Submitted by ptrainor on Tuesday, June 6, 2006 - 4:50am

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Patrick Trainor

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Journal 13

Journal #13

I found it interesting in the work chapter that Winterson chose sales and an office as the medium for her exploration of men in the workplace. I thought this was a bit odd because I don’t find working in an office or doing sales to be a stereotypical enough of a man’s job. It especially didn’t work for me because she and her coworkers were doing door to door sales work. I see those people as kind of slight weasel like shady characters. In my opinion it is not all that manly of a job. I really only respect people who are selling things door to door for fundraising purposes like the Boy Scouts etc., not for profit. I think that Winterson would have gotten a much more positive and better view of men in the workplace had she chosen to participate in a more stereotypical male career such as a firefighter, police officer, soldier, sailor, airman, or marine. I think by going into one of these stereotypically male fields she would have seen that real men are not the shady characters that she met in the office. Also, she would have seen the bond that exists between people in these lines of work stemming from the fact that their lives depend on one another. Winterson would have also gotten a lot more insight into the male friendship bond that she didn’t necessarily get from her time in the monastery. I realize that it would be pretty much impossible for her to get into one of these jobs because of the security implications etc. so those thoughts were just theoretical.

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