Men through centuries have felt entitled to own and posses women. In the movie Avengers: Age of Ultron, Tony Stark, the character played by Robert Downey Jr said that he would reinstitute prima nocta if he were king of Asgard; prima nocta is the right of a king to bed a woman on her wedding night. Women are then equated with things that can be possessed by men. The belief of men to have rights to women reminded me of the actions of Elliot Rodger, whom drove to a sorority house in California and murdered 6 women, and injured 14 others. He left a manifesto stating that he wanted to punish women for their constant rejections. This is obviously a mentally unstable person, but our patriarchal culture in which taught men that a rejection from women
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Breasts do not make part of the sexual organs, it is designed exclusively to feed babies. Men have nipples as well yet they are not required to cover; an overweight man can have a chest that looks exactly like a female breast, and no one would get offended. Women breastfeeding without covering, have faced discrimination and asked to retreat somewhere private; what is so offensive about feeding a child, it is something so natural. Facebook and Instagram have been heavily criticized by women whom their breastfeeding pictures were removed. The conservatives arguing against public breastfeeding claim it is immoral. How dare a woman show herself in front of men and tempt them in such way? If a man sees this natural act as arousing, I think this person is the problem by equating it with sexuality. There are cultures in which breasts are not sexualized, just look at the indigenous tribes in the Amazon today; women walk around with their breasts exposed, yet they do not feel shame or need to cover because they know the difference between breasts and sexual organs. I blame censorship in a way, by hiding things and making it taboo, …show more content…
Advertising has found the female body the perfect prop to call attention to their products. The viewer sees an object, not a person and it is all thanks to the powerful men at the top making the decisions of what to show in their programming. This also affects women in the media, for example, the way reporters interview women on the red carpet compared to men. Men get questions thought provoking questions, about their roles whereas women get questions about their clothes, makeup, hair, etc. as if they were not capable of answering complex questions. Fortunately, women of Hollywood have taken a stand and are calling reporters out when they get superfluous questions by asking: Would you ask that to a man? In the book American Media and Mass Culture: Left Perspectives by Donald Lazere, pointed out the relation of how female stars are judge by their sex appeal and how women felt pressure to fit in the molds society had created for them. An United Nations funded study of 11 countries, Gender Bias Without Borders, found
Breasts do not make part of the sexual organs, it is designed exclusively to feed babies. Men have nipples as well yet they are not required to cover; an overweight man can have a chest that looks exactly like a female breast, and no one would get offended. Women breastfeeding without covering, have faced discrimination and asked to retreat somewhere private; what is so offensive about feeding a child, it is something so natural. Facebook and Instagram have been heavily criticized by women whom their breastfeeding pictures were removed. The conservatives arguing against public breastfeeding claim it is immoral. How dare a woman show herself in front of men and tempt them in such way? If a man sees this natural act as arousing, I think this person is the problem by equating it with sexuality. There are cultures in which breasts are not sexualized, just look at the indigenous tribes in the Amazon today; women walk around with their breasts exposed, yet they do not feel shame or need to cover because they know the difference between breasts and sexual organs. I blame censorship in a way, by hiding things and making it taboo, …show more content…
Advertising has found the female body the perfect prop to call attention to their products. The viewer sees an object, not a person and it is all thanks to the powerful men at the top making the decisions of what to show in their programming. This also affects women in the media, for example, the way reporters interview women on the red carpet compared to men. Men get questions thought provoking questions, about their roles whereas women get questions about their clothes, makeup, hair, etc. as if they were not capable of answering complex questions. Fortunately, women of Hollywood have taken a stand and are calling reporters out when they get superfluous questions by asking: Would you ask that to a man? In the book American Media and Mass Culture: Left Perspectives by Donald Lazere, pointed out the relation of how female stars are judge by their sex appeal and how women felt pressure to fit in the molds society had created for them. An United Nations funded study of 11 countries, Gender Bias Without Borders, found