Tina Ffey's Book Bossypants

Throughout this chronological telling of Tina Fey’s life in Bossypants, much is argued. With the help of evidence and appeals of many forms, along with certain stylistic choices and organization, they are supported and explained. Many times in Bossypants Tina Fey talks about how different and difficult it is to be a woman in the TV and comedy industry and the expectations of what women should be and how they should act. Many different techniques are executed to do so, and they all work in conjunction to make sure most aspects of what she claims is supported.

Tina Fey uses generalizations about race, gender, race, and sexuality to satirize the double standards women and minorities face in daily life. Fey’s awareness of gender inequality is evident in her use of satire when discussing what she imagines to be her readers reasons for buying the book. The second paragraph of the “Introduction” is Tina Fey addressing those who bought her book “for practical tips on how to make it in a male-dominated workplace.” She gives her readers the following list of instructions:“No pigtails, no tube tops. Cry sparingly.”

Prejudices serve as a mean of division among society, and while their origins can vary from individual to individual, their presence is prevalent and terrifying. Tina Fey’s memoir, Bossypants, has examples of prejudices that target multiple groups of people, and all of these prejudices are deeply rooted in modern society. Bossypants uses Fey’s memories and ideals to reinforce and exhibit harmful stereotypes and prejudices that are all commonly held beliefs in society. As homosexuality has only achieved relative acceptance in recent years, homophobia was stronger and more harmful in Fey’s youth. Tina Fey reflects the ideals of that time period in her writing, but shows it intertwined with her modern understanding by displaying the contrast

Lab Girl, in all honesty was the most boring book I have ever read. I am not much of a reader so it takes a lot for me to like a book. But I forced myself to read this book. To begin with, Hope Jahren talks about the amount of life in the ocean and the amount of life on earth and then asks us to look outside. She makes the statement that there are a lot of man made stuff and if you were able to see something growing you were lucky.

What is s pressured individual? A pressured individual is a person who gets encourage to follow their peers by changing their attitudes, values, or behavior to conform to those of the influencing group. In the article, The Sociology of Leopard Man, Logan Fey’s states a quote that talks about individuals that are pressure from being themselves by things in the society. Fey’s talk more about individuals than Tom Wooldridge who goes by “ Leopard Man .” Although judgement was the main point in Fey’s article.

August Strindberg 's Miss Julie is a naturalist theatrical deconstruction of the socially upheld gender norms of the time period. The play was written in 1888 and premiered in Stockholm the following year. Strindberg himself was supportive of these societal structures, however, modern readings of this play do not necessarily consider the author 's intention. Strindberg 's thought processes in regard to gender were heavily influenced Darwinism, or what is referred to as Darwin Misogyny. Kimberley Hamlin describes Darwin 's views on sex and gender expression in her book From Eve to evolution: Darwin, science and women 's rights in Guilded Age America, explaining that “Darwin 's own views on gender, at least as expressed in his published writings,

In the article “Self-Fulfilling Stereotypes” by Mark Snyder, the various researchers help construct evidence of stereotypes in our society. Theses stereotypes affect both men and women as well as various racial stereotypes. For example, Snyder mentions that college students of the opposites sex were to have a phone conversation with one another. Each of the men were given a picture of the women they were supposedly talking to. When some of the men received a photo of an unattractive female, they predicted they would be awkward, unsociable, and boring (Snyder 543).

The essay, “What I’ve Learned from Men”, by Barbara Ehrenreich is an impressive piece of writing focusing on a significant theme which is still present and is witnessed to this day. The theme that the author discusses is the on-going gender issues shedding light on the differences between men and women. Throughout the essay, Ehrenreich argues about the one thing women need to learn from men: how to be tough. She support this argument by providing a personal experience, taking her back to the time when she didn’t acknowledge the quality of being tough and falling victim to sexual harassment. She then explains this act as “behaving like a lady” and continues to support her claim by stating facts describing how women tend to act nice or “as a lady” by being the ones responsible to keep the conversation with a man going and constantly smiling even when unneeded and even when expressing anger and displeasure.

Workplace violence is emerging as an important safety and health issue in today’s workplace. Workplace violence includes verbal assault, physical assault, and fatalities. In some cases the bully may not realize they are being the tormentor. Sometimes they may come from outside the work place harassing someone at the workplace. This is usually where the fatalities come in.

This eight section article outlines the general patterns Michel Foucault uses to explain femininity and the modernization of power dynamics. The works goes through describing the disciplinary practices modern societies use to construct femininity and how this inflicts an inferior status on those being targeted. This power dynamic aims at regulation which is perpetual and exhaustive. The disciplines described in this piece are the ways in which society boxes women. These concepts are created to target women and submit them into working towards achieving an unattainable standard of beauty.

Feminist literary criticism Pride and prejudice and the scarlet letter implement misogyny and use their own century’s gender roles to criticize the inequality in women. Both the novels see the women as inferior; as on Pride and Prejudice females are seen as a status tool that marries into a higher class and obtains a higher status. The Scarlet letter shuns women by holding a female accountable for her sins, humiliating and punishing them by forcing to wear a red scarlet letter a that lowers their status,gives them a bad look, and negatively affects the first impressions of anyone they meet. There are contrasting and similar differences in their constructive criticism towards women In The Scarlet Letter, there is a lot of examples and evidence