Analysis Of Rebecca Solnit's Essay 'The Longest War'

Everyday there are new victims to this unjustified social issue, and everywhere it happens, but the victims are helpless to stop it. This social issue perpetuates inequality, offensive stereotypes and unpleasant remarks/ observations. This social issue is known as sexism towards women and its continuity is being preserved by men. The artifact in question is a comic series called “Archie”. Although, not the entire series itself, but rather a specific piece, which states that all women are failures, otherwise they would have been men. With supporting evidence from Rebecca Solnit’s “The Longest War” which goes in depth about the unfair and unjust inequalities and brutality women face as being treated as a minority gender in the world of men. (Solnit 527) The message of this artifact is implying that women are incapable of success. Thus, perpetuating the social issue of sexism by assuming, and generalizing in the form of prejudice amongst an entire gender. Sexism is cruel, and undeserving for anybody let alone women. With the idea that just because one is a different gender that they do not carry the same abilities or qualities and are

That wondrous idea is not very hard to answer, for example, in Rebecca Solnit essay “The longest war”. She elaborates on how or government tend to want to control how females control their bodies. (Solnit 528) In doing so, women lose their options that personal freedom and free will stood for. Which shows how sexism is already being established for every woman in the united states by the hands of radical men in government. This form of control of a single gender through the act of sexism can lead back to the idea from which the original argument began. Stating that women are failure, and add how men feel/want a sense of control though these sexist acts. Thus, provoking and perpetuating the idea of women being weak or incapable of the attributes that men