Female Dominance Or Male Failure?

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Female Dominance or Male Failure?

Female Dominance or Male Failure?

     James Thurber illustrates the male species' status with respect to, “
Courtship Through The Ages” with a humorous and melancholic tone.  He emphasizes
the lack of success males experience through courtship rituals and the constant
rejection we endure.  Our determination of courting the female with all our “
love displays” may be pointless as it is evident in the repetitive failures of
courtship by all male creatures.  Thurber shares his problems with courtship and
the role which men portray, he explores the relationship between nature and
culture, and the demands culture places on men.  Thurber's frustration with the
female species is obvious and is reflected throughout his essay.  The
extremities males endure to obtain female attention become overwhelming and
incomprehensible to Thurber, consequently conflicting with the myth and
construction of the ideal of masculinity.
     Thurber's frustrations with women are evident right from the start.   He
displaces  male insubordination to the blueprint of nature and it's “complicated
musical comedy.”  (Rosengarten and Flick, 340) It's interesting that he
attributes nature as a female creator and thus justifying the relationship that “
none of the females of any species she created cared very much for the males.”
(p 340)
     Thurber compares the similarities of courtship to the complicated works
of Encyclopedia Brittanica.  A book which is  full of wonders and within lies
mysteries of the unknown and unpredictable.  In comparison to the Encyclopedia
Brittanica the female is alike in many ways, such as its perfect construction
and orderly appearance seeming as if they replicate one another like a clone.  I
believe Thurber views all female species as being similar to one another with
respect to their character.
     The author also associates courtship as a business, a show business.  A
world which is chaotic, disorderly and full of confusion much like nature.  It
is an aggressive competition between genders in which mother nature dominates.
He also attributes the similarity of constructed rules and regulations in need
of much guidance with the help of a hand manual.
     Culture also places demands on males.  Males who are lacking in outer
appearance and sexual appeal try to diminish their faults by acquiring gifts “to
win her attention... and bring her candy, flowers, and the furs of animals” (p
340) for the lady in courting.  Women's refusals becam...

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