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Think these guys ever wondered why they were single? Let's give them some good reasons by taking a look at this question.


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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop toos

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your brought to you by benjamin franklin founding father inventor

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and master of the fart joke Yeah google it seriously

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Not kidding All right check out old mistresses apple log

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to answer the following question Then franklin wrote that find

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your friend Wait think before alright what type of opinions

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do the author of old mistresses apple ogg and his

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friend likely hold regarding women in general and older women

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specifically use evidence from the letter in your answer and

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here's a potential answer Yeah well bigger and his friend

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like women in here demanding Okay well the speaker and

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his friend likely think that women are inferior to men

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in a number of ways As was common during this

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time the passage list women's values in terms of how

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they can serve men No not for dinner Servant one

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example states that women on ly gain proper conversation skills

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with old age point number one beginning line nineteen Their

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speaker goes on to point out how a woman if

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no longer attractive will work harder to be a good

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person and more useful to a man home were great

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thinkers He argues that older women won't burden a man

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with children will care for him when he is ill

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and can keep their affair discreet That the speaker is

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quoting these points to his friend indicates that the friend

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probably values women as individuals as little as the author

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does this Has been your short answer as requested by

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the czars of the osi We use lots of evidence

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from the letter The show Just how sexist this gym

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from ben franklin really is We'll never look a one 00:01:50.073 --> [endTime] hundred dollar bill the same way again All right

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