Chapter 5 –
Gender Socialization
1.
KILLING US SOFTLY:
When I
was watching the video “Killing me softly” it open my mind more in how I see
women now after listening some important things we should know about women.
Killing me softly explain that women bodies are being used to make
advertisements to sell more products. This been going on for a long time. We
should be taking advertisements more seriously because we don’t really know
what it stands out for and what they are really trying to show us when a women
body is being used to make advertisements. Advertisements tell us who we are.
For example, a women sees an advertisement of another female model on a
billboard, magazine, or newspaper they would feel like if they need to try
harder and improve their body language more because they are looking up to
these advertisements all around us. Most women in these advertisements are thin
or skinny you could say. Which makes other women realize that they need to lose
weight or make improvements so they could be just like that to catch men
attention. They believed that the reason why women are not beautiful is because
they are not trying hard enough to look beautiful.
The
reason why there is so much violence on women is because women body are being
used to being turned into objects like a perfume bottle, beer bottles and the
images that is being advertise. Women
bodies are being advertise so they could sell more products. The focus is being
focused on the women breast. Breast implants and plastic surgery started
increasing more because women want a body that could make them be in an
advertisement. Killing me softly said that women loose sensation after doing
breast implants. “Women go from a subject to being an object”. Also a female
body is more criticize than males. Four out of Five women have eating disorders
because they want to be thin like the advertisement women. Women are said to be
a “sex object”, because everything has to do with sex. Women are also known to
be happy when they have a man.
2. TONY PORTER: A
CALL TO MEN:
What I
learn from listening to “A call to men” is that men are supposed to be the ones
who are in charge and not the women. Men are stronger and women are weak. Men
are more superior and women are inferior. Also that woman has less value and
men have more value. Women are property of men and are sexual objects. The
reason why there is so much violence against women is because women - have less
value + they are property + and are an objectification.
But men
are supposed to be raised strong and not showing emotions. A “Man Box” is what
makes a male, a man. Which is not showing emotions or crying, do not show
weakness or fear, demonstrate power and control especially over women, show
aggression, being a protector, heterosexual, do not be like gay men, be tough,
athletic, having strength and courage, makes decision on his own without no
help, and to view women as property or objects. If you don’t have what it takes
to do these you are not consider being a man. A man box is important to most
men. But also everything depends on how people raise their son and teach them
how to be men.
3. EXPLAIN HOW BOTH VIDEO RELATES TO CHAPTER 5 – SOCIALIZATION.
Both
video “Killing us softly” and “A call to men” relate to chapter 5 because we
could compare them to Nurture. The way males and females were raised by their
parents, the environment they live in, and the encounter with other people.
Raising a daughter or a son you have to teach them what they are supposed to
learn and do as they grow up. Teaching a female how to take care of self and
her body, and not being sexually abuse from a male. Teach her what is right and
what is bad or wrong. Also teaching a male how to be a man as he is growing up.
Most men would take things too far. Becoming aware of ourselves as part of a
group and learning how to communicate with other people in a group makes us be
human beings.
