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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
- 00:05
your brought to you by benjamin franklin founding father inventor
- 00:09
and master of the fart joke Yeah google it seriously
- 00:14
Not kidding All right check out old mistresses apple log
- 00:19
to answer the following question Then franklin wrote that find
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- 00:24
your friend Wait think before alright what type of opinions
- 00:30
do the author of old mistresses apple ogg and his
- 00:33
friend likely hold regarding women in general and older women
- 00:36
specifically use evidence from the letter in your answer and
- 00:40
here's a potential answer Yeah well bigger and his friend
- 00:43
like women in here demanding Okay well the speaker and
- 00:47
his friend likely think that women are inferior to men
- 00:49
in a number of ways As was common during this
- 00:52
time the passage list women's values in terms of how
- 00:55
they can serve men No not for dinner Servant one
- 01:03
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
- 01:14
no longer attractive will work harder to be a good
- 01:17
person and more useful to a man home were great
- 01:21
thinkers He argues that older women won't burden a man
- 01:24
with children will care for him when he is ill
- 01:27
and can keep their affair discreet That the speaker is
- 01:31
quoting these points to his friend indicates that the friend
- 01:33
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
- 01:46
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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