A responce to "Sexism"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CWMCt35oFY


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8O8p0Ac1Rg


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So I found these videos on you tube. They state how gender stereotypes have been in disney films then ingrained into us as children. The third link sounds like the same girls who did a video for a class that is also posted on you tube. The fact that they are asked to pick the material to pieces in a negative way is very sad.So I decided there should be a rebuttal for these videos, especially from a woman, since that is who they are really geared towards.


The video that says women are portrayed as pretty, with perfect hair, make-up and figure as well as being cleaners and cooks, and men portrayed as "alpha male" with muscles, machismo and charm really deserves something.
  Of course the women are portrayed that way! Since cave man days we have been the ones to keep the home clean, raise the children and make sure the men didn't have to do everything. We took some of the burden off the men so that they could provide food, clothing and shelter. It takes a lot of time to cook and clean. the men work hard all day and should not have to come home to a semingly lazy woman who leaves the care of everything for him. I can tell you from my own life that it makes the men depressed, short tempered, and unwilling to come home in the first place. They want to fell that they are doing the manly thing by comeing home to clean children, clean home, clean wife and a hot meal. The waistlines and curves are because they signal to men that we are fertile. That we have been through puberty. They are very feminine characteristics. I like that I have a natural hour glass figure. How much of that figure each woman has is decided by how much estrogen is in the body during puberty. More curvey = more hormone, less curvey = less hormone. Why fault yourself for that.? IT's the way you were made, and the way you walk and dress is what will tell a guy you are female. Not a Disney movie. However, I will say that guys are divided on heels. But i suspect most of that is from them being around so long and haveing it be a sign of either looking for sex or being feminine. I've heard my own dad call them stupid shoes.

     Now the video about masculinity portrayal. Since before time was recorded muscles have signified a healthy physique and greater ability to provide food, shelter and protection. That's why the prince rescues the princess. IT plays on the rescue aspect ingrained in all of us that Disney clearly understood. The heroes and princes are portrayed as muscled and macho, that "alpha male" thing because that is what primal female mind looks for. I can back that up with this. When dating , before I met my husband, (and i hadn't thought about this until recently and was quick to jump into my mind) I was looking for a man who could protect, provide, was healthy and had an honorable way of looking at things. Yes, honor. I wasn't looking for a rich husband to provide for our family. I was looking for someone who would provide ina hard working, no-nonsense kind of way.

    These videos also try to tell us that we shouldn't listen to these gender roles and should teach our children that gender roles are bad. Well phooey! I like to clean! I like having a clean home! I like being able to be dressed nice or feminine for my husband, maybe even with some make-up, to let him know that I care what he sees when he is home. I don't like looking slovenly or unkempt or lazy(pajamas in public are bad!). I like being able to take some of the household burden from him and let him be the "alpha male" in the family and be able to relax after a hard days work!

  And those physical atributes these videos say we shouldn't want in men?! He has them. including the heavy brow that was portrayed on the beast and Tarzan as masculine (liked it before the movie was even made). Guess what. That heavy brow is proven to be a very masculine trate, as well as a deep voice and the muscles.
 
     So if you have a problem with masculinity, real masculinity or real feminity then you need to rethink they way humanity is hard wired, and remember that we have been fed a lot of garbage that says we shouldn't be masculine or feminine, or even want to be. Gender roles are not a problem, They are a solution. MEn and women would be happier if they were told they were worth just as much at home (for women) and at work ( the men) than the other way around. I am convinced that depression and anxiety are so rampant because we've been told gender roles should be reversed. Gender roles are ingrained in the way our minds work. Going against it just causes problems.

      That being said. All you women out there who like to play the "Victim" while you trample your men and children under you are sad examples of women and I am sick and tired of you! move aside and let the real women step in if you can't stand the role you put yourself in! If you didn't like being the queen your house and sharing the burden of married and family life then why did you even bother? It's women  little girls like you who give women a bad name.

Election Day

     Did you vote today? I did. In fact, i went after my childs last lesson of the day. Art sladd was entertaining. See the side bar for why. 

     So voting is important. You should vote. I won't tell you who to vote for, just that it is important to vote.


   Personally I voted for as few women as possible. As a woman, I fell we have no place in politics as any thing we could do becomes a power struggle between men and women. I also feel women should be home taking care of the family instead of butting into processes where they don't belong. 

    Think i'm wrong? How many lobbying groups are run by women? Now haw many of those have stopped job growth or american trade in the last 40 years? How many groups that are run by women have repressed women more than men have in the last hundred years? I point out that, personnally, I felt repressed when women told me, growing up, that i had to do something other than what I am doing right now, to be successful in life.k

     That's why I voted for as few women as possible. Women don't have to hold office or run a country to be strong, independent or feminine. I think we should leave so much of that to the men, and take back the home.