In every day life there is a lot of sexism, especially regarding certain topics. I've talked about a few of them: male rape, that's a hot spot for sexism.
A more recently thread created on strippers, that was a big sexist thread.
Why is it that we assume, we as a society, (and I'm talking mainly western society so the rest of you can go pick dandelions) think that certain genders are more prone to doing certain things when they're actually not?
Females are not more likely to be strippers they are just paid more attention to because western society highly sexualized women rather than men, and due to that these young clad-dressed women who are stripping are stereotypically attributed to the job. What about prostitutes? Are we automatically thinking of poor, STD prone, defenseless and weak crack addicted women? Or do we stop to consider the high market of male prostitutes, a lot of whom are homosexual teens that were kicked out of their house for their orientation, or the fact that there are a lot of homeless males in general who are being forced into prostitution in career mainly dominated by men wanting to pick them up and take them for a spin, which is particularly distressing if they are not gay.
If you think about it, we could come up with a million different examples of society's sexism.
But did you know that western society is actually thanking us for these assumptions? Our culture makes a lot of money off of our collected sexism?
For example, studies have shown that men in the workforce who believe a woman should be at home doing the housework make more money than those who don't: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/AheadoftheCurve/story?id=5868121&page=1
Maybe that isn't convincing enough for you.
Or what about how the system is so easy, and women so believable that she can make a false harassment claim against her male co-worker and most likely win, causing the men to be demoted or possibly lose their job?
Or what about the fact that men are discriminated for work at food-joints like hooters to the point that they have to sue? http://www.caller.com/news/2009/jan/13/local-man-sues-hooters-claims-gender-bias-seeks/
All in all, these problems are profitable for companies, lawyers, and easy for commerical advertisers to latch onto and feed you with a spoon so you'll go out and buy their products.
Can I have a "thank you" for being sexist?
Western money making corporations sure will give you one!
A more recently thread created on strippers, that was a big sexist thread.
Why is it that we assume, we as a society, (and I'm talking mainly western society so the rest of you can go pick dandelions) think that certain genders are more prone to doing certain things when they're actually not?
Females are not more likely to be strippers they are just paid more attention to because western society highly sexualized women rather than men, and due to that these young clad-dressed women who are stripping are stereotypically attributed to the job. What about prostitutes? Are we automatically thinking of poor, STD prone, defenseless and weak crack addicted women? Or do we stop to consider the high market of male prostitutes, a lot of whom are homosexual teens that were kicked out of their house for their orientation, or the fact that there are a lot of homeless males in general who are being forced into prostitution in career mainly dominated by men wanting to pick them up and take them for a spin, which is particularly distressing if they are not gay.
If you think about it, we could come up with a million different examples of society's sexism.
But did you know that western society is actually thanking us for these assumptions? Our culture makes a lot of money off of our collected sexism?
For example, studies have shown that men in the workforce who believe a woman should be at home doing the housework make more money than those who don't: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/AheadoftheCurve/story?id=5868121&page=1
Maybe that isn't convincing enough for you.
Or what about how the system is so easy, and women so believable that she can make a false harassment claim against her male co-worker and most likely win, causing the men to be demoted or possibly lose their job?
Or what about the fact that men are discriminated for work at food-joints like hooters to the point that they have to sue? http://www.caller.com/news/2009/jan/13/local-man-sues-hooters-claims-gender-bias-seeks/
All in all, these problems are profitable for companies, lawyers, and easy for commerical advertisers to latch onto and feed you with a spoon so you'll go out and buy their products.
Can I have a "thank you" for being sexist?
Western money making corporations sure will give you one!
