In response to britt-toapha's post "Dealing with the gender issue through politics"

I feel like the progress that has been made for gender equality is extremely important, and that hopefully though every women's rights movement making progress there will be more changes to this inequality. However, since women's movements have been happening for decades now and we still can't say that we have gained equal opportunities to men, who knows how much longer it will be until these issues start to resolve. I feel that the points that were brought up in this post about government are extremely important when considering why changes haven't been made. I also believe that society will always be a contributor to the inferior status of women. If women are always going be viewed as a lesser version of men because of history, then we are never going to be taken seriously.

In Lorber's article, she discusses how cultural assumptions come from biological differences between genders. If biological differences are constantly going to be emphasized when considering social norms, then women are never going to be taken seriously in a society where the masculine characteristics are valued so much more. We can't change the biology of men and women, but we can change the way that masculinity has been associated with superiority and femininity being associated with inferiority. The double binds involved in this superiority-inferiority binary shouldn't and can't continue to favor men, when men and women are behaving in the same manner.