by Trimmy Carter

Created on: November 15, 2008

In nearly every modern culture, women are seen as subservient to men. In many cases, a woman is not as strong as a man physically, of course, but even more so mentally, since sexism fosters the same kind of inferiority in women as racism does in Blacks, and even until this day, women still make less money than men do in the same or similar occupations.

The whole idea that "masculine is the dominant gender" has been around a lot longer than what we see as "racism." There is a more concrete difference between a male and female than between a "black" man or "white man" or "Latino woman" or "Asian woman." Race comes from specific regions of the World and is only a term created by social cataclysmic events such as the North Atlantic Slave Trade in the case of so-called "African Americans" and Immigration Reform for so-called "Latino Americans." Two of the most persecuted and hated peoples the world has ever known, and will likely remain that way until the end of the American Way of Life.

The Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves in 1865, but when will women be free? Can women ever escape the need to impress men? If you do not understand what I am saying, turn on the television. Watch Lifetime. Women did not get the right to vote until the 1920s, not even one hundred years ago. One may ask, "How can a man understand women?" The answer is; men have the same problem and cannot escape the need to impress a woman anymore than the contrary. When are we going to realize that men and women are mutually inclusive? They feed off each other. Without both, there can be no culture, no race, or no people. This is why racism will fade before sexism. The suffering of African Americans will end and the suffering of women will continue to endure.

Western Society uses, for the most part Christianity, Judaism, and Islam as their cornerstones of morality. The Holy Bible, a book common to all three of these Abrahamic religions, sanctions the role of a woman as subordinate to the role of a man. For the New Testament believers turn to 1 Corinthians 11:3-16 especially verse eight. For the Old Testament turn to Genesis 3:1-21 especially verse 16. If Sexism is defined as discrimination for men and against women, then the Fundamentalist view can shoulder the blame for sexism.

As we just saw in a horrific, but historic, Presidential campaign, especially in the Democratic Primary, Hillary Clinton had a more difficult task conquering sexism than her more charismatic opponent; Barack Obama having

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