Is there still gender bias in America? (Q&A9)

Is there still a biased society in America today on women or are we making progress? 

Today in most parts of where I have lived it seems that people treat gender with a sense of neutrality, or at least they seem to talk about it in that way (but who knows what they could really believe). This view could just be enforced by the fear of the law as today stresses that sexual harassment in the work place and in general is wrong. Still there is a broad scale of standpoints in America and throughout the world that have not reached a level of moral maturity or critical thinking that sees through the idea of supremacy among gender. Some radical feminists for example tend to do the opposite of what most feminists are advocating, the radical one’s express that females have a superiority over men. As much as I prefer the company of women over men, I still think that both genders should have equal standing on all grounds. The exception being anatomical implications of gender. For we would not prescribe “the pill” for a male as that would be doing little good for the man it was prescribed for.

As much as I wanted to believe we were making the progress in moral activity, the recent presidential election arises some concerns. It seems illogical that birth control issues should be of any consideration within the law as most people who are Pro-life have a religious background. This is not to say someone should have abortions left and right, but if someone was raped for instance or the pregnancy was by failed birth control that the impregnated woman should have a say about the baby. The opposition, about a 1/3 or so of the country, seems to have forgotten the principles of America and its division of church and state. It is religious affiliations in most cases that often prevents critical thinking and allows an individual to only have a narrow scope in terms of ideas such as freedom and equality (this is not to say all Christians are woman haters or anything like that, but for some of these religious affiliated people male supremacy is something they believe to be almost a divine right). 

Everyone is a person who will be different from everyone else. This is the main idea of Standpoint theory. Although we can not discover who is more right by this method, we can have an awareness of how a particular person feels on a matter based on who they are and their experiences. To demonstrate how gender affiliations are obsolete, especially today, I will use an example from my own life. My girlfriend likes football. I do not. Men are typically characterized to be interested in football, but in this case it is a female who likes the sport instead of the male. This stereotypical opinion on how men like this sport can show a male and female having a gender reversal on a particular topic. Although this is sort of a silly example, it could be demonstrated to show how a form of progress in gender identity and equality can be forming in America and hopefully the stretch of the planet.