Hyde's Gender Similarity Hypothesis

Hyde’s objectivity follows the hegemonic Eurocentric, masculinist knowledge-validation process, which is the only process I have learned throughout my education to validate claims. This process led me to fully accept Hyde’s Gender Similarities Hypothesis as a truth and abandon the claim that girls are physically weak, only capable of simple tasks and lack motivational achievement, whereas boys were capable of higher cognition, problem solving, and leadership skills (Hyde 88). These false truths placed my subject position as an inferior girl, restricted to hobbies and activities that my gender permits me. Wrestling and wishing to be a race car driver was too dangerous and physically demanding for my body. Completing missions and playing the role of a chief, who was always depicted as a man, assumes a leadership role and complex problem solving that only males are capable of. …show more content…
If The Gender Similarities Hypothesis proves that these are all false claims, then my submission as a woman is not the way I should live my life, but rather a way of life for others to ensure that there is a submissive group to assert their dominance over. Exaggerating gender differences will control and restrict women from excelling in jobs, activities, and hobbies at the same rate that men are. Hyde’s work opened a new truth to me that my culture’s patriarchy is based on exaggerated lies to confer dominance over women. My culture teaches boys to be the people that girls should be fearful of and not take part in. Given Hyde’s affirmed truth and Allison’s emphasis on self-revelation, I firmly believe that if we stop this pattern in my culture that asserts verbal and sexual dominance over women, women would not be as fearful in challenging men’s thoughts or getting into relationships with