It is 2017 and Donald Trump is the President of America. He is the President of America despite his non-political background, despite his controversies, despite his threats and empty promises that stood side-by-side. There are videos of Donald Trump speaking crudely and poorly of minorities and he is the President of a country full to its’ brim of minorities. It is 2017 and in this years’ Academy Awards, a room full of celebrities and fans laughed as late night talk-show host, Jimmy Kimmel opened the show with taunts regarding Donald Trump, indicating a sense of disrespect for the President of their country, as voted by the people. It is 2017 and it is hard to believe that Donald Trump is the President of the United States, or it would be,
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Had Clinton been running a campaign with Trumps’ politics, people would not say that she suffered the loss due to her gender. Had she been running an archaic social image, people would find it easy to believe she lost the race. She had not been doing those things, however. Trump had. Yet, he won. He took claim of the United States leader role. Maybe it wasn’t because he is a powerful, white, straight male; but maybe it is.
To talk of inequality amongst genders has become a rising topic in only the last few years. It has also become a topic of controversy. It is tended to be believed that because slavery does not exist, racism has ended; this is not the case. Similarly, it is a trend to believe that just because men and females can co-exist in the same positions in society that females are now equal; this also is not the …show more content…
To assume so is to once again revert to the assumption of weak-willed human beings. Men suffer inequality just as much as women do. It is often neglected that men can suffer due to the many privileges that they are described of holding. This makes it seem as though males are a greater sex who cannot and will not experience the negativity of privilege and inequality in gender relation. A man who expresses emotions, especially through crying or sharing feelings aloud, gets judged harshly and laughed at. Men are socially expected to be the buff, strong men who are rude and pompous as seen by every stereotypical ‘jock’ in pop-culture films. UN Women Goodwill ambassador, Emma Watson, delivered one of the most compelling speeches in 2014 in relation to gender equality as a topic for both males and females to participate in. She spoke justly of males suffering from the inequality in society with respect for the gender. It was Watsons’ intention to highlight gender difference and contrast as something of the past, the present and the future that both genders should thrive to contrast and participate in
Had Clinton been running a campaign with Trumps’ politics, people would not say that she suffered the loss due to her gender. Had she been running an archaic social image, people would find it easy to believe she lost the race. She had not been doing those things, however. Trump had. Yet, he won. He took claim of the United States leader role. Maybe it wasn’t because he is a powerful, white, straight male; but maybe it is.
To talk of inequality amongst genders has become a rising topic in only the last few years. It has also become a topic of controversy. It is tended to be believed that because slavery does not exist, racism has ended; this is not the case. Similarly, it is a trend to believe that just because men and females can co-exist in the same positions in society that females are now equal; this also is not the …show more content…
To assume so is to once again revert to the assumption of weak-willed human beings. Men suffer inequality just as much as women do. It is often neglected that men can suffer due to the many privileges that they are described of holding. This makes it seem as though males are a greater sex who cannot and will not experience the negativity of privilege and inequality in gender relation. A man who expresses emotions, especially through crying or sharing feelings aloud, gets judged harshly and laughed at. Men are socially expected to be the buff, strong men who are rude and pompous as seen by every stereotypical ‘jock’ in pop-culture films. UN Women Goodwill ambassador, Emma Watson, delivered one of the most compelling speeches in 2014 in relation to gender equality as a topic for both males and females to participate in. She spoke justly of males suffering from the inequality in society with respect for the gender. It was Watsons’ intention to highlight gender difference and contrast as something of the past, the present and the future that both genders should thrive to contrast and participate in