Sexist College Essays Samples For Students

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Despite the advancement of women and feminist movements all over the world, some things are hard to change. Sexism for example is seen in all form of media. It even proliferated because of the advancement of technology. Gender insensitive comments now go viral in the internet causing damages against women and other gender orientations. The feminist movements however are not silent on the attacks as they are using the technology to critique insensitive statements and comments. Despite the set-back of internet against the women’s movement, it also favoured the movement in advancing its campaigns ...

As a creative writing professor, Junot Diaz is well known for the manner he articulates his thoughts in addressing contemporary issues in the society. Through his written work, he has constantly been considered as a feminist. However, other experts in literature argue that he takes a sexist nature as opposed to the feminist nature. Little has been done to expound on the essence of this matter, increasing the debate as to whether he is a feminist or a sexist. Through his books: Down; Nilda; and How to date a Brow girl, he has received a lot of review on the manner that he address these issues. ...

Introduction

Sexism is a major political issue since many centuries. This is assumed to be revealed much in the languages used. Most people consider English to be a sexist language since it is considered man-made and the society is patriarchal. Margaret Piercey has discussed about numerous works by authors like Cameron, Phillipson, Spender, Kramer and Triachlae in her essay “Sexism in the English Language”. In this article, she has tried to portray the fact, how the English language discriminates and marginalizes women in society; how ESL teachers try to educate their students using non-sexist language. English is considered as a dominant language. According ...

Epistolary novel The Color Purple, composed by American author Alice Walker, illuminates life of African American women in the South parts of the US during 1930-s. This novel is considered to be one of the most controversial and censored literary work of Walker due to its explicit scenes of violence. Thus, in her letters to God main heroine, Celie, reveals true horrors of her life. Being, uneducated and poor fourteen-year-old African American Southerner, Celie faces constant physical and emotional abuse first from her father, Alphonso, who beats and rapes her and later from her husband, known as Mister. (Walker) ...

Introduction

In the documentary, The Bro Code: How Contemporary Culture Creates Sexist Men, director Thomas Keith examines the ways in which popular culture continue to reward and reinforce sexism, predominantly among men and young boys. The film displays how a hostile climate towards women has been created by media, men and various other forces in the society. The filmmaker also places emphasis on how men are supervised and kept under surveillance of male behavior, which emphasizes sexist views and actions that harm men and is an obvious danger to women. This paper consists of the film critic's perspective and identifies the ...

Individuals are surrounded by the gender lore right from childhood. The gender lore is present in conflict, humor, and conversation, and it is utilized to explain and refer to everything from the dressing styles, driving, and preferences. When it comes to language, sex, sexuality, and gender raise several controversies and contradictions since people and organizations have different understandings and attitudes. This paper develops a reflection on sex, sexuality, and gender in language.
Society is currently dealing with the issue of transphobia, sexism, and homophobia. The offensive behaviors arise during interactions, conversations, and speeches. An example of a leader in ...

Telling one’s, or a community’s, story is subject to complex reductionsims of racial and sexist stereotyping. The subjugation of specific ethnicities, particularly African-Americans, and genders, particularly women, by whites and men respectively represents a clear example of unjustified exercise of power by specific groups over another. Indeed, by belittling and/or demonizing one group by another, only power can be exercised “justifiably”. There is no shortage, indeed, of lenient or more violent means by which a dominating group controls another, subjugated one. The superiority / inferiority duality is probably one most common mechanism adopted by oppressors in order ...

According to Gryboski (April 2013), Julie Burton, who he describes as a “progressive activist” and a person who “tracks gender bias in American media” feels that there is a wide ranging problem of sexist content in news programmes. Speaking to the reporter at a recent event entitled: “Politics and Sexism: Don't Turn the Other Cheek”, she told Gryboski that the sexism issue is not limited to politics, but that it’s just one element of a culture that perceives women merely as objects. She also said that this situation needs changing and that the sexist portrayals of women in public life and politics originate ...

Gender equality is an issue that has persisted throughout history and pervaded the same on one level or another. Throughout much of history, men have used religion, power and influence to subjugate and limit women. One might think that such a pattern would be tapering off and going away in the 21st century and within modern times. While many countries, including the one mentioned throughout this report, have been able to advance and progress in major ways, there are still a ton of opportunities to learn and grow.

Focus of Report

This report will focus on a specific country and a specific ...

Derogatory Terms Used as Tools for Maintaining the Privileged Status of Young White Males

In the United States of America, young white males from the middle class occupy a privileged status and therefore enjoy many benefits, such as being able to attain their goals without facing social pressures and barriers. While this group is occupies a position of power, people who fall short of any of the characteristics which would allow them to enter it, are discriminated from one or more points of view. Race, class, ability, gender, age, sexuality and ethnicity are some of the demographic features which are considered when establishing the power relation in the society. Groups which occupy a ...

Personal is Political

Social issues that are often classified as "women's issues" such as reproductive rights, violence against women, and balancing child rearing and employment transcend the individuals and become societal concerns. "The personal is public" was a frequently used feminist movement of the late 1960s and early 1970's (Peters and Wolper 115). The women consciousness-raising groups that were popular during this time was not for personal support and comfort but rather a formality of public deed to evoke political change regarding domestic violence, childbearing, and unsafe working conditions(Peters and Wolper 115). Such political issues referred as "women's issues" is an ...

The Barbie Doll

The Barbie and other similar girls’ toys are turning them off the field of STEM. Little girls have been taught to use Barbie dolls containing mirrors and hairbrushes, cooking sets, and makeup utilities. Of the 8000 phrases that have been programmed for use in the speech of Barbie dolls, the word fashion appears 51 times, which is the highest number compared to all other words. Style is one of the doll’s favorite topics for conversation, and she interrupts conversations about school, often preferring to talk about fashion instead. In the Hello Barbie’s lexicon, the words style, shop, ...

Sexism, bias or separation taking into account sex or sexual orientation, particularly against women and girls. Despite the fact that its inception is hazy, the term sexism rose up out of the alleged "second-wave" women's liberation of the 1960s through the '80s and was doubtlessly displayed on the social liberties development's term bigotry (bias or segregation taking into account race). Sexism can be a conviction that one sex is better or more profitable than another one. It forces, restraints on what men and boys can and ought to do and what women and girls can and ought to do. ...

Anything that has been found to impede the flow of communication is considered a barrier to the process. There have been clearly identified barriers to communication that result to varied negative effects. The barriers could be categorized according to physical barriers, social barriers or psychological barriers . Sexist, racist or homophobic language, for instance, are considered social barriers to communication.
Sexist language is a language that apparently discriminates against gender. For instance, instance in asserting nouns such as fireman or housewife, reference affirm that all firefighters are men and all who remain to tend the responsibilities in the house are women. ...

Introduction

Bell Hooks is a pseudonym used by Gloria Jean Watkins - born in 1952 in Kentucky, USA. Hooks is an English Professor at City College New York. Aside from teaching, Hooks has engaged herself in feminist courses and in the fight for social rights. Although her writings spun a plethora of topics, her most notable are teaching, race, gender and capitalism wherein she seeks to relate these topics and never treating any as stand-alone one.
“Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black” is a collection of essays by Hooks that address the issue of being a black feminist in America. Hooks starts from ...

SUU Writing center provided a material to lessen the use of gender-biased languages.

Example of sexist comment: Father, please practice softball techniques with your child.
The sentence show that sports and physical activities are associated with the father. The sentence also connotes that mothers can not perform such activities that is why the fathers are the one expected to perform the task.

Example of non-sexist comment: Parents, please practice the softball techniques with your child.

In the sentence, there is no longer any gender stereotype regarding which parent should perform the task of teaching their child sports. It also shows that the mother can also perform the task and that woman are no longer limited to domestic activities.

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In a video posted on July, 22 2016 comedian Mike Ward was fined $42,000 for using a disabled child as the butt of one of his jokes. ("Political Correctness Gone Too Far? - Canada.") While it is easy to agree that Ward deserved to be fined for what could be seen as an attack on a child and a disabled person. On the other side comedians argue that political correctness and thin skin have had a negative effect on doing their comedy. This is understandable as comedy has always been a way to look at the flaws of ...

Historically and to this day, gender has had an overreaching influence on the way people are treated within the criminal justice system, from the initial moment of their arrest, to their prosecution, conviction, and sentencing; throughout the term of their incarceration; to their portrayal in the media. Women and men are viewed unequally, and this has tended to have both advantages and disadvantages for both genders. When it comes to gender politics, the outwardly-fair criminal justice system can be seen to be anything but.
In all facets of society, women and girls have historically borne the brunt of the ...

One of the more interesting phenomena of the past few weeks in the American political scene was the brief period of time that FBI Director James Comey spent in the public eye, as the FBI and Justice Department investigation of Hillary Clinton spun to an end. When Director Comey appeared before the press to explain his findings on July 5, he went on at length about the different ways that Secretary Clinton had mishandled classified information during her time at the State Department. He detailed the number of emails that she had sent or received that had had classified ...

Our modern world is full of implacable disparities. All living beings are classified into different categories. The animals, for example, will often be categorized into those who can run, feel coming danger and be able to escape it. The biggest diversity ever is probably that of the gender difference and gender stereotypes. No matter how much time passes, there will always exist that inevitable opposition between two sexes. Though stereotypical views of men and women have highly reduced in recent years, many people still believe that some of the gender-role stereotypes retained till the present day.
The two genders ...

When it comes to the hiring, management and retention of employees, there are plenty of departments that have an impact. However, the most widespread impact most certainly comes from the human resources department. If a human resources department is not doing their job well, the impact this mismanagement or lack of management is felt throughout the business because the people that are hired will generally not be the best and the brightest and the good employees that do come along are quite likely to get frustrated or disgusted and head for greener pastures. While the functional departments of a ...

The articles “Roll Back the Red Carpet for Boys” by Donna Laframboise and “Our daughters, ourselves” by Stevie Cameron talk about gender inequality in the eyes of the public, but the truth is that both boys and girls are victims of discrimination. I support the equality and believe that boys should be treated as well as girls are and that girls should not be over-protected.
There is the emotional appeal in the article “Roll Back the Red Carpet for Boys” because the author, who is a journalist, writes about the difficulties that young boys face during the process of ...

The Experience

I have experienced numerous situations in which I felt pressured to conform to rigid and idealistic gender stereotypes. Specifically, during my adolescent years, there was a prevailing stereotype that girls liked the aggressive, violent, and uncaring behaviors that their male counterparts exhibited. I was interested in a particular woman in my neighborhood, and I intended to start a serious love relationship with her. However, I was always shy; therefore, was unable to approach her. However, after learning the stereotype about girls as held by my peers, I decided to employ the method in my bid to win her affection. ...

It is widely accepted that the men and women accepted into American’s military are upstanding citizens. They are the best and the brightest the country has to offer. As such, there are rules that they must adhere by while they are in uniform to ensure that they give off this quality. They must look neat, clean, and orderly. Hair must be cut evenly and in a timely manner. Men growing facial hair may only grow mustaches that do not exceed the width of their lips; no beards, long hair, or shaggy sideburns are tolerated. If a woman wears her hear ...

Violence Against Women

Violence Against Women

Question 1

Feminist researches have made important contributions to the field of survey research and the methods of measuring sexual assault and intimate partner violence. Describe the major methodological contributions of feminist researchers as well as the advantages of dedicated violence against women surveys.

Response 1

The feminist researches materialized research models that are relevant, legitimate, and popular. Both the quality and validity of the findings are beyond contentions and it produced important results that provided suitable guidelines for policies vital in the modern society. The domains and basic methodological principles are very diverse and wide. In addition, the type ...

Introduction

"The Great Gatsby" is an Australian-American film released in 2013 based on the bestselling novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald written in 1925. Directed by Baz Luhmann, "The Great Gatsby" provides the source of this academic discourse. The analysis of the sociological issue of deviance portrayed in the 2013 movie "The Great Gatsby" connects to the immoral actions of the era about ill-gained riches, social snobbery, racism, sexism, and excess in a time of national economic depression, immorality and marital infidelity, and murder.

Ill-gained Riches

The underpinning deviant behavior of the key player in this movie is Jay Gatsby who gains his wealth ...

Mass media is a very powerful tool that helps communicate ideas and information to a larger audience. With the advent of technology and its constant progress, people from all parts of the world gained access to mass media and was able to subscribe to it every minute of the day. The need to communicate later on became more important with the introduction of globalization, where interchange of ideas, products, and certain aspects of culture among nations became necessary as a means to improve economies, environment, and cultures. Now that it is able to reach almost, if not everyone, in the world, its ...

Identifying with groups can be a very difficult thing, especially if you were not raised in that group. Even if you are very familiar with a common interest, you may also have problems with the group you belong to. What does it mean to belong to something? Does a person have to believe in everything a group professes in order to be part of it? These questions relate closely to two experiences in which I examined the role of identity groups in my life – studying abroad in an American university and thinking about car culture, which is one of my hobbies. Both of ...

When a person thinks about the treatment of women in Shakespeare’s Othello in historical terms, that thinking would lead us to the understanding of the role of women in the time and context that the play was written, in Elizabethan England, where women were subservient to men, who ran the society. Even during the time of the play’s first production, women were barred from being actors and men played those characters. There is a marginalization of both women, and of minorities within the play and Othello is rife with instances of it both being portrayed.
It is important ...

Lesson 4. (1)

Throughout history, women are regarded as inferior to the men both intellectually and physically. Before the feminist response began in the 19th century, women are subjected to the rules of society dominated by masculine figures. Women are not allowed to have a property in their own name, to be educated, to engage in business and to take part in any major social issues. There are certain events in history as well as behavior types that galvanized feminist response to call for equality. It was apparent that the old society view women from a sexist perspective that negates women’s capacity to ...

Introduction

This paper will seek to document various pedagogical projects which are designed to eradicate racist, sexist, classist and the homophobic status quo in our schools and the wider society. In doing so, the guiding principles and maxims of critical pedagogy as an emergent moralistic and ethical discourse of the above-mentioned variables in the law will be briefly outlined. The backbone of these projects is derived from a variety of articles from The Critical Pedagogy Reader book which deeply explain race, gender and sexuality in the context of the new millennium.

Pedagogy Project on Eradicating Racism in Our System

It is evident that Racism is highly engraved in the ...

At times, there are some concepts that tend to be controversial or whose understanding is not conventional. These issues need to be addressed with a more analytical eye. The essay below looks at gender equality as one of the issues that are hard to define. The objective is to come up with a proper definition for this issue.

Gender Equality

For quite a long time, the roles of the different genders in the society were well defined, with a clear understanding of the duties to be played by women and those to be played by men. Though the society was quite patriarchal, there was no ...

Gender equality in Tennis

Like many sports, tennis is blatantly sexist. Achieving success in the sport rests on masculine characteristics such as stamina, speed, power and strength. Because of the fact that women are unable to compete with men based on these terms, the sport remains to favor men and segregate women. The gender segregation in tennis forces the need to have separate competitions for each gender, separate sets of rules and tactics for each gender, and separate world ranking for each gender. This has also created pay variations. Men side of the sport receives a much high payments than the female side. This ...

Alice Walker’s The Color Purple is a heroic narrative of an African American woman, who in a social context of intense agonizing relationships, eventually reaches safe grounds in issues of feminism and racial liberation. It is a bildungsroman of a female protagonist Celie, who commences her journey as being a tragic heroine to the final attaining of a heroic status, by utilizing an empowering subjectivity that will eventually resonate with all other African American women she is surrounded by. In the end, she will finally reach the “heroic selfhood [which] is achieved when the protagonist successfully subverts those conventions of the established social order ...