Sexism And Bigotry: Museum Of Tolerance In N. Y.

Diuvska N. Quiñones August 26, 2013
Professor G. Pieri
Sexism and Bigotry. By definition the term sexism means prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women, on the basis of sex; in restricted job opportunities; especially, such discrimination directed against women. As well a bigot is a person who is intolerant of any ideas other than his or her own, especially on religion, politics, or race. As I researched for this paper in the Museum of Tolerance in N.Y., I learned that the human mind makes 11 assumptions about a person in the first 7 seconds of meeting them. We must be aware of this in order to take a positive action rather than a negative approach based on false assumptions. Is it fair to say that everyone
I wish I were a man, I'd join the Navy. Be a man and do it - United States Navy recruiting station (artist Howard Chandler Christy 1917). The poster showing a young woman in a Navy uniform during World War I.” As I read and saw the visual I was livid not only about the sexism, but also about the exploitation of woman through the painting as sexual objects… How is it that we live in a world where in some countries it is a crime to be born a female? We live in a time where one out of three women is victimized by men (father, brothers, uncles, husband, or boyfriend). They experiment domestic abuse, traditional abuse, rape, and are trafficked… In some cultures if a woman is proven to have committed adultery she will be murdered or maimed (honor killings). These crimes are committed against women in the name of religion. A man will take sexual control over a woman by sexual organ mutilation or female circumcisions; which is practiced without any medical training and is commonly performed in countries like Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. This procedure is done lacking anesthesia and bring infections, shock, and death due to hemorrhage. In Kenya a women’s advocacy group has developed the term “Circumcision through Words” in order to prevent the female
With the discipline to hold back and learn to co-exist, to respect thy fellow human and to pursue in harmony our goals as a positive society. In my walk through the museum I came upon a section entitled GlobalHate.com which features touch screen computer terminals that have unmasked the danger of a one sided story; the story of hatred. The proliferation of hate through the internet is greater than I thought, in fact it showed me how extremely saturated it actually is. The Khakriz Cultural Institute or KCI is an Iranian institution with an on-line fifty-seven page book, which claims that the Holocaust genocide was a lie. The Fateh Kids is a HAMAS site which published a comic strip in which “EVIL ZIONISTS” made beautiful toys that were actually bombs that were used to kill innocent Palestinians; they also used this comic strip to recruit children to become