Sandra Lee Bartky's "Emotional Exploitation"

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This paper argues that Sandra Lee Bartky's opinions on the male-female relationship, as put forth in her article "Emotional Exploitations", puts the idea of gender equality back several generations. The paper accuses Bartky of skewing the whole male-female relationship and of taking women back to the time when marriage vows still included the words "love, honor and obey".

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"Feminism in recent years has destroyed the myth of the female as the weaker sex. Bartky turns the clock back. When she begins her article with the question "What does a man want?" One is drawn into her theory that man is exploitative and some women are either willing to accept it or driven to emotional despair when they cannot match the male's demands. Man, as Bartky opens with a quote from Sulamish Firestone, is parasitical. So, we are to assume that the male animal" feasts on the weaknesses, the needs and desires of the woman."

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