WWE WWF... what ever they are calling it these days. Fake wrestling on television is disgusting. I do not think it is entertaining because it degrades women. I think in this country we too often see a fine line between entertainment and subjecting the rights of others. Entertainment should be something that challenges the intellect in a way that helps mold an idividuals' inward concept of self or outward view of the world. The type of wrestling we watched in that documentary is challenging no doubt but in a very different kind of way.
In looking at this documentary and the films 300 and Wedding Crashers we are presented with a very unique image of what it means to be a man and what it means to be a woman.
A Man is obviously someone that should lie to women and children regardless in order to protect them from the truth. As we saw this in all of the above excluding 300. A man is a violent character that kills without looking back and treats women like dogs, literally making them crawl on their hands and needs and strip tease on command.
A woman is a submissive creature that is talked out of her pants with false heroism and bravery(the purple heart: Wedding Crashers). She will change her image in any way possible to please a man including undergoing painful expensive surgery (China). A woman is something to be attained, something containing monetary value (this we even see in the reading).
What does it mean this picture of a man and this picture of a woman have to coexist together?
Who is the weaker sex?
Is there a weaker sex?
In the end who has the ultimate power?
These are the questions we face in a society so obsessed with money, sex and beauty.
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The questions you present are really interesting to think about. Who is the weaker sex is a question that is brought up in entertainment every single day. I would love to say there is no weaker sex - and I do not think, personally, that there is. Women are just as strong as men are if not stronger. However, because the media portrays women in such a degrading, helpless, and moronic fashion it is hard to say that women are strong or stronger. It really gives people of all ages the wrong idea of the hierarchical structure of society. In my opinion neither man nor woman has the ultimate power - media has the ultimate power. If the media decides to begin portraying women as strong and powerful the whole dynamic of our society will change because it is a major influence on people's lives.
ReplyDeleteI like the questions you have posed. Though males are most often physically stronger, females have manytalents and skills where they are stronger than males. I think society makes men out to be the ever dominating gender because of their physical strength. However, it is usually my observation the the physically strongest of men are usually also the dumbest... Just throwing that out there :)...
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