Sexual Assault/Rape

This is a very touchy subject for everyone. People don't realize that this unfortunately happens more often than we think and to people that we know and are friends with. I have a couple of friends that have been a victim of this and I have been a victim as well. It is very damaging to someone not only physically but mentally and emotionally. If you have a scar somewhere on your body look at it...Just like a scar on your body this is a scar that victims have. In our slides it says that 75% of rapes are committed by people that they know. How scary is that!? Rape should not ever be something that is common in the United States but it is and we need to do something about it. Unfortunately some victims do not report it and if they do they are told that the process will be grueling and they will make you out to be the bad person. How screwed up is that in this world! That infuriates me! I know the people I know who have suffered from this have had relationship problems and depression problems. Hopefully someday this won't be a common thing we have to deal with. For those of you that this happened to a family member or friend, just love them, support them and encourage them.

Rehab

Okay so this year there have been a few celebrities that have gone to rehab for drugs, alcohol, and whatever else reason there is. But I noticed that the ones that publicized and given alot of newstime are women. Look at Eva Mendes, Britney Spears, Tara Reid, Lindsay Lohan, Kirsten Dunst just to name a few. They are all women. You rarely hear about men going to rehab, why is it that? Why is it when women act out of their norm and not like the perfect lady it gets so much newstime...? It gets the front page of magazines or posted all over gossip sites and even television. I remember watching CNN one day and then all of sudden breaking news--Britney Spears Checks Into Rehab. It's ridiculous and unnecessary.

Gender bias on television shows

So for my project, i decided to take a closer look at the gender stereotypes that are portrayed on television. After i had done this, now all of the shows that i'm watching have gender sterotypes almost in every episode! My favorite one, which is very old school, but "I love Lucy". This is so stereotyped that the women stay and home and clean, cook, take care of the kids. Then for the men they are looked at as the breadwinners and rarely do naything around the house such as cooking or cleaning. I just found it so amazing that this show made gender stereotypes stand out so much.

In some of the shows today, more roles are being switched where men are doing the stay at home gig and women are out working. But it's still not really seen as muuch, and if it is.. it's just looked at as kind of weird!

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Too Skinny

The media is everywhere we look. I just can't get over how it portrays men and women. Everytime I look in a magazine I see it all the time. The men in the advertisements have the cutest body and they are perfect from head to toe. The women are the same they can practically fit into childrens clothes they are so skinny and their hair, makeup, clothes everything is perfect. They are also half naked. I understand sex sells but does it have to be at this level. It affects the audience in different ways. Yes it could make you buy the product they are endorsing but it also has negative affects on people. At times after I see ad after ad after ad with these perfect bodies internally I think oh well if only I had abs like her or perfect hair like her it would make me happier. It gets people down. For me it gets me when summer rolls around I have put up pictures of celebs I like on my fridge or mirror and I make that my goal to get skinny like them. Then I realize what Im doing and hit myself in the head because who wants to live like that, wanting the perfect body. That doesn't bring you happiness. Being happy with yourself makes you a happy person. I wish society and the media would change this but realistically its never going away.

Rescue

After seeing and hearing most of our projects last week I couldn't help but think that we are never going to escape it. Going back to children books where the female is always looking and needing to be rescued by the male. I was thinking of all the childrens movies that I used to watch like Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, the Little Mermaid they all have the male rescuing the female. What does that teach us? That women can't save themselves, that we need a male to come rescue us...In the past I have thought about this and my friends and I refer to it at times saying "All I need or want is prince charming to come sweep me off on his white horse and rescue me." That doesn't do any good. Why do have that mentality? It stems back to these movies and books and being told that when we were little. It's a nice thought but women don't always need a man to rescue them, we need to rescue eachother.

Gender bias on the internet

So earlier today, i was playing on the internet and came across one of those annoying adds. It was asking what type of job you want and right next to it had these little icons of characters playing those job roles. I realized that next the male dominated icons, was obviously a little male character. Like attourney, doctor, engineer, and cop. And next to the female gendered characters the jobs were nurse, assistant, and teacher. I just found it kind of funny that even on these little icons for jobs, it was being gender bias!

challenging gender role and categories

waht do you think about it?