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Scott Russell Sanders, The Men We Carry in Our Minds

Scott Russell Sanders, The Men We Carry in Our Minds

Read The Men We Carry in Our Minds and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.

1. Why does the feminist with whom Sanders is having a conversation say “it’s harder for men”?

Men know they have been wrong, and they have to deal with that guilt.

Men have been unnecessarily and extensively maligned.

Most women use men as scapegoats for their unfilled lives.

No one recognizes the stereotypes with which men must contend.

2. What are the twin poles of Sanders’s early vision of manhood?

the intellectual and the toiler

the brute animal and the boss

the success and the failure

the womanizer and the browbeaten husband

3. As the author grew older, the chief destinies for men seemed to be

white collar and blue collar workers.

the rebels and the slaves.

the warriors and the toilers.

the hucksters and the suckers.

4. Sanders’s bafflement with the feminist assumptions about men began

when he began reading feminist literature and philosophy.

when he was in college.

when he began working with women.

when he discovered how terrible it is to go to war.

5. Sanders believes his cultural experience is similar to all of the following except

Third World countries.

children who grew up in the shadow of factories.

anywhere where the fate of men is much worse than the fate of women.

children who grew up on dirt-poor farms or in mining communities.