Sexism and Identity Construction the Term Paper

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All constructed groups have shown a certain jealousy of the rights and privileges accorded to others. For instance, the legal rational of Michael M. v. Superior Court of Sonoma County rested upon the fact that male and female sexuality in cases of statutory rape should be equal, and to make male and female distinctions was unfair to males, and also to male homosexual couples. The case of Rostker v. Goldberg was put forth after a number of men challenged the constitutionality of the draft as discriminatory -- should not both women and men be forced to defend their country, under equal onus of the law.

Women thus have the freedom and privilege not to serve in the military by compulsion, and to receive extra protections via their sexuality when young -- privileges often used against them. Homosexual couples have the privilege of not having to engage in public affirmations or vows of their coupling and suffering the social constructions and constraints of marriage, but are denied the social appropriation and the legal and tax benefits of marriage.

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Transvestites are allowed the social privileges of transgression but at the expense of the rewards of feeling as if they participate in hegemonic culture while participating in performance of their identity. Transsexuals desire such participation, but must pay the price of obeying the constraints and constructions of the gender the wish to become even more carefully than those born into the body of the male or female the transsexual desire to 'become.'.....

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