For today's class we watched a full documentary about sexism in media. Although I find a lot of what goes on in these documentaries very touching and opens my eyes, I find a lot of the footage talking about equality, but it's constantly generalising men and pointing at men for being the issue. Only once throughout the footage did they mention that men have it very hard to in terms of media portraying men and how they are supposed to be. For example, it took me a long long time before I believed my girlfriend when she told me that she likes how I look and she likes my body. But everyday I still have it in the back of my mind that if I don't get more muscle, or get toned or get abs, then I'm going to lose her. And in the film there were teenagers that were crying about how hard it is for them and that they will be laughed at and bullied if they don't put on ten tonnes of make up and lose weight then they will be bullied and that will bring them to cut themselves, but they get no sympathy from me because I had to deal will that when I was younger too, every single day. I do admit that women as a whole have it harder because girls tend to bitch about those sort of things more often than men, but guys bitch about those and other physical issues so much too. Also in the film they mention the fact that men have to have this masculin manly image and that is entirely true. For years I've been a fairly feminine guy and when I was in secondary school I was bullied for being 'gay', 'faggot', (comments not made because of my sexuality, but my personality alone.), 'fat fuck', etc.
It truly is horrible how women are treated by a lot of men, it really is. But it's not a problem for women. It's a problem for EVERYONE and it has to be sorted out one day or we'll have a lot more suicidal kids missing from schools and a lot more people who can't support a family because of a job that they can't get for how they look/are.
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