Simone de Beauvoir's "The Second Sex" and Monique Wittig's "One Is Not Born A Women" and " The Category of Sex" clearly display these inequalities. In "The Second Sex" Simone de Beauvoir classifies women as the second sex because of their relation to men. ... According to Wittig the category of sex is a method that is used to show women's subordination to men. ... For example, if dog is the "one" then anything not dog is the "other". ... For him she is sex-absolute sex, no less" (de Beauvoir,162). ...

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Women and young children often fall victim to these pimps. ... One victim that was trafficked with me was forced to eat out of a dog bowl when she made a "mistake" as a form of humiliation. Our captor even kept a dog collar around her neck ant tied her to the dog kennel. ... Some women are promised jobs that lead to prostitution. ... I understand that you might say all women are not victims. ...

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I know that's not how it always is, but that is what people want to believe. boys are supposed to like girls and girls are supposed to like boys because that's they way it was supposed to be. that's the way we grew up, learning that little girls should be prim and proper, to grow up in to beautiful young women and then get married to a handsome young man only to get pregnant and take care of 2.8 screaming kids, soccer games, ballet classes, swim, dinner and taking the family dog, Fido, to the vet. in the mean time the husband would get up at seven, go to work at nine and work al...

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I know that's not how it always is, but that is what people want to believe. boys are supposed to like girls and girls are supposed to like boys because that's they way it was supposed to be. that's the way we grew up, learning that little girls should be prim and proper, to grow up in to beautiful young women and then get married to a handsome young man only to get pregnant and take care of 2.8 screaming kids, soccer games, ballet classes, swim, dinner and taking the family dog, Fido, to the vet. in the mean time the husband would get up at seven, go to work at nine and work al...

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Jeanette Winterson: Sexing The Cherry The Flip Side Sexing the Cherry, written by Jeanette Winterson, abandons traditional literary form altogether. ... Sexing the cherry is unlike many novels. ... The qualities that set Dog Woman apart from most women is that she is much larger than any women can ever be. ... "(91) If we were to use clear binary divisions, then one could observe that women today seem to be typecast as being the sex that represents cleanliness; Dog Woman doesn't clean at all. Most characteristics that represent women today don't fit Dog Woman. ...

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Throughout my life various women, including my wonderful mother, have told me that "All men are dogs." ... Are men better or has man's best friend taken the win over women? ... They are both capable of thinking only about sex and/ or food at any waking moment (when they have a waking moment). ... If you fix a man, he still only thinks about sex. They both have an inordinate fascination with women's crotches. ...

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The change in attitude towards women shown by Dmitri shows the role of relationships and love in determining the feelings of one sex towards the other. Early in "The Lady with the Dog,"" it is clear that Dmitri has a negative outlook towards women. ... These norms of society and previous experiences with women surely played a large role in Dmitri's attitude towards women in the beginning of "The Lady with the Dog-. ... No longer does Gurov feel that women are inferior to him; in fact, he now seems to look up to the opposite sex. ... "The Lady with the Dog- by Anton Chekhov proves to...

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The "The Lady with the Dog" is Chekhov's short story about the love affair between two married people. ... Due to his unsatisfactory marriage, he started to have extra-marital affairs with different women. But he never finds true love until he meets the lady with a little dog. ... Even though he didn't find the true happiness and freedom in all the love affairs, he decided that he will continue his meeting with women, and he believes that one day he will find his true happiness. Eventually, he realized that sex would not bring him the feeling of freedom and happiness, and h...

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It's A Woman's World Sex and the City is a show where the main characters are four independent and successful women who are looking for equality in a world that has been taken over by men. ... She acts like a man when it comes to sex. ... They end up having sex in her apartment that night. ... In the other episode, "Old Dog, New Dicks", men are portrayed as being wanderers. ... After they have sex, he dumps her because he feels confident about himself and wants to sleep with other women. ...

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WHY DOGS ARE BETTER THAN MEN Would you fuck a dog? ... Have you ever gone out with a dog? ... They are both capable of thinking only about sex andor food at any moment. ... Where as a dog really doesn't care! ... Maybe you have fucked a dog, and maybe even with a dog right now as we speak! ...

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There is a clear double standard between young men and young women especially when it refers to sex. For young men having sex even with multiple women is not seen as a serious act that defines that young mans character. But for young women having sex is still a shock to many and can define a young woman character in society in a negative way. ... I highly doubt that when a female dog has sex with various male dogs the other female dogs ostracized her from their group. ... But Janice Dickinson and these other women who choose to slut shame Kim most likely have the same type of sex Kim had in he...

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It's A Woman's World Sex and the City is a show where the main characters are four independent and successful women who are looking for equality in a world that has been taken over by men. ... She acts like a man when it comes to sex. ... They end up having sex in her apartment that night. ... In the other episode, "Old Dog, New Dicks", men are portrayed as being wanderers. ... After they have sex, he dumps her because he feels confident about himself and wants to sleep with other women. ...

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They display women on billboards and magazines as sex symbols. As Trisha Grover of Duluth YSA says, "Advertising frequently uses the image of sex or sexual pleasure to sell a product that has nothing to do with sex."" ... One of the advertisements has a woman sitting in a limo wearing a blue wig, blue bra, and stilettos with a dog sitting between her legs. ... Trisha Grover, the author of Advertising: System of Sexist Oppression says, "Advertising frequently uses the image of sex or sexual pleasure to sell a product that has nothing to do with sex. With this portrayal of sex in advertisements...

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Not only do they call women by derogatory names, but also they portray women as property and not people. For instance songs like, "Back That Ass Up", "The Thong Song", and "I Like Big Butts" all make women look as though they are nothing to men but sex symbols. ... Dre, and Snoop Dog came up with a chorus which said, "I just want to f*** you." This line in the popular song lead to many teens believing that casual sex is okay. ... Women are looked at as sex symbols and property of men in many of the rap song written today. ...

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An example of this is "A lucky dog or a gay dog may be very interesting fellow, but when a woman is dog, she is unattractive, and when she's a bitch she's the personification of whatever is undesirable in the mind of the speaker." Nilson is stating that because of the way our language has formed over the years, women seem not as important then men. ... An example would be "You cur", which would mean "You Dog".. ... Yes, rappers do talk about drugs, sex, and violence but that is their choice to communicate what they think. ... So my opinion is if rappers want to talk about sex...

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.  The word "Sex" embedded in various pictures and devices. ... However, upon close scrutiny, it is apparent the women are looking at each other women and so are the men looking at each other, suggesting gay relationships.  A bra advertisement shows two women wearing bras standing side by side. One of the women is clearly looking at the other while the other is looking off to the side. ... Again, an inference to gay relationships.  There was a television advertisement for dog food where a chunk of dog food is cut in half to show how "meaty" it is. ... This was at...

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The huge movement for women's right in the late 1960s was attributed to the growing number of women to the genre of rock music. ... -(Women's 1960s). ... The formation of the National Organization of Women (NOW), with Friedan as its president, started to draw up ways to achieve equality for women in society. They put pressure on president Lyndon Johnson in 1967 to reform the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, who threatened not to enforce sex discrimination laws, so that women's rights would be represented (Women's 1960s). ... It would not be imaginable to look back...

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Would You Wear Your Dog? ... (Mahatma Gandhi) Being asked if they would wear dog or cat fur, most people would probably rigorously say no and give me a weird look. ... He also argues: "I argue that there can be no reason-except the selfish desire to preserve the selfish privileges of the exploiting group-for refusing to extend the basic principle of equality[ ] to members of other species.I ask you to recognize that your attitudes towards members of other s...

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For example, if someone says the word "dog" to you. Dog is the signifier. The signified would then be the image you think of (the concept) that "dog" brings to mind. ... In today's society "sex sells" and this ad is a perfect example. ... Both of these ads used a "sex sells" approach. ...

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Inequality among sexes in our modern society is a justifiable concern as women (as a group) are misrepresented in positions of power and earned wages, however, the innate differences between men and women explains how these differences happen and are reproduced; this knowledge should be applied by the modern feminist movement to more efficiently pursue socioeconomic equality. ... Simon Baron-Cohen, professor of psychopathology at the University of Cambridge conducted an observational study of infants who had not yet been influenced by social factors to determine whether sexual dimorphism (dif...

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However, although it becomes clear throughout the novel that Gilead is a patriachal society, it can be said that the immediate oppressor of women are in fact women themselves, and that the oppressed women are fighting an entirely feminist cause. ... There, we experience the juxtaposition of the Handmaid (Offred) used for procreation and the Prostitutes used purely for sex. ... The epigraph shows that patriarchal regimes often use the differences between the sexes to secure control over women and to ensure men's exclusive hold on power. ... The lower class female in society, like Handma...

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This obsolete phrase brings wretched offense to the ears of modern American women. ... With Africans learning from western worlds to live a dog eat dog lifestyle, there grew a gigantic separation of genders and social classes. There were men, women, very rich, and very poor. ... Ngũgĩ gives hope to the weakened sex; he gives promise that working together, being patient strong, flexible and willing will pull them to where they need to be. ... They must stand, they are the weaker sex in this new modernized world, but there is always hope. ...

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Outsiders All of the people in "Of mice and men" are outsiders in there own right, they have all been disallowed, or to a certain extent not wanted to have certain rights because of things such a sex, race and different disabilities. ... Curley's wife is an outsider because she is a woman; there are no other women on the ranch so she is an outsider. ... Candy is an outsider because he is old and crippled, and when your are old and or crippled you are useless, your employer will not want to employ you so you are gotten rid of, this is show in the part of the book where they shoot Candy&...

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They literally dress in underwear, and danced suggestively such as the camera focus on one of the females tits bouncing up and down, i mean mammary glands, representing them as sex objects. ... Even a three year old kid on seeing the clip would point at the screen making the comment "I didn't know I can treat girls like I treat my dog". Whilst the females were represented as sex objects, the single male in the clip, in my opinion, was represented as a person who has many girlfriends, and does not treat women with much respect. ... It can be quite evident that this clip promotes women ...

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I'm not talking about sex, he says. ... Men were turning off on sex, even. ... Once they tried to bestow the fact that women weren't important, the higher ranked men tried to prove how they were the ultimate sex. ... Women were often seen as the lesser sex, but no doubt the most important. ... It's like thumbing your nose from behind a fence or teasing a dog with a bone out of reach. [...] ...

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