Men On Mondays: objectifying men as penguins

So all I know is that Oscar is the trash can from the Sesame Street, until last night, that is. When I guess an award show goes on and they give the stars a trophy for 'doing a good job'.

I obviously don't watch them.

This morning as I was working out, I turned the channel to the Today Show. I enjoy fashion (I think dresses are pretty). And the Today show was evaluating the fashion at the Oscars.

So I sped up on the dreadmill and started running.

Usually I would comment on how pretty the dresses were. But today all I saw was the women's sleek and slender body. No curves, no boobs, just flat. And the dresses were tightly against the body.

Now some people tell me that I am wrong when I say men aren't as objectified as women in our culture. I'm gonna show you, how I feel that men are not objectified as much as women to any extent, in every form of media.

Feminist stay-at-home-mom?

Well, this goes with a back story. When I tell people I am majoring in women's studies, there are two reactions:

1. They make a joke about it. (Usually sexist)

2. they act like it's a 'normal' major...which it is.

Now I'm fine with people that ask questions about my major of choice, (What do you study, what classes do you have to take, what are you going to do with that degree and so on) but when people make sexist jokes about my major I get a little peeved. Of course, I point out that sexist jokes are part of the reason why we still need women's studies as a department/major/class in colleges.

A feminist marriage?

My friend and coworker is a videographer and has his own business, Memories in Motion. So pretty much he makes a "music video" of couple's weddings. He is amazingly good and you can't believe he hasn't gotten some sort of professional training.

But this is not about a promotion of his business(check it out if you wish). His new wedding video got me thinking about my dream wedding. And ugh, I am so indecisive about it all.

When I was 14, I decided that I was 'never' going to get married. Yep, never. I didn't see the point, I could still have kids and not be married, I could still have a job and not be married, I could still live with a male and not be married.

Community

This is a picture I put up on Facebook to show I support Planned Parenthood.


It was a sign that read "I survived because of Planned Parenthood."


Within the first two hours, there was someone that wrote "what about the babies that didn't survive?"

Feminist to be!

this is a very cute video about a 5 year old not wanting to get married before she has a job!

And just when I wanted to not male-bash...

This is ridiculous, this girl is having relationship troubles and he brings up the fact that boys are smarter than girls because they won more awards. SO NOT cool. I waited five minutes to cool down before pointing out his sexist remark.

Yes, guys have won more awards, some guys have won all of the awards, but that does not mean that "boys are not dumb". She was obviously talking about her boyfriend, not classwork, science, nor awards.

Obviously the science industry is male dominated so this is going to be more male winners. OHMGEEE. DUH!

And on the funny note, I really had to tone down my reaction to this. But seriously, I never thought I would get so mad at someone that I don't know on facebook. I was shaking with Anger. He is calling woman stupid because of an award!?!?!?!?!?! That doesn't mean anything.

Okay, it's out now. But I have so many names I just want to call him....

Update on 2/23: The guy who commented the sexist remark about physics deleted his comment. So the next time you come across a sexist remark, it wouldn't hurt to say something about it!

Men On Mondays

I've been seeing this trend about Male-bashing on Mondays on feminist sites. Analyzing or debating people's viewpoints is one thing, but attacking a person for the belief they hold is unacceptable in my view.

I want to spin Male-bashing around, instead of male-bashing, we should be male-rewarding. I think it is a better system and hopefully it gives some real role models for men! As well as support the males that do help women succeed!

So here is the beginning to my Men on Mondays series on this blog!