Jenifer Lawrence response

The context of this text is Jennifer Lawrence angered by the discovery that she is earning less than her male co-workers. She talks about how she was a main character in the film but was not being paid equally to the males she acted along side. She talks about men being able to get what they want by asking but when she tried to do this she was turned down. She gives of a feeling of anger in the text due to the way she has been treated.

It is believed that males use more swear words when speaking, Jennifer uses a lot of swear words to push her outrage onto the reader. An example of this "Fuck that." This is more effective as it evokes a reaction out of the reader. This is because women stereotypically use empty adjectives and weak sentences that aren't to the point. This pushes Jennifer's point across even more as she comes across more 'masculine' which contrasts what is expected. She is also very to the point which is a stereotypically masculine trait. She talks about talking to someone who works for her "I spoke my mind and gave my opinion in a clear and no-bullshit way". This is seen as a masculine thing to do, to be concise and to the point. The reaction she gets from this goes to show how women and men can speak however they want, but if it's not socially accepted or the norm then they will not be treated equally. However Jennifer does use 'female' language in the text. She does not include a lot of humour which according to Lakoff  'women do not have a sense of humour'. She does make a few sarcastic comments, for example "I found out how much less I was being paid than the lucky people with dicks". This does have serious undertones and the rest of the text is mostly serious. Stereotypically if a male had written this he would have used humour to get his point across.

I agree with her conclusion that it is completely wrong for women to not be paid equally to men. It was right of her to question it with others and their reaction of acting as if she was being unreasonable was wrong. I agree it would have been responded to differently if it were a male querying the same situation. Like Cameron believes that gender is something you do not something you are, I agree. Jennifer proves this by using masculine language aspects rather than using empty adjectives and tag questions.