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Gender Journal 6

Gender Journal 6

Q Chapter 6 discusses the concept, androcentrism. Androcentrism is "a gender-based prejudice: the granting of higher status, respect, value, reward, and power to whatever is seen as masculine compared to what is seen as feminine." Androcentrism is different than sexism because, "It doesn't reward people with male bodies over people with female ones; instead, rewards accurue to anyone who can do masculinity. Androcentrism means, "what is valued in men (masculinity) is valued in everyone, but what is valued in women (femininity) tends to be valued only in women" Provide an example of how boys or men are encouraged to avoid femininity. In your example, discuss some of the social sanctions or gender policing that may take place.

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We live in a society where we only think that women have particular discrimination but rarely do we also think about the things that many men have to go through because they always have to look masculine. We often tend to put gender labels on feelings, sports, jobs, careers, way of living, etc. We establish that men and women cannot feel or live the same. One of the examples that we see in our environment is the feelings; often unintentionally, we allow society to decide what we should feel. In particular, in men, it is established that they are only allowed to feel intense feelings such as fury anger because that gives a man strength. Feelings such as sadness, vulnerability,