Sanders Essay

Miguel Cuevas

Mr. Ryder 763

Sanders Essay

Men, and Feminist thought

Feminist, what is the composition of this thinking?

To me its equal rights to women in all aspects rights, work, and politics. But its deeper then this. Sanders a writer best known some of his essays like Paradise of Bombs and Teffarium. Also he wrote The Men We Carry In Our Minds were he comes to a self-dilemma. When he meets a different class of women they question his feminist thinking. “Toward women I feel something more confused, a snarl of shame, envy, wary tenderness, and amazement” (Sanders). Although who are the women that he meets in college. How do they differ from Sander other then gender? If there is difference witch side has true feminist thought?

The female college colleges, first how were they brought up? “Here I met for the first time young men who had assumed from birth that they would lead lives of comfort and power” (Sanders). Along with the young men were also women that told him he was not a feminist. That him and all the men had taken there privileges. These women grew up well taken care of they never say there fathers struggle, be in pain from work, or die in the army. “They joined the army, stood in line for jobs in the smoky plants, helped build highways” (Sanders). They only saw the wealthy fathers go out and work, but had never witnessed middle or low class men’s jobs. This feat alone changes their views of man; therefore they see certain glamour, joy, and making big money. As apposed to there mothers usually at home raising the kids tending to the home. So they saw sanders, as a man competing for the jobs the women wanted, the jobs there fathers had.

Sanders grew up in a low middle class area were all the men worked in factories or were steelworkers, hard labor jobs. “The bodies of the men I knew were twisted and maimed in ways visible and invisible. The nails of their hands were black and split, the hands tattooed with scars” (Sanders). These jobs...