Feminism These feminist women aim to combat both the overt and hidden discrepancies in opportunities between the genders. This unfairness stems from socially constructed differences involving men and women, which render men superior and women inferior. The greatest challenge facing women is the mindset, of both men and women, that women are condemned to inequality and restricted in their career and lifestyle opportunities. These feminists do not blame men for the predicament of women. As Virginia Woolf explains, “It was absurd to blame any class or any sex, as a whole.”(R86).
In a world of absolute equality, each human being would never be looked upon as anything more or less than the person beside him or her. Unfortunately, this advantage may only go so far. For example, how can an intelligent person be given as much credit as mentally handicap individual? This is the case with Harrison Bergeron, in his maximizing complete equality is to have the intelligent people wear earphones (which give off horrible sounds) to distract one's trail of thoughts. This way society loses its chances to excel and will remain oppressed.
Discuss the way sexual desire is represented by two Renaissance texts on this module. The Renaissance period appears to follow the traditional ideology of gender roles and sexuality for the female majority. A woman was a “daughter, wife, and then widow”. The woman’s role was to be governed by the male attitude and thus meaning to follow the role of the dependable housewife. Females were ruled usually by men who were ranked and viewed as the intelligent species, based solely on their income and class, never their morality.
Oscar Garcia Ms. Maholtz Theory Essay September 8, 2011 The Role between Male and Female How can you define male and female roles? Well you might think they are exactly the same, a male and female can do the same things. Although now a day man and women are equal and they can do everything they want, it wasn´t like this in the past. They were so different that they had different rights. Even today you can find jobs that are dominate by the man.
Whilst any gender can be subjected to sexist behaviour, it is most commonly women who tend to be on the receiving end of it`. Functionalist and right wing sociologists might argue that sexism hardly exists in society today. Feminists would argue against this. Feminists have fought against the injustices endured by women, they do not believe in male supremacy. The fundamental principles that have existed in a western patriarchal society made women second-class citizens in comparison to men.
Gender equality does not mean that men and women become equal, it means that they are entitled to have access to the same opportunities for education, employment, financial independence (UNFPA 2013), and that they share the responsibility for the home and child care. It is important to have a level playing field in relation to social institutions such as employment, law and education. As it is only then will women gain equality, the same treatment and rights that men get. It is more important for ethnic women and indigenous women as these demographic types suffer even more than the typical "western woman"(Gen 14 2013, p.13). Looks play a major part for these women as does the language barrier.
Marilyn Monroe suitably declared, “I don’t mind living in a man’s world; as long as I can be a woman in it.” This idea brings to the surface an ancient battle of superiority between men and women; the battle that is the focal point in Louann Brizendine’s nonfiction book The Female Brain. In The Female Brain, Brizendine argues that men and women, no matter how equally each sex is treated, the two will never level out especially because contrary to a man’s urges, a woman’s actions connect directly to her hormones. To convey and solidify this argument, Brizendine incorporates the logical, credible, and emotional appeals. A woman, among many other things, varies between: a daughter, a wife, a mother, a friend, a boss, an employee, even a lover. However, big or small the role, each woman has innate and inborn parts that separate her from men.
Likewise, he spells out that justice is inclusive of morality and righteousness and that a person’s conduct affects others. All in all, Plato asserts that justice is directly related to the quality of soul. Tying this back to men and women being guardians, Plato considers the idea that morality and righteousness are independent of gender. He furthers this idea with writing, “Therefore, my friend, there is no practice of a city's governors which belongs to woman because she's woman, or to man because he's man; but the natures are scattered alike among both animals; and woman participates according to nature in all practices, and man in all…” (455d6-9). In accordance with the previous statements, Plato unites the ideas of justice and equality by not accepting the societal norms of this time period.
In The Power of the Positive Woman, Schlafly explains that there is indeed a difference, besides the obvious physicality, between men and woman that cause them to play different roles in society. She in no ways demoralizes the role of either men or women, but instead explains how each gender has an equally important role to play in society. She explains the ideals of liberationists by saying, “The second dogma of the women’s liberationists is that, of all the injustices perpetrated upon women through the centuries, the most oppressive is the cruel fact that women have babies and men do not” (Schlafly 296). This puts the blame of female anatomy on the males instead of on the Divine Creator of human lives. Although this seems to be a ridiculous reason to hate the male population, it is Schlafly’s way of making their movement seem ridiculous.
“. Women are expected to be nurturant and emotionally giving, willing to subordinate their own desires to please men and their own interest to take care of children,” (Lorber 231). All it means is that women are better at expressing their emotions and men decide to express their emotions in a different way. The common stereotype is that men should not show their emotions no matter what the situation is. Women especially, believe this and think that every man is not willing to show his emotions.