Lady and the Tramp

In the Declaration of Sentiments the point the author was trying to get across was not just to convey her feministic views on the world, but to draw other people's attention to it. Elizabeth Cady Stanton states that, "he has endeavored, in every way that he could to destroy her confidence in her own powers, to lessen her self-respect, and to make her willing to lead a dependent and abject life." To imply that women stand together as a group she refers to them as "her." She does so to give her audience the opportunity to think of who he or she refers to as "her" and relate that women to the things she is describing in her passage.

Although I don't agree with the author for referring to women as a group when talking about such an opinionated topic. She is implying that all women feel this way and all women experience such things, but that is not the case. Many women today unfortunately do not view feminists in the same positive way as they would view someone who isn't afraid to voice her opinion.  Many of these other women that oppose feminism treat these active feminists worse than a man would. I'm not saying that what feminists were and are still fighting for doesn't exist, because there are many cases in which it does apply to certain women. I agree with feminists in the sense that women deserve to be treated just like men are, and in today's world men and women are almost equal to each other. I just do not agree with stereotyping mens actions towards women to be an attack on the whole gender as a group, represented by "her."