Defending Marriage: Twelve Arguments For Sanity

This in effect liberates the solicitor from any repercussions, and deprecates the value of intimacy, love and respect associated with meaningful and lasting relationships. Should this solicitor then enter into an enduring relationship, such as marriage, and not have his sexual needs met on his terms, he might turn to a willing sex worker to obtain this gratification. This in effect undermines the sanctity of marriage, as the promise of committing to your partner alone is broken due by engaging in extramarital affairs. 2.3 Position Argument In this paper, the author has elected to adopt a position in favour of the decriminalisation of sex work. The author does not condone the act of selling one’s body for material gains per se, but rather wish to advocate for social justice and the freedom of choice for people selecting to enter this profession.

In the article “For Gay Marriage,” author Andrew Sullivan claims that denying the act over the controversial issue of legalizing marriage to homosexuals is the most offensive act pertaining to their communal tolerance. The main plea amplifies that the religious customs, state affairs, and the accustomed marriage is noted as acceptable in today’s society. Sullivan states that he is not getting into what churches do in their open biblical session, but what he believes the state should be more involved and take action to fix the social acceptance among homosexuals. By putting together that homosexuals should have the same basic rights as heterosexuals including marriage sparks the author to suggest that homosexuals are just as financially independent

When debating the legalization of same sex marriage, religious reasoning and accusations of bigotry often provoke obstinance. Instead of reiterating those arguments, William J. Bennett, a prominent cultural conservative, former secretary of education, and author of The Book of Virtues, focuses on societal effects in his op-ed article, “Against Gay Marriage.” Though Bennett’s piece conveys partiality, it also attempts to discuss this issue scrupulously to ensure readers will consider his argument and perhaps accept his implications. While some of Bennett’s word choices convey tolerance of the gay community, his rhetoric incites readers to accept that preserving society requires marginalizing homosexuals. Bennett’s use of the word “discovered”

freedom. Anita Bryant and candidates who run against Milk emphasize how homosexuality goes against God, therefore, it should be illegal. They believe that homosexuals should be outcasted and their freedom infringed upon, favoring inequality. While the LGBTQ soicety favors equality and believes that no matter one’s sexual preference they are entitled to freedom. This growing controversy can be related to whether or not same sex marriage be allowed.

The participant believed in the idea that we must examine our borders and what society believes to be acceptable. Therefore, through this analyzes we must be in solidarity with our women partners rather than against them. We might not be able to speak of their experiences, but we can be understanding of their feelings. The first participant argues that “unless you are a cisgender wealthy White Christian male, you have felt oppression, but maybe unaware because one has been realized to believe they have power and are not oppressed or they refuse to believe they have been oppressed because it all of a sudden becomes an indictment on them as a person, which is false (Interview 1).” Through social constructs and society, women are seen as inferior and men hating. However, by understanding sexism in, which makes a person teaches sexism without reproducing sexism, one is able to shift the cultural attitude present and push towards greater autonomy.

Despite showing that women, such as Charlotte, need to marry men they do not love just to gain financial security, Austen clearly believes that women are just as intelligent and capable as men are. Through Pride and Prejudice, she also shows that women’s inferior status in society is unjust and should not allow for women’s physical and mental capacity to be broken. This is very much different than Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein where women were invaded, murdered and thrown to the side just for the purpose of plot progression. The feminist politics of Shelley’s novel exist only for the purpose of man-- women are used to encourage action and create a masculine of production Shelley’s women are objectified, used and easily discarded while Austen’s characters are developed, free-thinking individuals who are given a voice throughout the

There’s a power balance between the three men and the two women in The Reeve 's Tale that is influenced by patriarchal values. The author limits actions performed by female characters to carry stereotypical assumptions of gender expectations. If you examine closely, the miller 's wife is unnamed purposefully because she is considered untrustworthy and invaluable. Also, any credibility that is given to a female, has to have a man present to accept those responsibilities. This formulates that women cannot exist without having some type of man to establish their credibility.

In addition, the existence of such resistance—i.e. the intersex not only disrupts the heteronormative ‘truth’ constructed through apparatus such as medical institutions in consolidating the male/female sex as binary opposition of truth, but poses members to question the male/female body and their essentiality. Moreover, in the case of the intersex, their existence presents society with not only an alternative body, but also threatens the heteronormative narrative of bodies as ‘natural’ embodiment of sex, acknowledging that ‘sex’ is merely social construct and the body is just an ‘inscriptive surface’ for masculinity, culture, and discourse to inscript and reinscript and assert its power as mentioned by Reeser (Reeser 91). Hence, the intersex are marginalised and asserted as a medical condition. An intersex, by definition describes a medical condition of individuals whose exterior genitalia does not synchronise with interior (chromosomes, hormones, internal sex organs).

Several Arab stories illustrate the oppression of women under patriarchal societies through controlling female sexuality that results in broken identities. In the Women of Sand and Myrrh, after Suzanne evidently enjoyed their lovemaking, Maaz reminds her of the traditional gender roles of women, “God created you to bear children, and to give pleasure to a man, and that 's all.” By saying this, he indicates that Suzanne should never delight in sex as it represents a purely functional purpose for women. The idea of sex as a process serving men alone perplexes Suzanne who asks what Maaz means, and he answers, “God created women to make children, like a factory. That 's the exact word, Suzanne. She 's a factory.

WHAT IS MARRIAGE is a journal article published by Harvard Journal Law and Public Policy, which argues against gay civil marriage. The authors made an assertion that the common good of our society would be damaged if the Supreme Court admitted the same-sex marriage. They explained this contention by listing the side effects that gay marriage may bring and defending conjugal view of marriage through illustrating the essential features of marriage. Yet, I disagree with the idea they claimed and I will break down some of their unsound arguments by illustrating the logical flaws behind them. To begin with, one of the serious consequences that gay civil marriage would cause they argued, is a potential public pressure that would force judges to