Is male nudity rated at a different level than female nudity?
Imagine the scene of Mark Antony running through the streets of Rome wearing a goat-skin thong... that’s pretty funny right? But could a woman do that? What would people have to say about Mark Antony if he was a female? Yes, it is true, male nudity is rated at a entirely different level than female nudity. Discrimination against women has been a problem for many, many years, not just related to this subject. Although most men will most likely disagree, male nudity is rated at a unequal level than female nudity in a variety of ways, which are unfair and cause people to have less and less respect for women. Discrimination against women is a serious problem around the world in numerous ways, not just sexually. One way that leads to wrong nudity ratings of females, is failure to give women equal chances as ales in the media. Agencies have argued that there was “Rampant Discrimination” against female movie directors. “Grumblings that Hollywood is a man’s world has percolated for decades and is borne out in grim figures: Women directed only 4 percent of top grossing films over the past dozen years. Now this apparent truism is being challenged as a violation of civil rights.” (Buckley, 2015) Film makers around the world are allowing …show more content…
Therefore, in contrast to my belief of the unfairness of the levels of rating, there are some circumstances that men and women should be rated differently. Men with their shirts off is not the same as a woman having her shirt off, simply because men don’t have the same kind of physical breasts that women do, and their breasts are not really portrayed nearly as sexual as women’s breasts are. But to have different ratings with a man fully naked and a woman fully naked is definitely unfair and makes the female gender look and have less respect as
Imagine the scene of Mark Antony running through the streets of Rome wearing a goat-skin thong... that’s pretty funny right? But could a woman do that? What would people have to say about Mark Antony if he was a female? Yes, it is true, male nudity is rated at a entirely different level than female nudity. Discrimination against women has been a problem for many, many years, not just related to this subject. Although most men will most likely disagree, male nudity is rated at a unequal level than female nudity in a variety of ways, which are unfair and cause people to have less and less respect for women. Discrimination against women is a serious problem around the world in numerous ways, not just sexually. One way that leads to wrong nudity ratings of females, is failure to give women equal chances as ales in the media. Agencies have argued that there was “Rampant Discrimination” against female movie directors. “Grumblings that Hollywood is a man’s world has percolated for decades and is borne out in grim figures: Women directed only 4 percent of top grossing films over the past dozen years. Now this apparent truism is being challenged as a violation of civil rights.” (Buckley, 2015) Film makers around the world are allowing …show more content…
Therefore, in contrast to my belief of the unfairness of the levels of rating, there are some circumstances that men and women should be rated differently. Men with their shirts off is not the same as a woman having her shirt off, simply because men don’t have the same kind of physical breasts that women do, and their breasts are not really portrayed nearly as sexual as women’s breasts are. But to have different ratings with a man fully naked and a woman fully naked is definitely unfair and makes the female gender look and have less respect as