Men and Women in Society

WOW.

I've always known women were victims to advertisers all around the world. The ideal woman is always in our faces, the advertisers put sexy, thin, white women on everything we know, clothes, food, sunglasses, everything. More than that "sexy women" sells more. After seeing Killing us softy it made me realize the gravity of this problem. It was sad and insightful all at once. It opened my eyes to how I visualize women and how I treat my female friends. Which is never in a bad way but I still feel a need to protect them from the world because they seem lost and fragile but I guess that was part of my programming since I was young. Growing up my friends always talked about girls mainly their looks never their qualities like intelligence or creativity or artistic aspects to their persona. I am ashamed of my world sometimes but I know things can change and it's usually taking responsibility one person at a time. I feel everybody should watch this video because it will enlighten everybody. A call to men was more relatable because I got a chance to mirror myself, to compare myself to the things being said. I am also from harlem and walking around my neighborhood you see bad things, not as bad as earlier times, but nonetheless you still see bad things. Usually the guys walk around with angry faces and a attitude or as some would call it "swag". When I was young I once got into a fight at school and I remember my parents both Mother and Father telling me to stop crying and to learn to fight back, they said if I came home crying and bruised again they would hit me. I was confused and scared. Since that time I learned to be tough and not get pushed around to never forget men are providers and leaders, we hunt. I think this relates to chapter five because through socialization we become aware of the spoken and unspoken rules of interaction, teaches us to think and feel. There within exist our societal makeup. Since this view of men and women dates back as far as the beginning of time we are born into a world which is already shaped, so we have to fit into this shape and if we don't we're outcast, pushed aside. See I was never born with a set of views I was taught them through forceful and subtle ways. Parents telling me what and how I should act, mass media doing the same. I still have hope for the future of the world because we are finding the means to spread information at rates that we couldn't before, thanks to the internet. Since we can share ideas like A call to men our children have a chance to change the world we have the power not to shape our children's lives but instead show them how to create their own.