'Be a man, come on toughen up a bit, you can do better than that.'
Oh, yes, harsh words, very harsh. Men, you're supposed to be tough, girls are the weak one's, get it right. Not that that's really realistic it's just the way we were brought up, we were brought up believing that women work in kitchens and men work in garages, oh, yes very realistic, very Brady Bunch. We're also brought up thinking that men are the dominant powerful ones, and women have difficulty fending for themselves, all thanks to television and advertisements. Oh, the shame, and I thought we'd improved in the last hundred years. We start watching television from a very young age and are therefore influenced, commercials are the worst, men are always seen driving the cars while women are seen cleaning the dishes, oh how very, brutally sexist.
"Please, be more ladylike, sit up straight, cross your legs"
Yes, that is a common phrase women hear from a very young age from their grandmother's. It's so when we grow older we become proper young ladies. Well, there's nothing wrong with that, but slouching and sitting with your legs uncrossed doesn't make you any less of a lady, just like being tough doesn't make you anymore of a man.
Women are known to show more emotion and are typically physically weaker than men, but that's biology and that can't be changed, it's the assumption that women can't do things the way men can, the assumption that women can't fix a car or work in a factory-not that it'd necessarily be enjoyable.
Women are known to show more emotion and are typically physically weaker than men, but that's biology and that can't be changed, it's the assumption that women can't do things the way men can, the assumption that women can't fix a car or work in a factory-not that it'd necessarily be enjoyable.
Women are also more sexualized in advertisements (see women in advertisements) while if men were shown in that same advertisement he would appear to be very conservative or very dominant and he'd be doing something manly, like climbing a mountain. Women are weak, and men are strong, that's the way it's been and that's the way it will continue-in advertisements at least, unfortunately that effects society and the way women and men are viewed.
Works Cited:
Albany. Women in Advertising.. 16 Jan. 2008 http://www.albany.edu/~aw5959/.
Works Cited:
Albany. Women in Advertising.. 16 Jan. 2008 http://www.albany.edu/~aw5959/.
