So I found this video and article on the onion. I find that using comedy in this way shows how absurd that the media and politicians can be. Lately there has been a lot of coverage on people's opinions of rape. I feel that rape is rape and is nothing less. I don't understand how people, in real life, can act almost like the people in this video or article. While both being funny, afterwards it reminds me of how horrible some people can be to innocent victims.
I was looking at Tumblr one day and I saw a post mentioning how women who have been raped are always stated to be someone's daughter and that's why they shouldn't be raped. While that may be true, how about she shouldn't get raped because she's a person? Do you think calling a rape victim someone's daughter is controversial?
Here is a trailer for the film OZ, though it doesn't necessarily show everything I wrote about.
During spring break, I went to see Oz, and in the middle of the film, I was struck by how oppressive it is to women. The movie starts of with James Franco(Oz) seducing women with his magic tricks. It is insinuated that he does this to many women, as he is part of a traveling circus. The women are portrayed as dumb and easily tricked by his magic, so much so that they fall in love with him. Franco's assistant even says that the last girl who worked with them quit because she had a broken heart. All of the main characters in the film are sexualized. They wear tight clothes, often baring much cleavage, and are wearing corset which I doubt are easy to breathe in. The "good witch" is mentioned many times as being extremely beautiful, and is placed on a pedestal because of this. She is seen, by the audience, as superior. All the women were also white, which I found interesting. Here is where I will place a SPOILER ALERT if you have not seen the movie.
The most appalling part was when Mia Kunis(Theadora the good witch) turns into an evil witch. She does this because she is heartbroken, as Franco told her they would be together forever, and then goes on to be with another witch. She sees this and is so torn apart that becomes the evil witch, and wants to kill Franco as her goal in life. She does whatever she can to do this. I hated this part because her evil is solely based on her apparent broken heart and this mans deception. I'm of course not saying deception is ok, but that fact that she changes her whole life and focuses only on getting revenge is ridiculous. This also lends itself to the stereotype of women being angry and spiteful if things do not go their way, or if they are broken up with. I did not at all expect to watch this movie and notice so many negative portrayals of women.
I was watching the news and I saw this new fixation on girls this time, the thigh gap. I felt so confused because always is something about women's body that has to be target as imperfect. When are we going to be accepted as we are?
I post an article for the huffington post and also a video tha shows this phenomenon.
"The thigh gap fixation can open a new window of conversation about low self-esteem caused by an excessive focus on appearance, which can be remedied by focusing on inner beauty and the non-physical things that make someone special."
You have to click on the link to read the complete article.
Girls in Japan are being paid to place temporary tattoos on their thighs as advertisements. The advertisements are placed primarily on young adults (18 >) in the space exposed by school girl skirts.
In honor of March Madness I have decided to post about one of the more revolutionary players of the women's basketball game. Senior Brittney Griner, a 6'8' center for Baylor was ousted from the NCAA tournament by Louisville last night but leaves behind a legacy for the sport. Her athleticism and skill has predicted her to be a number one pick in the WNBA draft. Women sports are often criticized for lacking the athleticism of the men's game. Griner, with her dunks, rebounds, and jump-shots has single-handily changed the women's game. So, the general consensus has been "she is a dude."
Taken from the featured article:
"So, to recap: Women's basketball is maligned for not being as athletic as the men's game, but as women become more athletic, these players are often labeled unfeminine, and therefore unwatchable."
To Consider: How do you think this double-standard in sports can be overcome? Do you think its possible for women to have the same fan-base as male sports? Can a women have incredible athletic prowess and not be compared to a man?
I found this video and I felt really upset for two reasons. First because is a video of a tribe and the guys who are recording they treat them as clowns and second because they record a girl and by doing this, the girl seems uncomfortable but she stays there because they are offering food to all the group of the tribe.
What it is sad is that we sometimes do not act humanly, we believe we have the right humiliate people just because we believe we are superior as westerns.
"CNN broke the news on Sunday of a guilty verdict in a rape case in Steubenville, Ohio by lamenting that the "promising" lives of the rapists had been ruined, but spent very little time focusing on how the 16-year-old victim would have to live with what was done to her."
This seems to be yet another perpetrator of the accepted "Rape Culture" in our society today, I would like to here some of your opinions on this. How do you think the media should have responded and does this seem right to you? Is it is CNN's job to give an unbias account of events?
