The Men We Carry In Our Minds

After reading the essay, I came to find that Scott made a very compelling arguement on the contrast between the lives of men and women. For example, when he descibes the back breaking labor that most men have to go through and the way that it affects their bodies. He is correct in the sense that most women will never have to go through things like that, but I disagree with him that mens lives are so much harder than men. He makes points about men who go to war and die for their country and he explains how women don't have to worry about that struggle. But what about when the husbands of those woman go to war and leave their wives to maintain the house hold, watch the children, work to make ends meat for her children, sow the feilds, and take care of everything while her husbands away. What about that, Yes women do not have to go to war, but when they are left alone to fend for themselves in a world that mostly revolves around a man, its almost like they are put into a war to survive. He also states that when he attended college he had a women say to him that men were guilty of having all the joys and privledges of the earth for themselves. He responds to this accurately, but he didnt look at the whole picture. He didnt think about how women couldn't vote and men could. How women were not considered equal to men, when they are just as capeable of doin the same things that men can do. Lastly, he also doesnt take in to account all the things that men put women through. For eample, treating their wives like they are dogs and beatin because they arent obeying their husband, or what about men who dont have a job and rely on the women to make the money. Even though he did comment on the fact that men take from their wives and daughters he missed a lot of other key points about what women have to go through and what men do not.