Silfee+Reading+Response+4

I think that what Rich is saying is really important for young people to consider in today's changing world. This piece was written in 1977. Obviously women have made many advancements in the way that they are thought of since then. Men almost see us as equals to themselves, but still not quite. Men still feel as though they are superior to women even though we have proven, since the time that this article was written, that we can do the same things that men can do, and sometimes even better than they can. It's crazy to think about, honestly. I personally don't believe that anyone is better than anyone else because everyone is better than someone at something. This being said, I don't understand how a man could think that just because he is man he's automatically better than a woman. I also found it interesting that, at this time, men thought that being a professor at a women's college was a job that wasn't worthy of their full potential; that they could do much better. I don't know that men still feel this way about teaching at a women's college but I would imagine that some of them do. All I can think of to ask is why. I honestly just don't get it. As for the other reading that we had to do, I was in group one. The reading and the video talked about E.D. Hirsch and his opinion of what American students should be learning about culture and literacy. I can't really say that I necessarily would ever agree with him on this subject. He thinks that all students should be being taught about what was written a century ago, by white make writers who have all passed on. I feel that students should be taught about these writers because they were in fact important to literature in American history. However, I don't think that this is all that students should be taught. Students also need to learn about modern literature and culture. If students are only taught about what things used to be, how are things ever supposed to progress?