My kind of lady
I was a bit too young to really be a part of the Free to be...You and Me generation, but something tells me I would've liked it.
posted by Debbye @ 11:54 AM
Just a (Transplanted to a) Small Town Girl...
Follow all the zany antics and adventures of a city-fied California girl as she adjusts to small town life in Missouri. Or something cliched like that.
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4 Comments:
But you live in a generation now where we don't need videos such as this (as much). Sure, there are still more barriers to cross, but American women are more free to do what they please now than ever before.
Why would you want to live in a time where we needed to pound gender equality into the heads of children and women weren't as free to grow as they are now?
No, I was just saying that I like the message of this program and sorry I missed it when it first came around.
I find that there is still resistance to women being free to make their own decisions. The anti-abortion movement, the traditional values movement, Spike TV (hee-hee), etc... I don't think it's about keeping women from freedom, because we're the weaker, duller, etc..sex. (though there are some out there that would say that.) Rather it's about preserving a way of life that some people feel feminism threatens.
Ideals about gender roles run deep in our society. These ideals stifle men as well as women, but for some reason some men are resistant to change or to accept changes that have resulted from feminism. That book I told you about, Stiffed by Susan Faludi, explores this idea. I always think, Steve should read this book!
For me it's not about bashing men, it's about getting men to understand that complete equality between the sexes isn't a threat and that it will benefit them as well. Men also need to be freed from their traditional gender roles, in my opinion.
I've kinda strayed from the point, but I you know me...
I would agree with you about Spike TV if anybody actually watched that awful network.
Next time I see you, lend me the book and I'll check it out. If it starts in on the man bashing I'll put it down.
I agree in equality of the sexes. What I don't agree with is the fact that women have the potential to be just as ignorant as men have been. For example, when I see these types of arguments, it almost always starts with a woman saying, "Women can do anything a man can do, if not better." Right away they're saying that women are "better" than men.
That's the kinda crap men have been doing to women for years--backhanding them, and it makes it feel like equality isn't what "feminists" are really after, it's a complete flip of the roles.
great vid & message. i DO think there needs to more of these kind of vids around now. our society has gone in a much less politically correct direction to a point where so many people are saying 'f**k being p.c. i have the right to have my own prejudice view no matter how un-p.c. it is.'
i think this has happened because our society became so much more conservative w/a pendulum swing away from the liberal 60's, 70's & part of the '80s. also because there was such a push to be p.c. in the late '80s/early '90s to such a point of it causing a real uptightness. societal dynamics are fascinating & frustrating simultaneously.
as a gay man i can really relate to the equality struggle women go through since it's such a similar plight. women are still very much unfairly treated and considered unequal. i'm not sure we will ever see total equality for women as long as there are human beings & testosterone involved, lol! just get rid of those factors & everything will be just fine(as if!). people are so complex!
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