Women Are Not By Themselves

In the essay “There Is No Unmarked Woman” by Deborah Tannen she thoroughly discusses how women are marked. Although what stuck out the most to me in the essay is how she speaks as though men aren’t marked.

Whether it is by choice or not men are marked in many ways. Many times it is by ethnicity or just by their social class. Not to mention men that struggle with what they want to be male or female. Men are also marked just like women when it comes down to their style of dress.

Especially when trying to impress someone, like a young lady or perhaps her parents. A man just can’t appear any kind of way because your first impression is the one that matters the most. Only because a woman isn't going to be interested in a man that can't take care of himself which is oftentimes demonstrated in the way that he dresses. I will say that many women don’t care about how they are dressed. So it is possible for a woman to get dressed and to go on about her business to me it’s a choice of morals.