Young's View Of Sexism

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A group, the Men, uses one of Young's five faces of oppression, cultural imperialism. The men think they're superior due to the idea of being dominant and the women are submissive. Even now, men still use jokes --that are actually insults to the women-- such as "You throw like a girl," "women belong in the kitchen," including all the other sexist jokes found in http://www.laughfactory.com/jokes/sexist-jokes. Plenty of these jokes imply that men are higher of quality and are more valuable in life. Another way to show their superiority is that they objectify women by catcalling and checking them out to think of them sexually; forgetting they're human too. Men view women as trophies. Meaning, they will make use of women as an accessory to look