Female Dominance Or Male Failure?

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of the females of any species she created cared very much for the males.”
(p 340)
Thurber compares the similarities of courtship to the complicated works
of Encyclopedia Brittanica. A book which is full of wonders and within lies
mysteries of the unknown and unpredictable. In comparison to the Encyclopedia
Brittanica the female is alike in many ways, such as its perfect construction
and orderly appearance seeming as if they replicate one another like a clone. I
believe Thurber views all female species as being similar to one another with
respect to their character.
The author also associates courtship as a business, a show business. A
world which is chaotic, disorderly and full of confusion much like nature. It
is an aggressive competition between genders in which mother nature dominates.
He also attributes the similarity of constructed rules and regulations in need
of much guidance with the help of a hand manual.
Culture also places demands on males. Males who are ...

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