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?

The Ugly Truth

So, I found this movie trailer coming up in April, calls "The Ugly Truth." It seems like there is tons of women and men's gender differences.  The first thing got my attention was that the woman and man icon things.  Woman figure has the heart on the head but man figure has on the penis.  I thought it's very stereotypical.  And in the trailer, she was excited about the man she met who is a surgeon.  This is also showing that women supposed to get married with high salary or high status guys.  I am not trying to blame this movie or anything like that, I actually like this like of movie, yes.  I just thought it is interesting.  

Movies

I was forced to watch the new Angelina Jolie movie "wanted" last night and it made me realize that if a women is the leading action person in the movie that they are always beautiful and sexy. I started to think about it and realized that there isn't a single movie that if the lead action hero is women and she isn't viewed as a sex symbol. I also realized the same for men. Most of the time if the lead action hero is a man then he is also viewed as a sex symbol. The question I present to the blog is can an action hero be an effective action hero without being sexy?

Gender Based Insurance rates

I linked an article on the title "Gender Based Insurance rates." This is the news article obviously about Insurance rates based on gender.  Women pay more than men.  I still do not understand why women need to pay more than men.  If I go with traditional view of men and women, men are the one who work outside and higher risk of danger and women take care themselves better than men.  Even if I don't think traditionally, science proves that men have higher risk of getting heart attack than women do.  I do not know that how they calculate, but I believe it there should not be some difference BASED ON gender.

American society does focus a great deal on the perfect body, but think about the face as well. I mean there's so much airbrushing done on these celebrities and models. They also use tons of make-up, even on men. Perfect skin and hair also plays a huge role on how Americans define beauty. Also think about how much money these products cost. It is such an effective advertising strategy. Wear this 20 dollar bottle foundation and you'll look like this movie star.
I think at least some of them are starting to make progress but this perception has been going on for decades so changing it will probably take twice as long