Week 4 Reading Response #1

Week 4 Reading Response #1
Cartoons
I think that these visuals of how men and women communicate are similar in many ways. They all emphasize on the way men and woman approach certain issues or how they would respond to them. They show that women are more idealist meanwhile men are more realist or stubborn. The behaviors of women in all these cartoons are sensitive and lengthy. For example in the Mick Stevens comic, he has the man stating “Talk to me Alice, I speak women”. This comic symbolizes to me that the man is mocking the women and that the women is going to go on and on about issues or topics where as a man would just answer yes or no. Same for the Leo Cullun comic, you know the author is referring to when a woman want to talk in a relationship a man first reaction is “Uh Oh”. Whether the man is thinking he did something wrong or he doesn’t want to listen to the women go on and on about a certain subject when man will just get straight to the point.
The advantages to using heterosexual couples as example of how men and women interact are easier for the readers to understand the concept that the writer is stating. Most heterosexual couples can relate to the examples in a stereotypical way. The disadvantages to these comics on the way couple interact is that its stereotyping heterosexuals.
I think the most successful cartoon is William Hamilton’s, “Look, all I’m saying is…” This cartoon definitely demonstrates how men and women differ in getting tasks done. Men are more thick headed and won’t ask for directions, meanwhile a women in charge would just stop and get directions and go on her way. The least successful cartoon, I’d have to say would be Peter Steiner’s, because I guess after studying it; I’m not really sure what is going on in this cartoon. What I get from this cartoon is that the parent of the bride or groom is taking charge and the couple isn’t really sure what they want.

The kinds of people whom the New Yorker is trying to reach are middle age, middle class and older Americans. There lives consist of knowing what is going on in the world today from social to economic events.