According to the World Health Organization, women in the US are victims of intimate partner violence at a rate about five times that of men, and the United Nations has found that the most common form of violence experienced by women around the world is physical violence inflicted by an intimate partner.
While men experience much lower rates of violence, and are privileged in many respects, it’s both naïve and harmful to ignore the ways in which macho culture negatively affects their psyches.
Sexism is detrimental to society as a whole and should be examined as a cultural and systematic structure. Thoroughly understanding the effects it has on women as well as men can help reduce all manifestations of violence. Since gender is a performance, men are not inherently more violent, so this behavior can certainly be changed.....
1. Causes Emotional Repression
2.Encourages Aggression and Violence
3. Perpetuates One Dimensional Representations
4.Damages Relationships
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