Hey Guys. So I’m not usually one to revisit topics, but I seemed to get a lot of good feedback on my last post about stereotypes of the “feminist.” Well I’ve been digging around since then and trying to find more stereotypes. Unfortunately, I have still not turned up many good responses to what “Feminism” is. The first video I want to post is an experiment that one lady did on the street to find out what men AND women thought “feminism” was. Watch this video first!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pdbnzFUsXI
Ok, now that you watched the first video. What do you think? How do you feel? Many of you had a strong reaction to my last blog post which listed common feminist stereotype, does seeing actual people say these hurtful (and wrong) things make a bigger impact on your reaction??
This next video is one of my favorite videos, however, it makes fun of stereotypes of women.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gspaoaecNAg
Do you think that this video is offensive to women? Do you think that the video reinforces stereotypes? This video was made purely for comedic reasons, but do you think that the video hits on a deeper level and potentially questions gender roles? ALSO, if any of you know how to connect youtube to the blog let me know I hate that you guys have to go through the link! I just am not the most technologically advanced...
I do not feel like this video is offensive to women, but at the same time it reinforces stereotypes. To me, this video isn't hurtful towards women and is aimed more in a way that is something that most women can connect with and laugh about some little thing they do in their life that most women do (as well as men but it is not stereotyped). I don't feel like this video questions gender roles, as it plays on stereotyped gender roles to the way that you can tell its obviously fictitious
ReplyDeleteWhoa that first video. That makes me really sad, actually. I'm not sure I would want to know what my friends, family members, and high school classmates would say about feminism. It's sort of like the way my grandpa and I never discuss politics.
ReplyDeleteAs for the second video, I really love it (and the others), and I think it might be one of those things where a group is trying to use stereotyping to make us question our stereotypes. I think Keyana posted on this a while back maybe? But it always makes me think of 30 Rock, where they do a series of ridiculous and stereotypical things with several of their characters but always try to complicate or point out the crazy in a way that challenges what we normally think. Of course, that could just be me justifying my love of 30 Rock.
Can there be a productive use of stereotypes or is any use of them reinforcing the negative?