2006-10-16 12:18:01 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Esmerelda, you need to qualify your question a little more, please.
Is this for a "women's studies" course? I'm a Social Science graduate and this looks like an essay question that is just REEKING of "begging the question" (the professor already knows what they want you to say). But HEY, I may be wrong.
To answer: "Sex, is the cause of sexism in the United States".
You'll find it's also the cause of sexism in China, Russia, Africa and anywhere else in the world or throughout history. Men and women are different. Anthropology has proven that boys and girls develop differently both mentally and socially. (Check Desmond Morris for more on this). Sex is wonderful, amazing, frustrating, exciting and mortifying. Viva la difference!
Your professor is probably looking for something like "assumed male gender roles from the 1950's as embodied in the independent cowboy archetype and institutionalized by war movies" or some such drivel. Don't you regurgitate that agitprop.
Men and women are capable of cultivating similar behaviors that embody strength, weakness, independence, interdependence etc. But it's our TENDENCIES that belie our true natures. Explore them. Let the feminist propaganda die!
2006-10-16 12:31:49 · answer #1 · answered by roberticvs 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Women are the causes of sexism in the whole wide world
2006-10-16 19:24:02 · answer #2 · answered by freebird 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Men are the causes of sexism in the whole wide world.
2006-10-16 19:20:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋