In Regardning the Pain of Others, Sontag links the concept of war to other factors such as culture and status but mainly gender. Although men might like the thought of war better than women, the imagery of war both unite men and women with the same feeling. Sontag says, “They sinplify…they create the illusion of consensus.” The same shock of war pictures cannot help but bring men and women to the same consensus that war is negative and must be stopped.