Why Men Still Can T Have It All Analysis

Many people have different perspectives about who can have the balance between their houses and jobs. In “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” Anne-Marie Slaughter makes a point in her essay which is that women cannot have it all. However, in “Why Men Still Can’t Have It All,” Richard Dorment responds to her essay with a different opinion saying that men cannot have it all, and he makes arguments to prove his opinion. To understand his opinion, we are going to look at his points, how did he make the points, and my opinion on his arguments. First of all, Dorment makes many points in his essay responding to Slaughter essay. He starts by trying to show that men and women have equal opportunities, and there is not a gender advantageous in 2013. …show more content…
His judgmental tone can be seen on many places in his essay through his choices of words. He used “long and windy” when he described a quote of “Why Women Can’t Have It All.” He also used the word “paleolithic” when he described the people who think that the man who takes six weeks of paid leave for new fathers is “acting like a women.” His logical fallacies can be also seen when he tries to make an argument or a point. His first logical fallacies was sentimental appeal. The way he used it was by describing a baby with “… ten fuzzy fingers and ten fuzzy toes and a tiny crescent-moon mouth…”(697). He used the baby description to get the attention of the readers and makes them agree with his argument that men and women are equal. Then he used the appeal to false authority when he said that “[two] men wrote that, incidentally, which must make it true, and among those who traffic in gender studies, it is something of a truth…”(701). It can be noticed that he tries to convince the readers by saying that because two people said that statement then it must be true. Also, he used a hasty generalization by saying that “…men are lazy and/or have a higher threshold for living in filth…”(705). He said that men are lazy which is a wrong generalization, and there is not a real study that shows that men are lazy. Then Dorment used a Bandwagon appeal example by …show more content…
For example, his overall argument was wrong because he was comparing women and men However, we cannot be compared because they are not the same. The compression of men and women is like comparing oranges and apples which are different. Dorment also claims that men and women are equal and women. However, it is not convincing because women experience things like pregnancy and labor that men do not experience. Also, men do not have to deal with the pain and changes on emotions every month like women when they get there period. He supported the men and women are equal’s argument with statistics of compression between unmarried childless men and women. However, it is not a good evidence to support the argument with this statistics because his essay is responding to Slaughter’s essay and she talks about married women with children. After that, Dorment claims that women do not “…make the same sacrifices as men past and present—too much time away from home, too many weekends at the computer, too much inconvenient travel-…”(701). It is right that men work hard to provide for the house. However, he shows half of the truth and ignores that many women work full-time or part time jobs and after they come back from their jobs they do most if not all of the housework including cleaning and cooking. Also, women are the ones who stay up all night when their kids get