“Rape Fantasies” vs. “Looking at Woman”

The following essay goes in depth about the concern for female power and if females even have any power over males. “Rape Fantasies” is written in a woman’s perspective and “Looking at Woman” is written in a male’s perspective. As you continue to read this essay you will see the differences that men and woman share, and how the authors differ when talking about the roles of woman today.

“Rape Fantasies” is an essay where a woman named Estelle is the narrator and she speaks to the reader about her life and her own rape fantasies. The fantasies are not so much rape fantasies, but fantasies of meeting different people in the wrong way. Estelle befriends the rapists and has conversations with them and this is her way of meeting different people.

Estelle narrates this essay. She is at work with her co-workers and is listening to each one of them tell their rape fantasy stories and then goes on to tell hers too. At this point when she is telling hers, it is Friday night and she is at a bar with a complete stranger. Estelle is in her mid-thirties, roughly, and seems to have a dull, boring job. Due to the lack of excitement at her job, she creates these fantas

“Rape Fantasies” was an outstanding essay to read, being a woman. I think that not having many women write an essay about them says a lot about what these men were writing about woman. “Looking at Woman” is written in a males perspective, so everything they write may not agree with the way woman feel, and if you are writing about power in woman then I think it should be done by a woman herself, and not by another’s point of view. Women have to speak up for themselves and let the men know how they feel, instead of reading how men think woman feel.

ies about men entering her life and wanting to have sex with her, but she always end up feeling sorry for that person in each fantasy. One has an acne problem and she wants to give him the name of her dermatologist and the other has a cold and she offers him some Kleenex and he ends up staying the night with her. These fantasies are created by her need to be with someone and not to be lonely. When Estelle enters the bar on a Friday night she sits at a table and begins talking about her rape fantasies with a random stranger that she meets. She reveals a lot about herself to this complete stranger and I believe that she is trying to fulfill one of her fantasies with this man. Estelle wants to have someone in her life, maybe as a friend to talk to, or maybe as a sexual partner. Estelle's work life bores her and by creating these rape fantasies, it makes her day go by faster and her life a little less lonely. This essay explains how woman are in need of people in their lives and how we do create stories in our minds that may be fairytale-like, but they do serve a purpose to us woman. They make us happy and give us hope that maybe someday a fantasy will actually happen for one of us woman.

In the essay “Looking at Woman”, Sanders goes on to discuss woman and how they are seen by others. Sanders essay focuses on the way that woman see nudity in a different way then that of men. Each paragraph explains different episodes of his life, from hi

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