundings, what you are taught are right and wrong. Because to these people that was a fair price to pay but it me it is not.

Ariel M.

Demonic Males

Because the Mentor session I am a part of we chose Demonic Males as one of our articles to do our presentation on. My thoughts on this article are fairly simple. Patriarchy is the leader in most cultures and seems like it always will be. To some cultures, killing a woman can be cleaned off your plate by exchanging 5 goats. How is that morally correct? It can't be, but it is in the !Kung civilization. See, woman are expendable in this Patriarchy it seems. Men go to war and woman go if men wish but most societies restrict woman from any form of fighting. There have been some successful female war heroes in some fights but they are not talked about. Compared to men, woman are just another "tool" that we can use to survive. I don't think this is true or should be in any way. If anything, woman should be in charge, because after all they are the nurturers of our offspring.

In the article, the authors ask the question "When women become as strong as men, in other words, will they be inclined to be as violent?" I'm sure they will be as inclined to be violent but I doubtfully they will use violence to express them selves in such a way. Even some of the larger woman today aren't violent one bit. As a gender? I don't think woman could be as violent as men, not because they don't have it in them, but because men have been violent since the beginning and it'd be hard for woman to catch up.

-Spencer