Inequalities Of Women

Chapter thirteen of this book discussed the inequalities and mistreatments faced by women and racial minorities in modern society. Furthermore, it was explained in this chapter that women and minority races face these challenges due to how they presented themselves towards their majority racial and gender counterparts, and how at the same time, men and the dominating races are responsible for the behavior exhibited by women and minority races in history (in this case, women presented themselves as weak, while while the minority races overall presented themselves as aggressive and uncivilized). In other words, this chapter ended on the fact that this conflict between races, men, and women is mutual, and therefore works both ways. Of course, …show more content…
Of course, this also affected people who were neither male nor female, and those who sexually identified as their opposite gender, or believed that they had no gender at all, and so on. Even more so, such cases regarding a blending of the two genders or having a different gender identity are so rare that discrimination towards these genders is inevitable. Nevertheless, both sexual minority groups (people of different sexual orientations and identities) were discriminated and forced into hiding. As a result of the closeted nature of many sexual minorities, they were only further shamed in society, considered by some as “weird.” As decades, scores, and even centuries passed by, the lack of activism and revolution consolidated the stigma of being a sexual minority even more. Although acceptance has greatly increased in the twenty-first century, the stigma of being a sexual minority still lingers. Adding more to the closeted nature of sexual minorities is the fact that there are so few of them on this planet, and that such traits as these happen so infrequently and randomly. Because of this, and their closeted nature, homosexuality …show more content…
In any case, however, activism alone won't work, as it fails to address the lingering bitter attitudes still held by some people. The mere promotion of sexual minorities as valid equals in society will not work either, as this will most likely come from a liberally-biased source, or appear as though liberally-biased. Only time or education in a politically neutral setting can solve the issue society has with sexual