Chapter 38: The Struggle With Gender

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Chapter 38 is all about the struggles with gender. For centuries we have struggled with women rights. The idea that this world is a man's world also known as patriarchy. Patriarchy was implemented in everyone's mind for such a long time which is not right. I'm a feminist and I think this is an issue that needed to be addressed and still is evolving. The fact that there was a time in this world that it was legal for a man to beat a women absolutely sickens me and this issue needs to be resolved. I know that we have come a very long way but there are still many road blocks like the pay of women vs. pay of men. Something I found interesting while reading was the passage on the lysistrata phenomenon which is basically the idea women are weaker

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