Social institutions, culture, and socialization are all a part of an invisible set of society's rules that make inequality acceptable. ... This is equivalent to the invisible hierarchies demonstrated by the brand of bread we purchase, or the amount of French cooking appliances we indulge in, or the records we collect (People Like Us). ...
An additional factor is the widespread use of "man" to derive sexist job titles from occupations (e.g. ... Silveira (1980 in Thorne et al 1983) found in a series of studies that while women tended to interpret gender-biased "generic" pronouns as generic men tended to interpret them as meaning "male" and that this included terms that simply contained the word "man". ... It would be extremely unlikely for anyone to refer to a man as "Jane's widower" even if the term "widower" was still used in our society. ... It has been argued by those who are against linguistic reform that this does not ...
The traditional idea of a 'man' had been taken away, which was creating false expectations, and when these expectations aren't met, they take control of their life in terms of violence, attempting to show masculinity in a different way. ...
