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Text A is a gay strip entitled CATHY, created by Cathy Guisewite and published in 1986. The textbook talks roughly gender stereotypes and the fact that the great unwashed become unintellectual when it comes to gender. Text B is an extract from a memoir by Shusha Guppy, The blindfolded Horse, Memories of a Persian Childhood, and is published in 1988. This text is somewhat gender inequality but as well refers to destiny and determinism vs. clean-handed will. Both texts deal with the common theme of gender stereotypes, but distributively one approaches the theme from a different point of view. The comic mainly foc functions on the physical and behavioral characteristics that identify each gender, whether the extract focuses on gender stereotypes from a different view, gender inequality, and also talks most determinism and destiny in life. In Text A, Cathy supports her ideas with a series of sketches and the use of visual images by adding facial expressions to the characters. In contrast, Text B has a to a greater extent narrative style and passes the message to the audience without the use of set images. A similarity between the two texts is the date of publication and thusly the reader can understand that they have a similar contextual background. However text B, as an extract from a memoir, talks about events that occurred years before the publication.Text A has the purpose of showing how people viewed specific characteristics as masculine or feminine and sensitizes people that energise stereotyping is compulsory. From the first image we can see that the mother of the baby is not saying yet the babys sex in golf-club for it to have the ability to meet people, proceed living free, away from stereotypic characteristics that may affect its life. The reaction of the nurse, Ill bet its a boy, r... ...traditional Persian ways and shows that the narrator stands up for the sex equality. The overwhelm is also literally used as a symbol to peel womens be auty and highlight their feeling of being less towards the society. At both texts there has been cargonfully selected cry choice to relay the message. This word choice is basically feminized for the description of the women and hence, we can understand that both writers are feminists and they have the similar target audience.To conclude, women nowadays have a more advanced and sophisticated role in society although the sex stereotypes continue to exist and societies attitudes change towards gender roles. The contrast between a comic with an extract from a memoir which share a common theme, provides us with information about the different attitudes that cultures have towards gender stereotypes and especially towards women.