My eleventh blog post is similar to my previous blog “Miss Representation” but the roles are reversed. The film The Mask You Live In is about how men are treated and problems they experience due to their gender. In the first part of the film it says, “He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it”, this particular saying by George Orwell made me stop and think are boys being taught the right way to be a man? Is the “social norm” truly allowing men to be their own person? The answer is no. Any guy has heard the expressions, “Be a man”, or “Man up” in their life time. Being taught at such a young age how to be a man is essential. But how can a man be taught to experience or show no emotion. The men in this film were only taught to fight and dominate people and circumstances and only left people thinking they weren’t enough.
This film made me feel disappointed in how people are raising their kids telling them to be a man of no emotions. People can’t go through life not showing emotions. There is a right and wrong way of teaching and a man who was taught that they can’t cry are angry or bottles their emotions up. To me it doesn’t make sense. Most of the men in this film thought they could manifest hyper masculinity by being tough and playing sports that only a man could play, yet it didn’t give them the attention and love they wanted from their father or male figure in their life. Being taught this even till this day is a destructive to culture. After watching male figures in this film and even from my own experience I’ve heard people calling males names and being harsh when a man doesn’t act tough enough, but that just inhumane. There were students in high school that were killed and sexually assaulted because they aren’t acting man enough because they thought it would be “fun” to physically hurt someone who was more emotional then tough. It just makes me feel that people are getting hurt and dying for no good reason, all because of the way people raise their children. Being masculine isn’t worth losing a person. This film impacts my knowing because we have all seen this happen sometime throughout our lives or it has happened to you. However young boys, and men need to be able to talk to someone instead. Most young boys in this film stated they are sad, and feel like they can’t be their true self, but can’t say anything about it to their friends without being bullied or their family with out saying “Man up”. In a segment of the film kids began a sentence “If you really knew me” and had heartbreaking things to say yet could not express their feelings about their own life. The United States in particular has allowed the idea of masculinity to make men feel they are not comfortable to step down from a fight or to cry and show emotion. Every man in the film was taught to be dominate, powerful, never back down, using violence to solve problems etc. As well as associating masculinity with athletic ability, saying males have to play sports. This film made me stop to think has the world just accepted this as a “social norm” and in this time would there ever be a change to how we teach young boys to be a man. Instead of teaching them males are superior and tough they should really be taught the proper way to act, that its ok to show emotion, and that males are equal and should treat women as their equals. This film makes me want to make a change in how people raise their children. Kids are being sets up for failure because they are only taught masculine things. To all kids to grow up thinking its ok to be able to do things a female would do. If parents taught their male children to be whatever they want to be their wouldn’t be such a gap in today’s society between males and females.
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My tenth blog post will be about a film created in 2014 called Miss Representation. The title really says it all, it based off of how women in our society are viewed. The film elaborates on how women in media, modeling, politics, etc. are “represented” as a sexual object, or have expectations to be in shape, and beautiful. It also covers how women in powerful positions are judged harshly and compared to men. Overall it comes down to gender in this film and how a woman is held to certain standards and not to be in powerful positions.
The arguments made in this film made me open my eyes to what was happening in the world, and to look at the bigger picture. I never noticed how women in the media were treated. I’ve been aware of women being treated like sex objects which is not ok. However, in this film particularly in politics Nancy Pelosi was treated horrible calling her hot, sexy, and other nasty things about her while on national television. Many males on news stations said, “she had no business being in politics, it was a man’s job”. She was publicly humiliated and harassed on national television, and nothing was done. This personally affected me thinking about my own career path studying politics wondering will this happen to me? As well as do I really want to watch a television network that subjects women to sexual harassment for the world to see. This film was eye opening and made me think about myself, and if it has happened to me before, or someone I knew, and we just thought it was “normal”. Today’s society needs to change in the way we view each other and to respect one’s job, whether they are male or female. The arguments in this film made me think about the world we live in and what we consider the “social norm”. Miss Representation impacted on my knowing allowing me to be more aware of what is going on, and how women are treated. This has been going on for decades. If you’ve ever seen an old movie its typically a traditional family, where the dad is off to work to support his wife and kids financially, while the wife takes care of the children, cooks and cleans the house, catering to their husband and family. However, its 2019 and the times have changed. Most women no longer stay at home to take care of family and household duties, they receive an education, and get jobs. Most women even hold a powerful position in government, doctors, lawyers, etc. Yet, what frustrates me is that women all over the world are sexified still. The world is evolving and so should men they believe they are more powerful, rich, or more educated. After watching this film, I just sat there, and thought is this a world I want to live in? I vividly remember my mom telling me that when I grow up I could be anything I want to be. However, in today’s society is that really true, yes you could be anything you want to be but being a powerful woman leads to the unwanted male comments about your appearance, sexual harassment and how you are incapable of having a male occupation in politics, business, law, etc. After watching Miss Representation, it not only made me want to make a change in the world but to strive harder to be something and have a prestigious job to prove people wrong. We all have the wrong idea of a women I once heard the saying “a woman belongs in the kitchen not the board room” and I just thought to myself as women we need to improve ourselves and strive to succeed not only as someone’s wife or mom but as a person. HOME PAGE
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