Food Zheng – Discussion 7

After reading this week’s readings, I would like to be honest and say that I am seriously ignorant of the entire women’s rights movement. I was very surprised how the movement is named after waves, and how they stopped counting it that way in the third/fourth wave so to speak. But I wonder why they classify it this way? As far as I know (and sorry if this also happens with other movements) most of the movements are called by their names instead of “waves”. I’m not criticizing the way it was classified, but I can feel a bit out of place that it is named this way. Likewise, reading Katz Jackson’s “Guilty Pleasures Pornography, Prostitution and Stripping” got me thinking about whether porn or stripping itself leads men to take advantage of women? Since in the reading, he talks about how he has seen or even gone to stripping but has never thought about oppressing women, but if we think about it another way, pornography and stripping are a way of oppressing women. women. I know, there is also porn or stripping based on making men more vulnerable, but regularly they only show women in a position of submission. That makes me wonder if this actually affects the thoughts of man, or is it that most of us are capable of knowing what reality and fiction are? I also found Vasquez Tina’s reading “It’s Time to End the Long History of Feminism Failing Transgender Women” very interesting, who explains a very strong reality for women and men, who go through the process of changing their sex in order to feel comfortable with themselves. That she explains, about how transgender people also go through strong moments, where they are discriminated against, criticized, and even attacked for having made this decision. Which is extremely sad, since they just want to be able to be what they feel they really are. This week’s readings were very interesting and informative, to learn more about what happened in history and even today.

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  1. Catherine

    Hello Food! I think that media that objectifies and sexualizes women probably affects subconsciously the ideas about women of the viewer. I feel like if you have strong beliefs, and you know that women are human beings just like men and deserve the same amount of respect, watching that kind of media will not change your beliefs or make you take advantage of women. The problem is that since we live in a patriarchal system, I feel like most men aren’t aware about this issue and their sexism and misogyny is very internalized. This also affects women by influencing self-objectification.

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