Male-Chauvinism

Chauvinism originally means excessive、unreasonable or extreme patriotism. Today, when mention about Chauvinism we usually regard as Male-Chauvinism which means men should always be better and more powerful than women. As we know, women have been treated unfairly no matter in the West or the East. Because of native difference, it is so hard to judge the edge of equalization that people still have been aspiring for equality.

Male-Chauvinism is just like a monster’s shadow which has been following behind women for more than five thousand years. Besides abridge women in houses and constrain their talent, most women had to stand the abuse of their spirit. What’s more, according to Marxist each family is a social factory because it produced power of labors. It had been a long time that perpetuation of the existing stratification system and sex stereotype had crucify women.

In 18 century, industrial revolution had brought a huge transition. Even women had to go to factory and worked as low-cost labors. As well as nursery school had become more and more popular, woman had realized their importance and they started to ask for the sexual equality.

Nowadays, feminist has raised; Sex-role revolution so far seems successful. However, we haven’t acquired the true equality. In Taiwan, not only most young women refuse to sacrifice themselves as a slave, but also men can’t accept this kind of thought so they’d rather to marriage a foreign bride without love basis. Those problems produce more other problems, such as education and act of discrimination. It proved that people are still live under Chauvinism.

Chauvinism is still widely discussed to day and the revolution seems never ending in human being’s history. Here comes the problem again—why history instead of herstory? In fact, we can’t compose human being’s miracle without each single sex. How to respect and use oppositely characteristics well is a big lesson all we have to study.