The Gendercide
How would you feel if a gang of women decided to take it upon themselves to beat up men? In the novel Y, The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan, Vaughn switches the roles of women and men by giving women the power and independence to govern themselves. He does this by giving women certain jobs that society isn't used to be viewing as jobs for women. Vaughn attempts to show the reader how men are relied upon to take matters into their own hands, thus, showing a contrast between the roles of men and women. Throughout Y, The Last Man, Vaughan is challenging traditional gender roles by reversing the roles of women in society to show the importance of the role that men played in their society.
Vaughn uses gender roles to explore the differences between the roles women have adopted because of gendercide. A gendercide usually occurs when a specific gender is attacked and murdered against victims due to their identity, which is what occurred during the novel. According to Vaughan, Yorrick the only man alive …show more content…
He notes in the novel that Yorrick and his mother are now being targeted by a group of females called the “Amazons”. More importantly the goal of this groups seems to avenge their dead husbands spots in the White House. Women from the Amazon said “We don't want to hurt anyone...But we can no longer tolerate your coup our government”(66).This is a key moment because usually society wouldn't associate guns and violence with women, however the women have taken the roles of men. They've taken the role of being the aggressors, instead of being affiliated with traits such as caring, and loving. This conveys how big of the impact men had on the planet, leading women to have to take charge. Correspondingly in another article gender roles were being used as one of the main ideas, in different surrounding but lead back to the importance of
How would you feel if a gang of women decided to take it upon themselves to beat up men? In the novel Y, The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan, Vaughn switches the roles of women and men by giving women the power and independence to govern themselves. He does this by giving women certain jobs that society isn't used to be viewing as jobs for women. Vaughn attempts to show the reader how men are relied upon to take matters into their own hands, thus, showing a contrast between the roles of men and women. Throughout Y, The Last Man, Vaughan is challenging traditional gender roles by reversing the roles of women in society to show the importance of the role that men played in their society.
Vaughn uses gender roles to explore the differences between the roles women have adopted because of gendercide. A gendercide usually occurs when a specific gender is attacked and murdered against victims due to their identity, which is what occurred during the novel. According to Vaughan, Yorrick the only man alive …show more content…
He notes in the novel that Yorrick and his mother are now being targeted by a group of females called the “Amazons”. More importantly the goal of this groups seems to avenge their dead husbands spots in the White House. Women from the Amazon said “We don't want to hurt anyone...But we can no longer tolerate your coup our government”(66).This is a key moment because usually society wouldn't associate guns and violence with women, however the women have taken the roles of men. They've taken the role of being the aggressors, instead of being affiliated with traits such as caring, and loving. This conveys how big of the impact men had on the planet, leading women to have to take charge. Correspondingly in another article gender roles were being used as one of the main ideas, in different surrounding but lead back to the importance of