Women In Pop Culture
fewer men are exempt from the sense of entitlement.
The cultures present in today’s society stem from ancient traditions where there was the perception that women were belongings who were owned by their father and then their husbands. This created a sense of entitlement that is still present today- the idea that women are there for men’s desires and are to obey them for their pleasure only. A prime example of which is the public’s response to a rape victim Tatiana Andreeva’s self-defence saying “there is nothing wrong with a man wanting to have sex with a girl.” It is perpetuated through the use of pop culture and glorified in lyrics such as “tried to domesticate you, but you’re an animal, baby it’s in your nature” and “What? You don’t like …show more content…
Young boys then grow up to expect women to get naked for them when they want because it is so easy for them to access these pornographic magazines. In order for this culture to change, it must be taught differently, young boys and girls need to be taught that they are equal and that they should bth respect the other gender. Certainly not all objectiuf women and hae this sense of entitlement so the pop culture cannot be 100% to blame but when coulpled with the hypermasculine representations shown in society nd in many households, many men do succumb to this way of thinking.. Thoughts such as “You can’t be whipped, show her who is boss” are common among white teenage boys. Despite the many advances we have made towards gender equality over the past century, we still live in a patriarchal society which has developed the expectation among men that you should be strong and masculine and more powerful than women and an expectation among women either that we deserve special treatment due to out gender which is the recently developed stigma around the word feminism or that we should conform to male
The cultures present in today’s society stem from ancient traditions where there was the perception that women were belongings who were owned by their father and then their husbands. This created a sense of entitlement that is still present today- the idea that women are there for men’s desires and are to obey them for their pleasure only. A prime example of which is the public’s response to a rape victim Tatiana Andreeva’s self-defence saying “there is nothing wrong with a man wanting to have sex with a girl.” It is perpetuated through the use of pop culture and glorified in lyrics such as “tried to domesticate you, but you’re an animal, baby it’s in your nature” and “What? You don’t like …show more content…
Young boys then grow up to expect women to get naked for them when they want because it is so easy for them to access these pornographic magazines. In order for this culture to change, it must be taught differently, young boys and girls need to be taught that they are equal and that they should bth respect the other gender. Certainly not all objectiuf women and hae this sense of entitlement so the pop culture cannot be 100% to blame but when coulpled with the hypermasculine representations shown in society nd in many households, many men do succumb to this way of thinking.. Thoughts such as “You can’t be whipped, show her who is boss” are common among white teenage boys. Despite the many advances we have made towards gender equality over the past century, we still live in a patriarchal society which has developed the expectation among men that you should be strong and masculine and more powerful than women and an expectation among women either that we deserve special treatment due to out gender which is the recently developed stigma around the word feminism or that we should conform to male