Heteropatriarchy: Gender Inequality In Society

Society has attempted to cram a person’s whole life into words with singular meanings. As people define the limits of individuals aspiring to provide diversity to a judgmental world, they chain themselves to an unjust perception that will eventually cause self-destruction. Although certain civilizations have developed a different mentality about discriminating against minorities, heteropatriarchy nations, where straight male dominance exists, still proceed to be evident. The humanity of the world is slowly disintegrating because society has allowed race to separate, wealth to classify, and politics to divide. However, the concepts of gender, race, and class that society uses to categorize a person are interconnected, which makes examining

In this type of society a person that possess these “normal” qualities are privileged because they hold dominance in every aspect of life. Therefore a multitude of people have become subordinate to men. However, the people that are of a different race, gender, sexual orientation, or sex are at a societal disadvantage because they do not conform to societies expectations. For example, women is this system would be incapable of holding a high position of authority because they are considered too hysterical in difficult situations. Although heteropatriarchy drastically impacts the life of many minorities, the lives of these men are also limited because they are force to conform to a specific image. For instance, men in this system are unable to be emotional because that is a feministic trait which is a sign of weakness. This system oppresses diversity. The feminist effort desires to eliminate heteropatriarchy because they want people to understand that those that stray from this image are not any less of a human

Beauty standards restrict people for being completely natural. Magazines create this image that women are only beautiful if their face has make-up, their body is thin, and their very young. However, that is just one captured image of the variety of people that are equally as beautiful. For instance, Elise Matthesen argued, “We have a right to take up space. We have a right to stretch out, to be big…To challenge the rest of the world to become big enough to ‘handle’ us…” (Kirk, Gwyn and Margo Okazawa-Rey 212). One of the main reasons a women aims to keep a decent figure is to attract a man in this society. The gender of women have associated the idea of being thin with being beautiful. However, society should be accepting of all types of beauty because appearance is not the only part of a person that makes them attractive. Women are held to a standard in which they have to appear to be flawless, but their flaws are exactly what makes them unique. There is no way to describe to someone the way a person should look because each person has a different