A Woman's Image
In Deborah Tannen “There is no Unmarked Woman,” the underlying idea is that in society it is typical that there are standards for women. Women are stereotyped by the way they dress, the hairstyles they wear, or even if they choose to wear make-up or not. Tannen argues that society has marked women to meet certain standards. It seems as if everything a woman does there is a story to follow it. That shows that women have classifications no matter what. It makes me feel that with women it typical to know there style right off hand.
I agree with Tannen, with the fact that woman are marked. It seems that gender roles are very stereotypical in our society. Women are expected to fix themselves up when they are doing the littlest things. With men it’s very different. They don’t have to present themselves in certain ways that women do. It seems like; if a woman doesn’t do any of these things then she is not living up to society’s standards. Even though every woman has her own style they’re all are marked in some way! How do you feel about being marked or unmarked? Do you think that you are considered to be apart of the stereotype and the role gender play
4 comments:
women may be unmarked, but so are men, but in different ways. When i wrote my in-class essay, i pointed out that men can be identified by their names in the professional world, which may be stereotypical, but true.
I think everyone is marked even if they don’t notice it. For example, black males that wear their pants below the waist, white females with blond hair, people with glasses, etc. The power to unmark ourselves lies in our hands, so you can either use or lose it.
I feel that in some since, it is not all that bad to be comsidered "marked". I agree with the few in here that said that everyone is "marked" in some way, both men and women. Some guys that I know are just the same way as the girls I know about how they dress and how to do their hair. Personally, I would rather
be "marked" in some ways than be just "plain".
I agree with Edikan on this one. Tannen did not take culture into account when she wrote the essay. For example, men of other cultures are marked in some way or another.
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