Analyse af Hanna Rosins artikel 'The End of Men'

Throughout the last millennium, women have fought for equality while men just have followed in the previous men’s footsteps. The masculine mankind has been too easy living and now the modern, postindustrial society strikes hardly back. “If you play with fire, you will get burned” and since men have played with the fire (the power) too long it is about time for them to get burned. Now women’s struggle for equality seems to be achieved, but what if equality isn’t the end point? And what comes next? In Hanna Rosin’s article “The End of Men”, she argues that exact topic. Times are changing and so is our culture, but what are Rosin’s arguments for that kind of a conclusion?

Rosin’s main claim is that women are not only equal to but soon greater than men, actually. She uses various arguments in support of this claim, and the most important data is that the advent of sperm selection has resulted in a majority of people choosing girls instead of boys even though the inventor Ronald Ericsson originally has thought it would be the other way around where parents choosing boys over girls. This data is based on the fact that the majority of the couples in USA use the method asking for girls although Ronald Ericsson advertises the method as more effective for producing boys. The warrant for this argument, that the pattern of sex is changing, is that since the majority of parents choose to have a girl over a boy girls must be the preferred sex. The reason for this could be that it is women who make all decisions nearly, and since they like being women they choose girls instead of boys, Rosin argues.