Amanda Marcotte Sexism

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As human beings we don’t have the luxury of being able to choose between becoming a male or a female, and regardless of what technology has to offer in the next generations to come it should stay that way. The idea of a man or women ever being more superior to another is an absolute disgrace to our society. In order for our country to function the way it does, men and women on a daily basis must work side by side under no restrictions. In all honesty, being a male I grew up not having to deal with all the sexism that goes on in a girls every day activities. I don’t blame the strong willed women for rebelling and going against the common stereotypes that are tagged against them, I would do the same. Just now in the last couple years have I been …show more content…
Unlike Mr. Babich, Mrs. Marcotte has that firsthand experience adding a sentimental type of tone. You can tell in her writing that sexism has affected her life and her life choices. As a man that will make the executive decision to become a husband one day I would never in million years want the love of my life to feel like she wasn’t equally important in society. Mrs. Marcotte’s arguments are at its best when she takes the time to connect her real life situations to the movie Brave. As she stated in her heartfelt written article, “The Shocking Radicalism of Brave” men have the urge to tune out what women say solely based off the fact that they are too tough to take the two minutes out their day to listen to their companions input (2). Besides the fact that some men are just plain disrespectful, it is proven that you can learn more as a person if you hear what other people say, especially women. Gladly, the female society has come a long way. Just around a 100 years ago women didn’t have half the amount of rights they do at this point in time, and now with all the hardships women have been put through it is just an addition to their current circumstance already. There may be the first female president of the United States of America. That title would hold a lot of weight on the advancement for the …show more content…
Babich and Mrs. Marcotte are dedicating their entire lives to something that shouldn’t even be an issue at this point in our countries existence. It’s sad to think about how all the lives have been effected due to sexism. Now sexism does share similar circumstances than racism, and I do think racism will be alive in the societies to come but sexism is something that is such a simple concept. With sexism, it doesn’t matter if your skin color is white, black, green, blue, or people. People shouldn’t look at anybody differently based off what they look like and why should that change with if your man or women? A perfect representation of that is just because Mrs. Marcotte is a women doesn’t make her opinion on sexism biased at all, that would actually be a common stereotype towards women and sexism that they face constantly. But the questionability of biasness concerning Mrs. Marcotte get terminated by Mr. Babich’s arguments when a male is standing against his own gender to find peace in our society. Once the world has more human beings like Stefan Babich, then I can honestly say the world is a better

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