Smash the Patriarchy: Gay Equality Means Fighting Patriarchy & Male Privilege

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Anti-Prop 8 Protest in Pittsburgh
Photo © Bonnie Cline, 2008}

It’s difficult to argue that bans on gay marriage are a form of sex discrimination because no one gender is being singled out for inferior treatment. However, it is a form of discrimination which relies upon the same assumptions about gender and gender roles which also lie behind more common and direct examples of sex discrimination. Attacks are gay marriage are thus an effort to defend traditional heterosexual gender roles and patriarchal conceptions of marriage.

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