It highlights why femininity is so difficult for women to simply conform to, because there is no easy right normal way to be a woman, and every popular way is criticized, this furthers her argument by pointing out how unreasonable the lack of a norm for femininity is for women. Tannen continues on the path she laid out for herself by giving more examples of the lack of an acceptable norm for women by discussing language and how it interacts gender. In Tannen’s discussion she systematically goes through the choices women have when it comes to the language of their identities. She highlights how each option is not desirable which facilitates her argument by showing how all options for women to wish to identify themselves are negative and harmful to women. This appeals to both our sense of logic and our sympathy while furthering her argument, because it shows very
It highlights why femininity is so difficult for women to simply conform to, because there is no easy right normal way to be a woman, and every popular way is criticized, this furthers her argument by pointing out how unreasonable the lack of a norm for femininity is for women. Tannen continues on the path she laid out for herself by giving more examples of the lack of an acceptable norm for women by discussing language and how it interacts gender. In Tannen’s discussion she systematically goes through the choices women have when it comes to the language of their identities. She highlights how each option is not desirable which facilitates her argument by showing how all options for women to wish to identify themselves are negative and harmful to women. This appeals to both our sense of logic and our sympathy while furthering her argument, because it shows very