Title: A Fathers Role in the Household
Author: Krista Skorupski
Date: 11-08-2012
Topic: The lack of male figures in tender
and caring positions, and the small percentage of male housekeepers and stay at
home fathers in media.
Exigence: I’m writing this to bring light to
the fact that if a society wants change in equality it has to offer a fair
representation regardless of gender or intended role.
Intended Audience: The audience of
this piece is anyone to hear an opposite stance on the “typical” home situation
depicted in media.
Purpose: The purpose of this writing is to
shed light on a growing problem of a lack of male figures with tender
intentions, and in turn we as a society are creating an inequality without even
realizing it.
Claim: Americans lives and needs are
changing, and with a new era comes a brand new need for a different set of
homemakers to be represented, or at least acknowledged in the media, and those
homemakers are men.
LOGOS- Men are becoming more of a statute of the American home,
and in-turn should be represented as such. Many forms of media have men
represented as firm, dominate, and absent forces in the home setting, and this
has caused this particular ideal to projected onto men. Children’s books,
commercials, cartoons, and T.V. shows rarely show men in homemaking positions
they often depict them as figures that are coming and going and making money.
Many of these forms of media don’t seem to do this maliciously it seems it
always happens almost absent-mindedly like they didn’t even think of it as a
possibility. Men are more commonly choosing to stay at home with their children
and they should be represented.
PATHOS- As a woman
who grew up in a female centric home one would think I wouldn’t find an
accurate representation of men who stay at home, or those who help make the
home what it is important, but I do. Men have been vastly misrepresented or not
at all in the home, and what does this cause, a society that believes that a
man should be at work, and woman that should be at home. I suppose to break the
stereotype of “what women should be” we need to break the stereotype of “what men
should be”, and the media is the first step in doing so. Also because I want to
be part of the entertainment section of life I feel if I go in with a purpose I
can make a difference, and this is something I feel strongly about.
ETHOS- I’m working on this section still.
Some of the
articles and sites I’m using for statistics:
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