Visible Invisible Narratives

The term 'invisible narrative' is already very obvious itself. Never would I have thought for it withhold such deep meaning until I attended Caitlin's class. When I first heard about invisible narratives, I simply think of childhood stories like the "The Tortoise and the Hare." The hidden message behind that story was simply 'slow and steady wins the race' so basically telling the reader to never brag or boast about your skills. But recently, the invisible narratives I've been finding through the assigned articles are so deep and powerful yet so unnoticed. For example, Martin's 'The Egg and the Sperm,' I have never realized the power of male dominance in biology books and materials. To be honest, I never even paid attention to how 'sperm' was usually pronounced first. It was so intriguing to see how the egg was described, and to see it be given so many different "lower" personalities. The female character of the egg was either seen as passive and vulnerable, or evil and devious.

I would have never looked so deep into that. Because of that reading, I have began to analyze more in depth of all the assignments and articles I read in all classes, and all the movies I will see.

In my own personal research from an article of my discourse, I tend to notice that there isn't MUCH of an invisible narrative or at least none that are too bias because the things that are written in my discourse would be lab reports and research papers.

The information in those don't tend to be very bias because the information and data used are supposed to be very neutral and known to the public. All their materials and procedures must be written out and they must cite where they get their information from so nothing should be bias. But some things I did find were not so much 'IN' the text but at the text itself. I've noticed most of the articles I saw were from male writers, and that there is a possibility that the text could have worded things a bit differently to hide "unimportant" information to the reader. For example, in a previous reading I did, some pills were tested on lab rats before being put on the market for humans. Oddly, the pills worked fine for men but not for women. Later, researchers found out that the rats they tested on were all male and so symptoms only occurred for females because they didn't test on both genders.
The only other assumption I could find from my article was that scientific research takes time and years before actual theories and facts could be discovered. Their research only led to help build other future researches. Discovering all these invisible narratives makes me think of the public as very sneaky and sexist. I don't see articles and research the same as I used to because now I over think every thing they tell me.