Women And The Rise Of Raunch Culture Analysis

Gender Norms of Society

In the both essays, Ariel Levy’s Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture, and Jayme Poisson’s “Parents Keep Child’s Gender Secret”, the authors have a common theme that centralizes the argument of their work. The pinnacle of their writing consist of an idea known as identity. This idea is spread across their works when they both talk about gender norms and how they should be or are being broken in current times. Both authors seem to stand for idea of a genderless society whether figuratively through Levy’s works or literally through Poisson’s essay. The authors’ common theme however is a mislead fantasy that could not possibly exist in today’s society. In particular, Poisson’s argument that one could

It is biologically impossible for a human to reproduce with another mate of the same sex, therefore it seems like a far-fetched idea to state that we can change society or live in this current one with everyone being or acting as though they were genderless. Poisson’s grand idea of a genderless society will inevitable fail due to society’s strong resistance and the social structures that were built over time. These building blocks of society and gender helped define the culture that we live in today. By trying to shift or destroy these very significant parts of society, one will soon discover the devastating effects of it on the world. Levy’s shows a very good example of this is her work when talking about the women dubbed the name “female chauvinist pigs” who are women who act like men to get in higher levels of society and more of an elite status in the world. Just as quoted in Levy’s book by James Baldwin, “’We take our shape, it is true, within and against the cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth…The cage in which we find ourselves bound, first without, then within, is the nature of our categorization.” (273) He is saying the boundaries that society has created the gender barriers that give humans there being or essence, it is what makes them who they are inside and outside of themselves. This begs the question of why there is this barrier in all societies of the world. The answer to this question is biological processes of evolution. Without the barrier of gender in earlier developing societies one could not have possibly survived due to the nature of mating. Sex is what has kept the human race alive, and quite literally is an effective way to preserve an entire species. Reproduction is an evolved mechanism that has taken millions of years to master and nature has made it so that life can continue. With this