Thursday, March 17, 2011

How does genderism affect our society?

The idea of one gender being superior over the other is still in effect til this day. There's still a gap of recognition between women and men. Whether we like to believe it or not, our society is still in favor of men more so than women even though feminism is growing strong. We see it in career salaries and within the career fields. Fact is, men are still being treated a little higher than women with a higher paying salary. Even within the career/job fields, the automotive field, the video game industry, and etc. is mainly male dominate. We're categorized and put into our roles in society by our gender and as a result, they are expectations of what our roles can and cannot do.

For instance, women are expected to be a good wife by staying home, taking care of the kids, cleaning, cooking and support her husband where as men are expected to be a good husband by working and support his family by paying the bills and so forth. It would go farther with what our gender is expected to know like women should know how to cook as men should know how to fix the car or plumbing pipes and such. A better example of our society favoring men than women would be the controversial issue of sex. Women are expected to remain pure until marriage and if they do lose their virginity before then, they're considered impure and a whore.They're dirty and bad to society. However, when a man sleeps around with many women, his reputation isn't tainted at all, instead, he gets recognition and an ego boost.

Our gender roles in society; the ideas of our roles of what we should do and shouldn't do, what we can and cannot do will stay in their place until we're able to break society. Until we are able to break through and escape the old traditions, ideas and grasp the concept of independent females and fully embrace the idea of feminism, our roles will always be defined by society.

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