How We Teach Children

We complain about the way people think, and the stereotypes people have towards certain genders. For instance girls are artsy. They like music, art, english, and history. Men are different. They like math and sciences. How has this notion come to be? Why do we believe women are more compassionate and men are tougher? We learned that our sex is what we are (male or female) and our gender is the stereotypes that go along with that sex. So if our preferences and stereotypes are not given to us by nature how do we receive them? The answer is they are learned behaviors that are instilled in us from a very young age. While I interned at a preschool over the summer I saw as teachers constantly told female students to talk about how they feel, while little boys were just told boys don't cry. Teachers encouraged girls to paint and boys to play with blocks. The little kids rarely had a preference as to which they were going to do, however, they were groomed as they grow up.

Intersectionality and Feminism

At the beginning of the year we learned about how feminism supports such a small variety of women. When people say feminism is no longer needed and a thing of the past, they ignore that the women most affected by negative stereotyping are minority women who have both race and gender working against them. White women can get jobs because companies like to promote that they are not sexist, while black men can get jobs so companies can know they aren't racist. Black women, however, face both sexism and racism and that is too much for a company to look past. I like this sign because it promotes that white women are not the only "type" of women. When fighting against sexism you must also fight against racism.

Feminism Meme

Memes are one of my favorite things on the internet. They are funny and provide me with so much entertainment. While memes usually have to be a bit controversial, so we can find the humor in them, memes that promote an incorrect perspective are not at all humorous to me. This meme promotes the sexism that we learned about at the beginning of the year with the negative stereotyping towards feminists. I have known a lot of feminist and never have any of them been triggered by a man telling them to have a good day. These memes promote negative outlooks on people who are just looking for equality between genders.

Celebrities and Baby Weight

It is bad enough that women are stereotyped instantly when they become pregnant. Even worse than this stereotyping for average women is the stereotyping faced by celebrities who happen to be a woman. If they gain a slight bit of weight or say they have exciting news, all of a sudden everyone assumes pregnancy. Celebrity women basically are unable to reach 110 pounds without people assuming they are having a baby. While most women get to enjoy their baby once he or she is born, celebrity women are expected to lose unhealthy amounts of weight in order to get their previous bodies back. It is completely unfair to assume a woman who has just given birth would be back to 95 pounds in 3 days. During Kim Kardashians pregnancy, people actually made comments about how big she looked. This shocked me, she is pregnant she is meant to be big. Not even pregnant women can escape body shaming.

Donald Trump Sayings About Women

It is no secret that Donald Trump has said some horrible things about women. Sadly, I feel as if society has gotten used to hearing it come from him and in a way has accepted it. I feel as if this video is powerful because you see as women read quotes from Trump that are so extremely inappropriate. With Trump being president, I have noticed very clearly an increase in sexism and racism around me every day. This video is powerful because it shows women who are clearly against his actions.

Poverty in America

In America, we see poverty everywhere. However, in my sociology class, I learned that the stigma about it being mostly men in poverty is incorrect. Men make up 49% of the population and 44% of the people in poverty are men. Women make up 51% of the population and 56% of them are in poverty. Even though women have 2% more people in the population then men, women still make up the vast majority of poverty. We learned that even more surprising, most of these women run a single household, meaning they are the only people supporting their family and have children. This creates a new generation, the children of the mothers in poverty, that are also in poverty. 

Antifeminist and Sexist Man Speaks to a Woman About What She Would Be Happier Doing

This video shocked me to the point where I almost have no words to describe it. The first man speaks about politics while the second man jumps in about his personal opinions on women. This has to be one of the most upfront examples of sexism I have ever seen. He explains to the woman that apparently "she is miserable and would be happier being at home with kids where she belongs." As this woman attempts to speak up for himself he continues to bash her and shoot her down with what she should be doing. While his comments are EXTREMELY arrogant what upsets me even more are the comments under the video. For one, the video was posted under an antifeminist youtube channel, which explains the comments made. In one section of the video when she is explaining why she chose the job she did and how she doesn't need or want a family at the moment a caption came across the screen saying that just means no one will love her because she is a bitch. Comments agreeing with the man take this video from being annoying to unwatchable.