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Assignment 6

In society heterosexuality is the norm for how relationship should go, but it is forced upon people (women in Rich’s piece) who doesn’t want to be heterosexual. Instead these women want to become homosexual, but they have to hide their sexuality because of how they are treated in society. In Rich’s piece she mentions how women market sexual attractiveness (the way they look and dress up for the job they are applying for and if they are sexually attractive in their boss or person who is hiring them eye’s then they would probably get hired) to get hired because their bosses are usually the people (male) with the money and position to be able to make a decision on whether or not they should be hired or fired. If they do end up getting hired they would have to endure sexual harassment if they want to keep their job and this is usually when they would join a group (usually feminist) to fight for women inequality. Also since women’s role in society have been usually to become a housewife in the past it isn’t rare to see that some people from that generation still view that women should play that housewife role, where women do all the chores around the house and to produce kids and take care of them. So if a women decides that she is a lesbian the society of that generation would apply the rules/laws that happened during their time whereas with the next generation depending on how they were raised and how open minded they are they would probably view women who is a lesbian differently or the same. Also I think Rich’s brings up a point where by being homosexual you have a better understanding of the person of the same gender because your body and partner body is similar, so you can understand each other more than with partner of the opposite sex. Since women are usually treated as an object in certain men eyes (thinking them as sexually depending on what they wear, for some reason human beings are the only creature on earth that views the female’s breast as a sexual object) it makes women uncomfortable.