For my Practice IO, for my lit text, I chose a 40 line extract from the play, Top Girls, around the scene with Marlene talking with the wife of Howard. For my non-lit text, I chose a work from Saint Hoax’s Making America Misogynistic Again. Specifically and advertisement that portrays a crying woman and a happy man, with burnt dinner and with the heading “That’s okay. I know you’re not thinking. You never do”. The global issue that I decided to explore with both of these texts was the representation of gender power imbalance in media.
The reason I decided to choose this part of my lit text was that it is able to represent my global issue because of how women were generally perceived back in the day, in which women were usually seen as working for men instead of the other way around. The whole discussion of Marlene with Howard’s wife about her position of power provides good content and evidence to explain this point, as well as being a good representation of how women were perceived.
The reason I decided to choose my non-lit text was because of the way that Trump’s misogyny was represented in the Media, as well as his words being able to fit in pretty well within the context of an advertisement made back in the 1950s when misogyny was more normally seen. This links with my global issue, in which the advertisement is able to represent gender power imbalance in media because of how the context of Trump’s were able to be transformed into this context.
