Deborah Tannen's essay, "There Is No Unmarked Woman", attacks a very controversial topic involving gender. Tannen argues that women, unlike men, are always labeled with markers, such as their appearances and their choices. Tannen does an effective job of supporting her claim by providing a personal account in her experience as a woman. She proceeds the essay by describing the different appearances of each women, including things like make-up, hairstyles and clothing. As stated in paragraph 3, "The second woman was older, full of dignity and composure. Her hair was cut in a fashionable style.that left her with only one eye, thanks to a side part that let a curtain of hair fall across half her face." The author continues with more descriptions of other women and their choices of appearance. Tannen believes that women are defined by these choices whereas men are all simplest possible, thus men "unmarked". Although, Tannen supports her valid point with personal experience, I believe she isn't accounting for the entire side of men. As part of the male gender side, I'd say that men are just as easily judged by markers as well. Normally, if a guy is packed with muscle or does strength-training, people would get the impression that the person is more masculine. Now considering the other side of the story, which includes me, the skinny and scrawny kids are less praised. Personally, I found her claim of value about women being "marked" to be a partially positive aspect. Women, in general, tend to have a wider variation of clothing or hairstyles than men have. Alternatively, this displays uniqueness in the female gender. People should strive for their own identity instead of being perceived as every other person. Speaking from experience, I went shopping with girls before and I could not believe the amount of selections women could choose from. Reason behind it in my point of view is that every girl's taste is different, creating the whole concept of individuality. Overall, Tannen makes a valid argument but leaves a lot of opportunities to refute it.