Kinsley claimsthat male and female transsexual surgeries are natural and will help the psychological problemsthat these people have.

Married men find themselves to be more inclined to cheat due to their reliance on porn and thefeelings of being less satisfied with their partner and even less emotionally attached as comparedto non porn couples

allowing men to treat them as nothingmore than sexual objects

The events in the early 20th century would be better called the “sexual tyranny”. All thathas come of it has been under the guise of “freedom” but has enslaved men and women alike.

There are a lot of horrible ideologies that haveshowed up almost overnight in the media but the roots of this can be found in relativism

Parents today, religious, or not, face an uphill battle. They are battling againstwhat their kids are going to believe

people kids look up to as role models are disappointing and influencing the next generation to bewithout virtue and instead adopt self-destructing ideas

in one case, two vice presidents stood talking in a hallway as a phone rang, unanswered. after a few rings, the man asked the woman why she wasn’t answering the phone. in fact, this was no more her job than his, but because she was a woman, it just seemed to make sense that she do it. even when they have the same job title, women are more likely than men to be asked, or silently expected, to make the coffee, plan parties, take notes, order food, and clean up after meetings, as well as attend to clients or colleagues having emotional breakdowns

If sexism is sex-based prejudice, then androcentrism is gender-based prej- udice:

Most of us live in societies that are widely, even if unofficially, characterized by patriarchal relations. Specifically, three relations of inequality shape the hierarchical nature of contemporary gender dynamics: sexism, androcen- trism, and subordination.

Girls and women don’t take center stage in american media as often as boys and men, reflecting the general belief that women can identify with men (because men are people), but men can’t identify with women (because women are women).

underlying way of thinking about gender still persists

brotherhoods as deeply and unacceptably unfair.

men decide where the family lives and whom their children marry. If a woman works outside the home, she does so only with the permission of the head of household (a father, brother, or husband), and her earnings are given directly to him. a patriarch may have social and legal permission to punish his wife or wives and his children physically, brutally if he chooses. He is “the king of his castle,” so his word is law at home.

control of female and younger male family members by select adult men, or patriarchs.

[But] a “white” skin in theUnited States opens many doors forwhites whether or not we approve ofthe way dominance has been conferredon us. Individual acts can palliate, butcannot end, these problems.

Many, perhapsmost, of our white students in the U.S.think that racism doesn’t affect thembecause they are not people of colo

In proportion as my racial group wasbeing made confident, comfortable,and oblivious, other groups were likelybeing made unconfident,uncomfortable, and alienated

There was onemain piece of cultural turf; it was myown turf, and I was among those whocould control the turf.

whites are taught to think of their livesas morally neutral, normative, andaverage, and also ideal

much of theiroppressiveness was unconscious

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I had been taught about racismas something which puts others at adisadvantage, but had been taught notto see one of its corollary aspects,white privilege, which puts me at anadvantage

men’s unwillingness to grant that theyare over-privileged, even though theymay grant that women aredisadvantaged

Lessexperienced writers, by contrast, are often unfamiliar with thesebasic moves and unsure how to make them in their own writing

crucial for communicating sophisticatedideas.

roadly speaking, academic writ-ing is argumentative writing, and we believe that to argue wellyou need to do more than assert your own position.

expressing your ideas (“I say”) but of presenting those ideasas a response to some other person or group (“they say”)

critical thinking and writing go deeperthan any set of linguistic formulas, requiring that you questionassumptions, develop strong claims, offer supporting reasonsand evidence, consider opposing arguments, and so on.

not only the world of academic thinking andwriting, but also the wider worlds of civic discourse and work

mastery

The same applies to writing