Ria Phchankar Gender Roles

The video I chose to observe via YouTube was, ‘Gender Roles in Society’ by Ria Chinchankar. The three highlights that really stood out to me were the different point of views, the history of anatomy, and the psychological aspects in regards to gender roles. I really enjoyed the beginning of the clip which started off by Ria asking the audience to shout out adjectives describing men and woman. The reason this influenced me so much was listening to other ideas everyone brought up. The perfect woman was described as feminine, small, petite, tall, pretty, and fabulous. It made me wonder how the large or short women responded to not being included in this perfect aspect. Next, the perfect man was described as having muscles, being strong, having …show more content…
The first class of women scored about twelve percent. Another class that did not ask for gender, the women scored fifteen percent. What I found most interesting in this Ted Talks, was the history provided through the clip. Ria stated facts all the way from ancient Greeks and past world history in reference to gender roles. She also states the importance of Anatomy. Back in the days she claimed men were the hunters because they were taller and more masculine and women would gather plants and vegetables. Then Ria goes into the effect culture had on gender roles. She begins with the Ancient Greeks and the importance of gender roles today. She brought up a quote from Aristotle “The relation of male to female is by nature a relation to superior to inferior.” Another quote by Plato, “The man who puts himself well in war should be given more liberal opportunities to sleep with a wife.” Women were led to conform to their gender roles in fear of being burnt. They were shown to be inferior to men. In Japan they referred to women as baby making machines. Another interesting statement was when Ria brought up men who were stereotyped and meant to be