Men vs. Women- Who’s more competitive?

November 14, 2009 · Filed under Uncategorized

One thing that caught my attention of this article is the title: “Are men more competitive than women?” I wanted to read this article because of the title, and because that nowadays, competition has increased for me as I grew older and older and became more independent. I though getting some ideas about the differences between Men and Women is also why I chose this article. Competition is all over in our everyday lives; there can be a small competition such as who can eat the most hot dogs, and there are also really big competitions like the competition between the candidates. The generalization of how one side is better than another should not be made, at least that is what I believe, but this article was generalizing between sexes, and because of this, I wanted to know more about it how it would affect people’s thinking. The article itself is the competition because it is trying to figure out which side is better than the other. The idea of competition should be considered as important because it happens all the time.

The article is about how competitive each sex is and how the stereotype of women affect their competition. There are more gap of competitiveness that is different between women and men. In some areas, men are considered more competitive, where in other areas women are known as more competitive than men. I believe this idea of” who is more competitive” relates to what we have just discussed in the US history class: The Revolutionary War. Back in the American Revolution era, men were mostly involved in the war and men had all the rights because the men had more reason to compete against each other, and the British. They were also mentally stronger than women, which resulted that men were superior than women. To add, there were some figures whom we learned in class, Abigail Adams, and Mum Bett, who can be considered as competitors for their rights as women. Another relevance to the article and the history is the Declaration of Indepence, where it says, “All man are created equal”. I think this is significant because it ties into what we are currently learning.

I think this generalization of how one is better than the other should not be made in articles because it would generalize this concept even more intense in the future. As people do more and more generalizations like this, we can return to the American Revolution Era where women were not even considered. Thanks to many strong leaders and competitors of women who fight to not generalize this idea of how “this is better than that”. Examples are Hillary Clinton, and Oprah Winfrey. If the articles like this are viewed more and more by the readers, then, the situation of sexism can get worse, and create huge problem. Therefore, the stereotypes should not be mentioned in mass media.