February 11th:
I was not expecting the movie to be so visual, or emtional to watch. The movie definitly gave me a new view on how females are looked at from a (many) males perspective, specifically how the media portrayes how females should act and what is expected of them.
The movie it self made me feel uncomfertable at times, and it was also somewhat hard to watch. I do not understand why some men feel it is ok to dominate women. The sceen in the movie that has stuck with me to this day, and affects me the most from the film, was when the rape sceen of the female was taking place in the bar with only males around. I felt so angry and infuriated, when it is obvious one of the males did not agree with or like what was going on. He continued to stand and watch with what was happening to the female, while the whole time he did not like the situation at all! WHY did he NOT stop it, or even try to say ANYTHING to the other males! WHY! He knows it was wrong, they all did! He did not have enough courage to tell the other men to stop because it would make him appear weak! ( in relation to what Katz was saying from the movie "Tough Guise", how men have to feel they are better then other men and have to always appear supirior over other men). How far would it have to go for one of the males to say NO, stop, this is wrong. None of them did!
I think that i get so emotional and upset about this because i put myself in what that situation might be like and if i needed help and none of them did anything just because they were affraid the other guys or their "friends" would look down on them i would livid! Stand up for what you believe and feel is right, you have nothing to loose. This could be contradicting because the men who believe females should be submissive to males would agrue that what they did was not wrong because they believe it is how males are allowed to act and treat women.
Women are Human beings, just like males. we have just as much rights, safety and freedom as males!
Other clips from the movie also opened my eyes to what the "real world" is like outside of what seems to be my sheltered life.
I realize and understand people are brought up differently and this can affect what they believe is right or wrong or sociely acceptable or not, which causes all the underlying problems of how females are treated in the world today, along with how males feel they should be acting or striving to reach. An unreachable goal to "conquer" females. The battle is tough, and will only get worse while females strive to be desired and males strive to over power women, it seems it will be a never ending cirlce. Females want to be looked at and desired, but also respected. Males want females to be their women on the side for whenever, however they want them.
In the end this will never work for either party. Males need to respect females and females should consider taking males needs into consideration and coming up with a compramise.
Without this key element, there will continue to be unhappy males and females.
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The scene that stuck with me the most was the rape scene as well. Then, when I was doing research for my final presentation, I found an image of a woman laying on her back, with a male on top of her, and three men in the background watching the situation. This image reminded me so much of the scene in the movie. For the women was so skinny and frail that she obviously would not have been able to overcome the strength of the male that was on top of her. In addition, she doesn't look scared, she is just succumbing to the desires of the man.
ReplyDeleteThe men in the background also looked as if they were just waiting in line for their chance with her. She was very pretty, and why wouldn't the guys want a turn with her? In addition, they all were fairly strong, and therefore capable of making the women do what they desired.
This scene seems all too real at times. At parties you always see a group of guys huddled together, scoping the women in the room, looking for their target. While their objective may not be to force the women to do unwanted things, it still makes me wonder what is going through their minds. What is their real objective? What lengths will they go to in order to accomplish it? They know they have power and strength, and I believe they may just be thinking of how to use it to their best advantage.