Here's an Interesting Thought...
Well here's the promised deep post I mentioned. Sex and media, the two go hand in hand. We see it everywhere from ads to even anime. The problem with it all today is the fact that we haven't changed from viewing women as objects. I can name one example, the TAG antipersprent commercials. I don't understand why any girl would find a guy sexy if he applies said product and immediately want to have sex or try to arouse him. Now to my female readers I doubt any of you find the TAG products nice smelling in any way (I don't even think they smell all that special and I'm a guy) and I doubt if a guy did wear it and tried to hit on you you'd probably mace him.
Now the whole point I'm trying to get at is for a country that says we respect the opposite sex and showing commercials and portraying women like this makes me want to punch myself in the face. I tell this to some of my friends, being a History major just makes you hate America a whole lot more than usual. Last year in my spring semester I took an American History class and the professor (although requiring a lot of essays) did an excellent job of portraying American past. We're a country that opressed entire races and sexes. When it came to the topic of women, it seems like society doesn't want to stress equality. We have television shows that show the "proper" role of women as housewives as to keep women in thier place. Of course this was the time of when the womens' movement was starting up. From there women would struggle for equality and the right to vote. Well from that part of what seems like something ripped straight out of a research paper, I'm basically trying to say "good job America" sarcastically.
I'm being sarcastic because now people don't really respect women anymore. It shames me to think that a girl wouldn't trust guys anymore. I think that it stems from the fact that women don't think guys respect them as women. Since most guys views on women stem from media, which causes them to see them as sex objects. I can understand this because once again I'm a History major and I'm required to think critically and support my views with evidence. To my male readers (you know who you are), women want to be treated with respect; they didn't struggle to get the right to vote, to work outside of home and to be independent for nothing. So lets get it into our thick man skulls that women want to be treated with respect. So lets all try to be gentlemen for once in our lives.
However, don't go overboard with being a gentleman and all. It's kind of like with what happened to me a while back. My roomate and I offered to walk a girl back to her apartment, I know she didn't want to trouble us and all, my roomate and I tried to let her know it was no trouble, but in the end she ended up going back alone. I didn't feel bad that I didn't walk her back, because her stressing her independence was noble. I respect that in any girl, since once again women gained that independence much harder than men did. But really I look at media and people today and see that people are not going forward but backwards. We are once again treating women as objects, which strips them of what they struggled to gain independence and equality. So lets not fall for the tricks shown to us by the garbage I call American television.
Now the whole point I'm trying to get at is for a country that says we respect the opposite sex and showing commercials and portraying women like this makes me want to punch myself in the face. I tell this to some of my friends, being a History major just makes you hate America a whole lot more than usual. Last year in my spring semester I took an American History class and the professor (although requiring a lot of essays) did an excellent job of portraying American past. We're a country that opressed entire races and sexes. When it came to the topic of women, it seems like society doesn't want to stress equality. We have television shows that show the "proper" role of women as housewives as to keep women in thier place. Of course this was the time of when the womens' movement was starting up. From there women would struggle for equality and the right to vote. Well from that part of what seems like something ripped straight out of a research paper, I'm basically trying to say "good job America" sarcastically.
I'm being sarcastic because now people don't really respect women anymore. It shames me to think that a girl wouldn't trust guys anymore. I think that it stems from the fact that women don't think guys respect them as women. Since most guys views on women stem from media, which causes them to see them as sex objects. I can understand this because once again I'm a History major and I'm required to think critically and support my views with evidence. To my male readers (you know who you are), women want to be treated with respect; they didn't struggle to get the right to vote, to work outside of home and to be independent for nothing. So lets get it into our thick man skulls that women want to be treated with respect. So lets all try to be gentlemen for once in our lives.
However, don't go overboard with being a gentleman and all. It's kind of like with what happened to me a while back. My roomate and I offered to walk a girl back to her apartment, I know she didn't want to trouble us and all, my roomate and I tried to let her know it was no trouble, but in the end she ended up going back alone. I didn't feel bad that I didn't walk her back, because her stressing her independence was noble. I respect that in any girl, since once again women gained that independence much harder than men did. But really I look at media and people today and see that people are not going forward but backwards. We are once again treating women as objects, which strips them of what they struggled to gain independence and equality. So lets not fall for the tricks shown to us by the garbage I call American television.
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