Marilyn Frye Sexism

In this essay, I am going to argue that sexism is brought on by self-identification and suspected roles of males and females. According to Britannica, sexism is defined as “prejudice or discrimination based on sex or gender, especially against women.” Marilyn Frye is an American philosopher whose work focuses mainly on feminist theory. She wrote the text titled “Sexism” which presents an argument of how the whole system of gender is related to one of dominance, implying that masculinity is about dominance and femininity is about how subordinate woman are perceived as.

In the beginning of the text, Frye clearly states that sex identification is pervasive and can not be avoided. The quote “Sex-identification intrudes into every moment of our lives and discourse… One never can ignore it,” (236) helps to imply this even more so, clearly showing her aggravation towards the subject and how it can “never” be ignored. Frye believes that there are two main

Such as a transgender person (male to female) could be portrayed in such ways as gait, mannerisms et cetera to be male, however, they identify as a female according to themselves. Woman expect men to hold up to them being the more dominant one in the relationship so sexism is not necessarily just seen in men being sexist towards women making this problem irrelevant by it being a two way road and not just one person being the main cause of it. The problem of sexism however also raises the problem of feminism and how girls are “mistreated” when however as stated previously it can go both ways. Due to woman being seen as a hinderance or a liability they automatically expect the males to take up the lack of dominance in the relationship on their side which is not technically fair to the