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Are Women Really Weak?

By: Marcella Susan


Source: ------ngawur

Most men call them the weaker sex, some say they are lazy for comfort while others
conclude they complain about every little effort or services they render. These are the
descriptions of women by our male folk

Weaker sex indeed! It is pertinent to note that women contribute meaningfully to the
upkeep of their homes, so why must their efforts, no matter how little not be noticed,
appreciated and rewarded accordingly.

No woman sits down at home nowadays as full time or centre table house wife. They toil
day and night to supplement the effort of their husbands.

They carry available loads, peel all the orange during the season and travel distances, by
night and in rickety vehicles to buy items to sell for survival. It is very unfair to
womanhood that their efforts are not commended.

This same weaker sex wraps babies on their back while performing their domestic duties.
There are families who live in storey building and have no regular supply of water, it is
the weaker sex that place buckets on their heads to get water for household use.

In a typical African society, those are the obligation a woman owes her family. A typical
African culture demands that the women sit at home and take care of the family. She is
the last to be considered for formal education. The man goes to the farm or to the stream
to fish while she tidies up the home and prepares any available food for the man or
possibly takes it to the farm.

Cultivation has introduced to the society a culture of education and job opportunities for
the women. Those who for one reason or the other could not acquire education go into
trading.

Women are seen every day with babies wrapped on their backs selling one thing or the
other yet they are the weaker sex.

For no reason would she return home after much “blessing” from the sun and the rain,
and refuse her man his meal. She must run into the kitchen to prepare his meal. Yet, they
are the weaker sex.

If it were possible for men to carry pregnancies. I believe they should be given a chance
so that the pains would be felt by both parents

Women are the weaker sex, yet they move all movables during pregnancy. Indeed a
woman is full of energy but because men are like babies who never grow, no amount of
effort put up by the woman satisfies them. Instead they keep saying that women are the
weaker sex.

Analysis

It is a good article that contains many satires. I guess that the writer is a feminist,
or at least a sexist, who stands to fight the injustice among men and women.
She opens this article by a questioned title; “Are Women Really Weak?” For me it
sounds like a rhetoric words that interest any people who feel the same but does not have
any idea to reveal it. Question sentence is used to show that such a question is not
impossible to answer.
In the opening paragraph, the writer describes more: “…Most men call them the
weaker sex, some say they are lazy for comfort while others conclude they complain
about every little effort or services they render…” From those sentences, we can see how
the writer starts to challenge man to read or at least to reconsider their behavior toward
woman. She said it explicitly for most the ‘wrong’ things and thoughts done by man to
the woman.
In this article, the author constantly uses the term, “weaker sex” just to show that
in this case, man and woman are extremely differentiated by the male folk, or say,
patriarch society. She used the term ‘the male folk’ to make her statement clear, that the
kind of society treating woman very badly is a patriarch society.
In the second paragraph, she tells the readers that “It is pertinent to note that
women contribute meaningfully to the upkeep of their homes.”
The word ‘pertinent’ is used to stress the relevancy of some forgotten meaningful
things, done by woman in all her lifetime, and she found no reason why woman is still
underestimated and repressed by man. She states it “so why must their efforts, no matter
how little not be noticed, appreciated and rewarded accordingly” In the end of the
sentences, again she inquires the readers.
Further she writes, “No woman sits down at home nowadays as full time or centre
table house wife. They toil day and night to supplement the effort of their husbands.”
Take a look to the first sentence, “no woman sits down at home nowadays as full
time or centre table house wife” She even generalizes her idea of women’s hard life by
using the word “no”, so she assumes that all women are on the same boat. All women are
experience the same things, though in the real life, this sort of idea is hardly acceptable.
This is generalization and no guarantee at all that all women experience the same things.
“They carry available loads, peel all the orange during the season and travel
distances, by night and in rickety vehicles to buy items to sell for survival.” She
constantly gives the examples to her readers, the ‘sadness’ of being a woman. After done
many things for the goodness of family, woman even does not deserve to get a single
praise! “It is very unfair to womanhood that their efforts are not commended.”
Next paragraph will tell use how the writer can skillfully use the sentiment of the
term “weaker sex”; This same weaker sex wraps babies on their back while performing
their domestic duties. There are families who live in storey building and have no regular
supply of water, it is the weaker sex that place buckets on their heads to get water for
household use.
To convince the reader, the author takes an example from Africa. “In a typical
African society, those are the obligation a woman owes her family. A typical African
culture demands that the women sit at home and take care of the family.”
It is a perfect example skillfully taken by the author. A total patriarchy society
that consider woman as almost nothing but meaningless tool that does not really need any
education. “She is the last to be considered for formal education”. She goes to expose the
passivity of woman there by telling that; “the man goes to the farm or to the stream to
fish while she tidies up the home and prepares any available food for the man or possibly
takes it to the farm.”
From this point, we can see that one of the goals of the author is to tell the world
the common face of the woman there, “Women are seen every day with babies wrapped
on their backs selling one thing or the other yet they are the weaker sex. She adds, ”for no
reason would she return home after much “blessing” from the sun and the rain, and refuse
her man his meal. She must run into the kitchen to prepare his meal. Yet, they are the
weaker sex.”
The last sentence becomes more challenging for the reader to consider; “if it were
possible for men to carry pregnancies. I believe they should be given a chance so that the
pains would be felt by both parents.” This statement implies nothing but a total challenge
for man, not to violate his nature, but to, again, reconsider his view toward ‘the weaker
sex’. She uses the analogy of pregnancy as the main point to reveal the inner strength of
woman. However, in some extents, this view might be seen from the wrong side as the
restraining patriarch culture that constantly praises and encourages woman to be much
and much ‘woman’, or in plainer words; to always be the second creature after man.
This final statement strengthens her view: “Women are the weaker sex, yet they
move all movables during pregnancy. Indeed a woman is full of energy but because men
are like babies who never grow, no amount of effort put up by the woman satisfies them.
Instead they keep saying that women are the weaker sex.” This closing words might
concludes all her views, perhaps she just demands gender equality through her writing,
but implicitly, equality she brings might not be differentiated from emancipation.

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