Women, Gender, Society, Identity

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There are issues about who is the stronger or the weaker sex or who remains superior than the other . There are those who clamor for equality of rights between men and women and those cultural injustices brought about by the difference in sexes . These have long been subjects of debate for centuries and until the present time . The attribution of masculine gender can be traced in history

Is gender treated as an identity or a possession ? Some experts think that in most cases , men have attributed subjectivity

to themselves and have reduced women to the status of objects , or to nothing . However current debate shows that men are surrounded by tools of feminine gender and by women-objects ' In Cheryl Clarke 's article Lesbianism : Ac Act of Resistance ' the author states that there is no one kind of lesbian , nor of lesbian behavior or any kind of lesbian relationship . Thus , it is but natural , that there is also no one kind of response to the pressures that lesbian labor to survive as lesbians (Clarke ,

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Sometimes I wonder , as I finished reading these two articles , why women are always on the side of passivity ? In marriage , when situations call for a decision , a will , a desire , an authority , it is always the decision of the father that sets in and not that of the mother 's . She does not enter into opposition with her husband in matters affecting the family . She does not exist and she may not be vocal about her thoughts she may not have a place of her own in the process , for she subordinates herself to the masculine gender

As the women rediscover themselves , they sense that they need not sacrifice any of their pleasures to another . Women become wiser and have learned to handle themselves better . They don 't easily allow themselves to be objects of men 's fantasies nor their pleasures . Women have their way of finding their own pleasures . Even though women 's evolution has made a radical change , the same is not sufficient enough to fully liberate their desires . They remain objects of masochistic pleasure , responsible for housework and the performance of their reproductive maternal functions

Today , women are enjoined to tacitly go on strike ' to learn to avoid men until they become strong enough to defend themselves . They are enjoined to be empowered individuals who can stand up for the choices they make . They must demand for recognition as well-respected human beings and not as mere prostitutes . They are enjoined to find their own place in society worthy to be called contributors of its own progress . They must learn to earn their living themselves . Women must finally come out of their shells and learn to speak up and assert their place in the society for if they fail to do so , history would simply repeat itself bringing women back to their old self

Everywhere we go and regardless of time of the day or night , one can...