Gender Stratification In Fight Club
Gender stratification is one big problem in our modern society because not only it plants a stigma about how women should act or live but limits her choices and opportunities. Mulvey and Killen (2008) states, “Extensive evidence demonstrates that gender stereotypes guide children’s preferences for activities, occupations, and career goals (Liben & Bigler, 2002; Ruble, Martin, & Berenbaum,2006), even though young children often view adherence to gender norms to be a matter of personal choice (Conry-Murray, 2013) or a convention (Smetana et al., 2012)”. Fight Club, a movie from 1999 based on a book from 1996, shows a great portrayal of gender stratification in the American society. The result is that gender stratification is a significant problem for our modern society. Gender roles are gradually improving than it used to be in today’s society hence it is variable and typically women are
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In the group, Jack is forced to cry and that helped him to sleep again. He essentially sought harmony by being a woman. He later in the film meets Tyler and no longer needs the rehabilitation group. He then finds comfort in indulging in fights and it turns him to becoming a man; not feminine and feeble. He is not pressured by the expectancies of the society he lives in and begins to living his life without any guidelines. Again, sexism induces women to evaluate themselves negatively. Wolford K. (2010) states, “sex segregation in sports does not simply reflect biology, but actively constructs and reinforces social ideas of female inferiority”. Mental impairment can be an outcome of sexism and this harm is not supposed to be ensued. Sexism could lower the survival rate of men but typically women. The result is that it ends human civilization since the world is sullied and so the gender in power(men) who wants to allow sexism are narrow-minded for thinking in that
In the group, Jack is forced to cry and that helped him to sleep again. He essentially sought harmony by being a woman. He later in the film meets Tyler and no longer needs the rehabilitation group. He then finds comfort in indulging in fights and it turns him to becoming a man; not feminine and feeble. He is not pressured by the expectancies of the society he lives in and begins to living his life without any guidelines. Again, sexism induces women to evaluate themselves negatively. Wolford K. (2010) states, “sex segregation in sports does not simply reflect biology, but actively constructs and reinforces social ideas of female inferiority”. Mental impairment can be an outcome of sexism and this harm is not supposed to be ensued. Sexism could lower the survival rate of men but typically women. The result is that it ends human civilization since the world is sullied and so the gender in power(men) who wants to allow sexism are narrow-minded for thinking in that