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I Didn't Know My Dad was a Writer


It came as a complete shock to me when I read an essay that looked as if it was taken straight from my father's mouth. My father and the author could have been neighbors if not for the four states between Ohio and Texas. The essay is about the author, Scott Russell Sanders', attempt to understand what women feel that they are missing; when in his experiences a man life has little if any privileges. I relate in every way with the author's ideas. There is nothing I can't connect with because I've heard these stories since I was two and see it all in my head.
Sanders describes the pain and hardship that husbands and fathers had to endure. He, also, describes the advantages that wives and mothers had. He feels confused when he first is told of women's oppression. He has never seen women's work as hard when compared to that of men. Not until later in life does he look back and see, exactly, what women had to withstand. Sanders had never......

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