Helen Keller's Rhetoric

George’s article, “Mr. Burke, Meet Helen Keller", introduces the reader to a different side of Helen Keller. I knew Helen Keller as the girl who lost majority of her sense but now we are discussing her in a different way. George challenged readers to think of Helen Keller in terms of her being a woman still since she lost some of her senses. It's amazing to know that Helen Keller was “living and writing rhetorical theory". (George 340) I say that because the debate about men being stronger then woman stands around even today. However, knowing what Helen Keller experienced and went through I could see how Keller would be stronger than a man because she still was able to live without having the majority of her senses. If a man was to do that as well then this would definetly be a pointless argument. George also mentions how the society in which Helen Keller was living in was more so dominated by men and he called it "unauthentic, unreflective and strangely disturbing" (George 345). I'm pretty sure it was hard living in the society like that because that situation was very strange, it was not common. It gave many men more power because there was not a man or boy who was in the same situation as Helen Keller. This left women to be looked at as more fragile then men.  Had Helen Keller been born in today's society she would have been fully excepted without being looked at differently, or without questioning her womanhood.  

Now in Butler’s “Gender Trouble”, the author basically states that "women constitute the unreprestable because they existed within a language pervasively masculine, a phallogocentric language ." (Butler 13) I agree with Butler because I feel as women just came about in the world and were expected to just adapt to the language of the man. Even if it could be women's language, the fact that it is always called the "man's" world or the "man's " language, it is perceived as if we are guest in this world full of men. I do not like that at all and maybe my dislike stems from the way women have evolved over time . How vocal we are and independent we can be without a man defying who we are. Butler also says that  “the canon of modern rhetorical theory is dramatically and almost exclusively male” (Butler 346). I could see why this  text was titled "Gender Trouble" it honestly causes trouble amongst the main two genders. I feel as though not every person is able to fit into the "white male spectrum" it excludes a lot people. That doesn't become fair but it then leads to people imitating  this rhetorical canon. Living their life a certain way in order to be accepted into this canon. I just wonder what happens when you are not accepted into the canon? You have spent a whole lifetime trying to fit in and you don't get your time back. How can women be fitted in as agents? This is when women become more so seen and not heard. Becoming stay at home wives and just getting placed into the life of a man. Once again this this is the life of a man and for a man.