Sexism By Marilyn Frye Analysis

In this paragraph I will be talking about Marilyn Frye’s article called “Sexism” and I will discuss whether I agree with her argument or not. Firstly, Frye gives an argument for sexism saying “sexism is not always apparent either to those who suffer from it or to those who inflict it upon others. It is imperceptibility of sexism that enables it to flourish in our society” (Frye, p.844). Marilyn Frye is trying to say that sexism is usually ignored in the real world to those who get hurt from it or to the ones who causes it. In my opinion, I will say that I do agree with Marilyn Frye’s stand on this subject for a couple of reasons. First of all, in the article she talks about how being male or female matters when trying to get a job. Frye states,

I would say that it’s true that sexism plays an important role when someone is trying to a get a job or not in this world. For example, when employees have a male manager, they start to think that he’s a leader for telling them do. However, if those same employees had a female manager who was telling tell them what to do then the employees would think she’s bossy instead of a leader. Additionally, for the most part that example is usually not criticized by people because sexism has entered their brain in a subconscious way so they don’t think it’s a problem for employees to think that a male manger is a leader while thinking a female manager is bossy. Moreover, Frye states, “For every type of occasion there are distinct clothes, gear, and accessories, hair-dos, cosmetics and scents, labeled as “ladies” or “men’s” and labeling us as females or males, and most of the time most of us choose, use, wear or bear the paraphernalia associated with our sex” (Frye, p.847). What Frye is saying is true in so many ways. For instance, when someone walks into a clothing store, they will see that the store separates the female clothes from the male clothes and vice

Firstly, we talked about how sexism is usually ignored in the real world from some people. They might not see it as a problem or they might think it has nothing to do with sexism at all. From today’s technology, virtual reality keeps getting more realistic by the day. We could see from the articles that sexism still exists in virtual reality. For example, in “My First Virtual Reality Groping” by Jordon Belamire, she states, “In between a wave of zombies and demons to shoot down, I was hanging out next to BigBro442, waiting for our next attack. Suddenly, BigBro442’s disembodied helmet faced me dead-on. His floating hand approached my body, and he started to virtually rub my chest. Stop! I cried. I must have laughed from the embarrassment and the ridiculousness of the situation” (Belamire, p.3 of 6). From this quote we could see that sexism still exists in virtual reality. However, we could see that it might be even worse in virtual reality than in real life because we could see that Belamire felt she was embarrassed for telling BigBro442 to stop touching her chest but he kept touching it because he knew it was just a game. Plus, he could not get in trouble for doing that in a game so his intention to stop was not there. Even though it was just a game, Belamire’s