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James Thurber, a distinguished writer, writes a piece on how to maintain a successful marriage. It offers advice to both men and women to make everything work out. In a humorous way he sets up rules for each gender by stereotyping a traditional man and traditional woman. His assumption of an everyday woman is that she's always organized, clean, but very antsy and his assumption of an everyday man is messy, unorganized, and fresh. His rules are gender biased and specify certain things a woman and man should or shouldn't do.

Rule one stereotypes both gender in the same way. Saying that both partners can't bash on the other partner's former relationships. He also sets rules to not bad mouth the other's intelligence, capability, looks, or character. He calls this sweet-heart slurring. Thurber said this will end in divorce most likely.

Rule five though stereotypes woman mostly. Thurber points out how a woman will always try and do something which always......

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