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Should men be mothers?

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  • Submitted: 12/09/2003
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Should men be mothers?

Rick Sanders' attitude towards the subject of his article, which is "It's a man's job being a mother" is that men should indeed be "mothers" but hopes to see that other people (including the prejudiced tax inspectors) would drop their stereotypical image of a "mother" being the housewife and the "bread-winner" being the male counterpart. He makes this clear through a number of journalistic techniques including humour, language and the material and detail.

The language that Rick uses to express his views seems to be, aimed at the adult aged audience with a wide vocabulary knowledge. His vocabulary is fairly difficult, for example "spurious," and uses a lot of adult jargon. Such as "PAYE" which I know as "Pay As You Go" and relates to Income Tax, but for people like me who is a student and not in the earning age boundary, will not know about it because it is about monetary matters, which only an adult should know. This article has a sophisticated layout of his opinions, experiences, and narrative. This brings me to raise the possibility of this type of article being not in a "tabloid" paper but rather in

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