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Language, Gender, Culture :silhouettes: - Coggle Diagram

- - - - “The education system has become culturally cohesive, rewarding and encouraging a certain sort of person: one who is nurturing, collaborative, disciplined, neat, studious, industrious and ambitious.” (Brooks 6)
      - “They redefined what it was to be a good miner away from this very hyperbolic masculine image,” she said. “A good miner was someone who cared for their co-workers. They were responsible. These were issues that women could also embody.”
  - - - “she listened to the men ... discussing their plans to [participate in and] make a political statement” during the Million Man March. In what she terms “her best graduate-student speak,” she expressed her belief that the march perpetuated the oppression of black women and gays.”
    - - “the barbers and many customers assume that Eric is gay.” As a result, unlike other regulars who become key players in the discourse community, Mills writes that Eric “is silenced as an agenda setter... When [he] would initiate conversations, the men would turn away, ignore him, or patronize him for a short while only to move quickly to other topics.” Instead of engaging Eric, they would “act annoyed by his mannerisms and voice.”
    - - "Then he’d rebel. If the official high school culture was über-nurturing, he’d be über-crude.If it valued cooperation and sensitivity, he’d devote his mental energies to violent video games and aggressive music.”(Brooks 5)
    - - “Although many of the earliest factory jobs in places like textile mills were held by women who could be spared from the farm, men reserved many of the highest-status, highest paying jobs. “It isn’t new,” Professor Kessler-Harris said of sexual harassment and male resentment. “It’s as old as male culture. The men assumed the best jobs, the skilled jobs, were theirs. If a woman dared to enter them, God help her.”
- - - - “My father, sacrificing owning nothing, that I may have everything
        My father, walked a daily nightmare so that I may live out my dreams”
      - “I want a wife to keep track of the children’s doctor and dentist appointments. And to keep track of mine, too. I want a wife to make sure my children eat properly and are kept clean. I want a wife who will wash the children’s clothes and keep them mended. I want a wife who is a good nurturant attendant to my children”
    - - “The information age rewards people who mature early, who are verbally and socially sophisticated, who can control their impulses. Girls may, on average, do better at these things.” (Brooks 11)
    - - "“I want a wife who will keep my house clean. A wife who will pick up after my children, a wife who will pick up after me. I want a wife who will keep my clothes clean, ironed, mended, replaced when need be, and who will see to it that my personal things are kept in their proper place so that I can find what I need the minute I need it.”
  - - - "But it is particularly stark in the blue-collar jobs that once scored a kind of manly trifecta: They paid a breadwinner’s wage, embodied strength and formed the backbone of the American economy. "
    - - “Where poppas are rolling stones
        Down the hills of women's backsides And when he’s gone
        All he’s left us
        Was alone”
      - “You did not ask me to spell deadbeat sir..
        But if you want dead beat here it is
        F-a-t-h-e-r, d-a-d-d-y, p-o-p, p-o-p-s, if you want the slang”
      - “If, by chance, I find another person more suitable as a wife than the wife I already have, I want the liberty to replace my present wife with another one. Naturally, I will expect a fresh new life; my wife will take the children and be solely responsible for them so that I am left free.“
    - - “ they talked casually but passionately about sports, basketball especially, with the deep resonance that reverberates in my hungry ears. Many spoke a spicy black lingo, the hip linguistics that even white kids from Iowa crave.”