Women and Men
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One of the most constant themes of Western - and non-Western - cultures is that women need the protection of men. All of the discrimination that women have faced - their confinement to domestic spaces, their lack of enfranchisement, their limited career opportunities, their higher rates of incarceration in insane asylums, their being sold through marriage and dowry systems - all of these arise from and are justified by the fact that women are the weaker sex. And this weakness is not only metaphorical but also real: Women are physically weak, unable to lift as much as men, or run as fast, or hit a golf ball as accurately. Women are weak, so the story goes from Phoenicia to Troy to Rome to Washington DC. And because they are weak and need the pro
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Washington DC, , physical strength, women considered,
Approximate Word count = 503
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page)
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