The ongoing debate [including on this blog] about the whether women in the law should conform to the dominant
male legal culture often plays out as a question of what is the correct attire, in court, in the office and with clients.
Not exact matches
«The most important moral and
legal rule concerning the physiological side of kinship,» he wrote in Sex,
Culture, and Myth, «is that no child should be brought into the world without a man — and one man at that — assuming the role of sociological father, that is, guardian and protector, the
male link between the child and the rest of the community.»
14 Humankind maintains a
legal way of thinking about equality, which was created by Aristotle:
legal equality is to treat similarly situated people alike.15 Therefore, «equality» becomes the right to be treated like the white
male given that white man's
culture is the dominant
culture.16 In this way, when people are not similarly situated we should not treat them equally.
It is no longer
legal to advertise job openings under «female» or «
male» headings, but our
culture still tends to classify many jobs this way.