Saturday, April 13, 2013

"Boys will be Girls: Night Out"


I started watching videos made by these group of guys back in high school when my gender in america teacher showed it to the class. It's sort of an exaggerated/mockery of how men and women socialize differently (they reverse gender roles). Their (body) language and vocal selection is being played out how Lakoff explained in her article: men are distant, emotionless and statement-only speakers while women are physical, filled with emotion, and constantly phrasing sentence that demand for a follow up. How they act this out is disturbingly true (in my experience). Let me know what you think!

Women in Music

It is very stereotypical for people to think that country music is the least sexual music to listen to. I feel many parents would rather their children listen to country music vs. rap. I have heard the country music genre be called the 'safe music'. I dont know if any of you feel this way, and before taking this class I kind of did. I always thought women were represented better in country music songs compared to many other genres. However, I now see this is not the case.

I have never noticed before how negative a majority of lyrics were towards women. In pretty much every genre there is. I'm not bashing all music, because I myself listen to just about everything-- listening to various genres of music today simply made me think about how women are portrayed in most music. Even songs performed by women. What are your opinions about the music industry as a whole and how women are portrayed in lyrics?

Daniel Tosh Video



This video from Daniel Tosh hits on two points we have discussed in class! It jokes on 'womens punishment' for eating the apple in the Garden of Eden as well as gays finding a loop-hole in the system in order to not have to deal with women.

Although I enjoy watching Daniel Tosh on TV, I found these jokes a little offensive to women in general. Maybe I'm just overreacting. I'm very curious as to what you all think of this? Do you think jokes and things like this infulence our society in a negative way? Would stopping jokes like this help women be more respected in our society?!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT0yj-6VPrU 

Im a feminist . . . . now what?

One of my friends posted this on Facebook and I thought it was interesting. I personally do not think tat I am a feminist or at least i do not classify myself as one. I would just like to think that I am opinionated about things. But usually when I see feminist I see these images that are played out in the picture below. Do you see any feminist acting like the images shown or do you as a feminist believe that you display one of these actions? Or is it more that you claim to be a feminist and then don't do anything to solve the problems that you recognize are in society? How do you show that you are a feminist. I know, a lot of questions, but I am just interested in seeing how it is for others who do  or do not consider themselves feminist.




I Am Not a Commodity

Here is yet another picture I came across. No questions arise for me when I see this picture, but I it goes along with the other posts about the objectification of women that you guys have posted.

Also, I think it's kind of interesting that the women in this picture appears to be of a different ethnicity. Could this go into the authors that we discussed in class that talked about black feminism and feminism of minorities versus "white girl" feminism? Also, I think that this can play into the post about Sarah Bartman. This women doesn't appear to be black, but perhaps the same objectification applies to other non-european women as well? What do you guys think?

The Feminism Fairy Godmother

I found this comic strip very accurate and cute as well. What else do you think feminism has and will bring about for women who accept and follow it? Well, besides a deep understanding of how unjust and biased our current societal structure is (which we all have learned).

Men Doing a "Woman's Job"? That's Crazy Talk!

Ok so I know a lot of pictures and what not, but I find that I'm better able to work off of these than I am coming up with my own topic, so bare with me...

Here's a cartoon clip that I came across. Sadly, I think it accurately portrays the way a lot of women think about society and themselves. Also, the fact that women believe this, makes me think: what does that say about society that women are led and encouraged to believe something so well, crazy? What do you guys think? What other things come to mind when you see this comic strip?