Sexism In To Kill A Mockingbird

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We go around seeing people doing undertakes as such as talking to someone, someone else despises for no reason. Despite the fact we might not see eye to eye to a person’s quirks and attributes but, we are raised to know that we deal with someone else’s traits because we know them or been in their position before. We've educated that everyone is not perfect but we still make fun of other people’s flaws without knowing them, but why is it important to be able to see thing from someone else’s perspective as demonstrated in To Kill a Mockingbird and people today shaming women.
Jean Louise “Scout” Finch is a six-year-old girl in the book To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, is given a discourse by her father, Atticus Finch, about why it is important
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I had to go to the nurse’s office and was given a long sleeve shirt to cover up myself and the boys said that I was inappropriate for doing that and had the audacity to tell my eight-year-old self I was trying to get a “boyfriend.” The problem with sexism is that it’s sneaky. We find it in indirect standpoint and microaggressions or in proclamations that seem innocuous at first but, rely on implicit assumptions about women’s correct roles in the public. This sexism is hard to identify because a lot of people don’t even realize they’re doing it. I think most individuals, for example, aren’t going through their lives deliberately thinking women are shameful. But that doesn’t mean many of them don’t participate in and perpetuate a culture that dehumanizes women purely for existing. Of course, men aren’t the only ones who shame women. Nor are women the only victim of gender directed shaming. Gender cliche and biases work in all specifications; men get bashed for acting feminine, and women for being too feminine and not feminine enough. But it usually seems to come down to an inference that femaleness is inadmissible, and that by virtue of their gender, women are incompetent to convey for themselves, regulate their lives, or ascendancy their bodies than men. Often, men with