http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WjLG4c5sD8&feature=related
This is interesting, i like the part when she talks about Hannah Montana. even though it isnt what im really ment to be looking for the rest speaks strongly about how young men see women and how we feel we need to look to be wanted.
We don't have to be looking for a specific thing, any form of gender examples is great sure. I have watched a lot of beauty pageant documentaries, especially the sensationalism of them in America. They look like china dolls, caked in make-up and most are so unbelievably spoilt they are so unattractive in that sense. It always annoys me that their specific talent is almost always singing or dancing.
ReplyDeleteWhat would solve this is just telling every single child that they are beautiful no matter what. A lot of people feel unloved and unwanted.
Women and men are both seen as objects so we can't exactly change this. Girls will always look at a boy and think they are fit or not and vice versa...it's just human nature. I'm not totally convinced that women are used any more so than men. Women just see it as an injustice whereas men don't particularly care as much.
i think its more the way SOME men speak to women, im not saying all men are the same but if i stereotype for a second here and refer to builders. the ones that hand off scaffolding and wolf whistle as you walk past and shout things. i think thats wrong, we are not sex objects and are not there for men to look at in that certain way, fair enough to look at someone and think aww he's a babe and vice versa but when you are being shouted at across a street or when men think its alright for them to grab parts of you when your out dancing with your pals. Do not understand why some men think that is remotly acceptible ????? (sorry my spelling is rottin!!!!!)
ReplyDeleteYeah that is really wrong. I think women should just stick up for themselves when things like that happen, otherwise the person will continue to do it. I hate when guys touch me up when I'm on a night out but some women love the attention. I think men just think all women are like that.
ReplyDeleteI think its important that we don't stereotype as we've all been saying all along but it's impossible. Some women are as bad as the men described and vice versa. Both sexes should be respectful to one another but it'll never happen, there will always be 'some'.
ReplyDeleteIt seems to me that things like wolf whistling and 'groping' are almost done to show off when in the company of the same sex (as well as for personal 'fulfilment'...) A wolf whistle in front of your mates is almost a plea for approval, a show of status and it wouldn't happen if you had a member of the opposite sex within this group.
I also found Megans' comment interesting that the children in pageants are often 'are so unbelievably spoilt they are so unattractive in that sense.' Do you think this leads to the stereotype that socially beautiful girls can often seen as unpleasant, spoilt or even dumb? (I'm thinking Paris Hilton here.)
It seems the stereotype is even worse for male models(see Zoolander.)