The Opposite Sex Reflection

In this reflection I will be speaking about Steven Doloff’s text “The Opposite Sex”. Steven Doloff told his students to write about what it would be like to be the opposite sex for a day. I found it quite interesting, but not surprising that men didn’t write much because they tend to be more sexist because of the way society is built. Most of the women that wrote those essays think that men are constantly looking for dates, which is not fully true. I do accept though, from my observations that most men like going out on dates but some of them, for example my best friend isn’t one to date much as women think they do. For some reason, most of the female students thought men were messy in the sentence: “They threw their clothes on the floor and left dishes in the sink”. I think there is a misconception about that because men aren’t as messy as they put them out to be in movies, sometimes we aren’t organized but no one is really perfect. Women also thought that men have physical and social privileges. I don’t fully agree with this because women can also be very strong and fight well, but they do have their menstrual cycle which I’ve heard hurts a lot. That could be considered a physical privilege for men. However I do think that we are in a very sexist society so men do have more social privileges than women because in some cases men think they are superior to women, which is very sad because women are just as capable as men to do anything. Women also seemed curious about what men’s true feelings concerning women are like. From my observations I can say some men really don’t care about who they’re dating or how the girl feels and some guys can be fully in love with someone. The same thing applies with girls, some care and some don’t. Something else I found interesting was that men thought that women always go on dates if they invited them to a really expensive restaurant.”Gold Digger” is the term men used to describe these can of women that crave men who have a lot of money. This is also another misconception because not all women go on dates with guys just because they have a lot of money. The story was really interesting and it made me realize that we have a lot of misconceptions about the other gender and how the other gender feels about us, this is something we should definitely change about society.

Works cited: The Opposite Sex, Doloff, Steven