All three of the short essays I’ve chosen to analyze deal with people being used for their race or gender. Aburawa discusses the scanty advertisements in some countries (like America) using women’s sex appeal to sell items. Pozner talks about Tyra using ethnicities for various contests. Finally, Hvistendahl talks about societies biases towards sons and the abortions women go through to have a son not a daughter, therefore using the mother with the sole purpose of providing sons. These three articles all have centralized key concepts of people being used for their gender and/or race.
To start off, in Arwa Aburwa’s article “Veiled Threat: The Guerrilla Graffiti of Princess Hijab”, she discusses her belief that women (and even men …show more content…
The short essay talks about the amount of girls that have been aborted solely because they weren’t sons. Therefore, only using the mother to produce sons. In many cultures sons are almost worshipped in my opinion. It is a common belief that sons are the only way for the family to pass down their name, and legacy. Men are stereotyped as being the bread winners, providers, protectors, and all around the favorite gender. This is flawed in my opinion as women are the reason the population can procreate. The cons to being a woman outweigh the cons of being a man. Women carry the children, bare the pain, and get no credit for it. Their bodies are used to proved strong men so that they may find women. China is facing a problem from the one child rule and they would only “keep” the sons to pass on the names. This gave many same sex couples or infertile couples many opportunities to adopt the abandoned female babies. Now that there are very little female Chinese girls, they fear the race will be greatly reduced in the coming decades. This is an example of using women for their bodies being wrong, not just morally, but also by population standards as