Freedman's The Aggressive Egg
In his work The Aggressive Egg David Freeman invokes his audience to establish an understanding of the adverse debates when it comes to stating something with proper/improper language. Freedman incorporates two researchers, male and female, to expose the idea of subconscious battles that both sexes face when it comes to domination. Freedman’s study of choice is the language barrier that most biologists face when accurately passing down recently discovered material; Freedman brings forth this idea through his character, Emily Martin. Freedman reveals that Martin observes the way biologists become offended when she explains how she discovered that sperm is pulled by forced into the egg. This image, along with another language, that biologists commonly use in reference to the sperm and egg are the utter opposition of the stereotypes of each sex, which each person expects to hear. What is meant by this is, for example, most biologists state that the sperm is potent and the egg is aggressive like a spider. Therefore, bolstering males believe that they are the superior sex and therefore,
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Gilbert refers to the “egg as engaging in a dialog with the sperm rather than gluing it down” (Freedman, 1992). This appears to be more accurate because it does not appear to engage that there is an argument of the battle of the sexes.
Traditional or common portrayals of the fertilization process are inaccurately based on what truly happens because of typical stereotypes and biased information of male and female. Male biologists blow off the idea of the egg “controlling” the sperm by trapping it because they feel that it makes males appear less weak in comparison to women in reality. The limitations of Martin’s study yielded to reader’s wondering why there were small, but vital lies told due to chauvinistic
Gilbert refers to the “egg as engaging in a dialog with the sperm rather than gluing it down” (Freedman, 1992). This appears to be more accurate because it does not appear to engage that there is an argument of the battle of the sexes.
Traditional or common portrayals of the fertilization process are inaccurately based on what truly happens because of typical stereotypes and biased information of male and female. Male biologists blow off the idea of the egg “controlling” the sperm by trapping it because they feel that it makes males appear less weak in comparison to women in reality. The limitations of Martin’s study yielded to reader’s wondering why there were small, but vital lies told due to chauvinistic