Gender issues surround our environment in many different ways. Females seem to be portrayed as the weaker link. As a woman I think that males tend to be shown as the stronger one where as gays, lesbians, and bisexuals are shown as nothing. For instance, in basketball men are shown to be the ones who can play the sports. They think that they are the only ones that can play and that the WNBA can’t accomplish as much. When it comes to stations like the sports center and fox sports or any other sports channels its all about the men, female sports are not broadcasted as much because apparently men can do more than women. Of course not all people believe but, the majority of them do. No woman thinks that they are better than all men, but they do know that they are very much capable of doing anything a man can do. Gender also ties in with family issues. When we see a father being the house dad, and the mother working we think that there is something wrong with their household. This is the same problem when men see woman bringing all the money into the household. I feel that women are stereotyped as the ones who have to stay at home, cook, clean, and take care of the families. I don’t think that is true. Women can do as they please and some of them are much more successful than men are with their careers and in their lives in general. Men feel inferior to women who are more successful but women never feel inferior to men who are more successful than them. I don’t see how this works. I don’t think that men should be able to feel this way. Because of things like this gender is an issue. When women go to apply for a job, there is countless amounts of times where they don’t receive the job because they think that men are better fit for the job when in fact the women has better credentials. I feel like things like this will always surround us even though they shouldn’t, but there is nothing we can do about it. Things now and days are much better than 50 years ago but it is always going to remain an issue.
N. Patel
I agree with what you have written in your post. Yes, things are better now a days but there still is some stereotyping going on. One thing I really dont understand and you said it in your post is that why is it that a man will get a job but a woman wont even though the woman could work the job? I dont know; I guess this is something I wont understand.
M. Hannawa
Nice post, NP. You bring up a good point…many women do not want to claim that they are better than men or don’t need men or hate men, they just claim they are as capable at doing things as men.
I agree with you about how men sportsare broadcasted more than womens sports. Take the Shock for instants. When the Pistons won the championship it was all over the news and on the front cover of the news papers but when the shock were doing good and won championships you would have to go to the middle of the sports section to read about it. As much as I would like for men and women to be treated more as equals when it comes to sports, i cant help but say that it is going to take a long time for some people to even consider it.
J. Pingle