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Assignment #7

In the article, “Are women human? It’s not an academic question”, Peterson and Parisi argue that we should interrogate the connection of “human rights” in connection to heterosexism rather than focusing on the androcentrism of human rights discourse. The author states that in the heterosexual society, heterosexuality was the only “nature” and “normal” relationship between men and women for people. He mentions the sexual inequality between men and women. The hierarchies happened including gender, sex, political. social-economic,and in family. Men have power to control women. Women were suffered from the sadistic heterosexuality. Under this condition, institutionalization of heterosexuality happens through the economy, women were gets lower paid compared with men. The inequality between men and women force women to rely on men since they didn’t have enough incomes to support themselves. In addition, if possible, women will get sexual harassment from men to get the job.

Compare with oppression that women get from the society, they also gets the oppression in their family. Even when females are single, they have been tied with the reproductive role. They force to play in the role, and it have been consider as the value of women. If women did not want to having a child, they will be consider devalue for society,.