What Do Women Want By Kim Addonizio

When we think about others in our society, gender roles play a very important role. Today, there are many people that believe in stereotypes of men and women. For example, people think that women are affectionate and charming and men are loud and offensive. The way people are raised and how they grew up determines the way that people act. Usually, the characterization of women being weak has affected different aspects of woman’s lives. They are seen as physically weaker, smaller and fragile. By our culture, they are seen as passive and domesticated and in general weak. It is a question whether the stereotypes created in a society are true and if they can also be proved. In Kim Addonizio's poem “What do Women Want” represents the idea that women in society want to be taken care of. In fact, thresholds of pain and the biological differences between men and women, can reveal whether the stereotypes of weakness in a society are true or simply constructed through society. While women have a lower threshold for pain, they tolerate more of it everyday, therefore gender stereotypes and beliefs that men are

Although, men were native hunters and women gatherers, studies show that men have many more inherent weaknesses than women. For example, Mariane Legaton reasoned that at younger ages and their lifetime, men are more likely to develop disorders, commit suicide, and die violently than women. Also, Legaton said that there are “poorly understood” vulnerabilities inherent in men's genetic and hormonal makeup. This shows that there are opportunities to learn about the differences between men and women in terms of weakness and strength. Nevertheless, it is clear that men are subject to researches that extend much further than just hormones and pain thresholds; this also further represents the issues with characterizing women as a weaker sex in