Another issue that manifests through this process is that eating meat is a symbolically masculine act, so arguably eating meat perpetuates sexism. Critic Amy Calvert suggests that the act of eating meat is representative of humans’ dominion over nonhuman animals, and that the image of meat eating has prevailed through the idea of “man as hunter”. Now, “man as hunter” puts forth a binary: hunter versus hunted, or superior versus subordinate. This relationship could apply to nonhuman animals, but it can also apply to women. Essentially, this idea favors the man over the other, establishing male as dominant while not-male (female or animal) is subordinate. Moreover, because meat eating is literally consuming flesh this can also be related to taking in or dominating what is being consumed, and in this instance meat can be paralleled with the feminine body. Calvert later discusses how the naturalization of meat focused diets furthers speciesism, specifically the idea of human supremacy. This all indicates that the culture of eating meat extends the supremacy of the patriarchy. Scholars often debate how and why the male-dominant nature of our society prevails when we have such strong feminist movements and we have made such strides against a world in which the sexes are unequal yet we ignore the fundamental issues which perpetuate the patriarchy. We teach children from a young age that to be male, to act male is to be normal and anything “other” is abnormal; this system is problematic because little girls learn early on that they are intrinsically less than boys and little boys learn that they are always a cut above girls.