eternal sunshine

Society & female chauvinistic pig?

Lol

Even Johnny bravo

 This article is important because it points out the struggle that has been faced inorder to have gender equality. They also relate gender equality to been a polotical issue. I feel like the author of this article, Stephanie Coontz, is promoting that our goal shooiuld be to "develop work-life policies that enable people to put their gender values into practiceand to stop looking at work family policy as a women's issue and start seeing it as a women's rights issue that affects not just parenst but children and the elderly. This shows how sociiety always sees women as the victim or is labeled as the helpless victim.

In the article "Can't be Tamed: A Manifesto", by Molly Lambert, is more like a how to guide on how to fit in or get into what Lambert calls a "boys club". She calls the world we live in or anything we take a part of a "boys club" (ex. Jobs) because us women have to always try to fit in and are belittled due ti the fact that well never be accepted to be as great as men. His article relates a lot to the article written by Levy. Lambert is giving women a set of rules which they could follow to become a "female chauvinistic pig". She informs women how to be accepted in the male world (hangout with them and relate to them). She also mentions those girls that like to be the only female in an all male group. What I liked about this article was how Lambert acknowledges the fact that not only men exclude women but women also participate in this. Some women exclude women following the steps of a man. The second reading "Female Chauvinistic Pigs", by Levy, explains how women can start thinking like a man in order to fit in and not be inferior to men. What Levy means by been a female chauvinistic pig is not your typical girly-girl, but a girl that acts like one of the guys. They are the type of women that accept the fact that some women make it to the top no matter how they do it. Even if that means they need to use their body/looks. I liked the fact that Levy explained how been a certain race is no longer and excuse used to make you feel a certain way. She gave an example of the the three girls that didn't not get along with other females until they met each other. They became friends because they shared their way of thinking. They taught the same.

The book "Fun Home", by Bechdel, is a graphic novel based on her childhood. In the book he (Bechdel) mostly focuses on the relationship between her father and her father. The relationship between her and her father was not that great due to the way her dads character was. As you can see from her book, during her youth she mostly saw herself as a man and decided to come out at the age of 19 (said she was a lesbian). Bechdel would have drawings of herself been gender free, in other words she wouldn't look like a man or woman in her drawing. Later on her dad commits suicide making her believe that it was because of her coming out. What I liked best about the book is the weird name that she gave the book "Fun Home" making me believe that the book was going to be about a happy family of how to maintain one but it turned out to be the opposite. The title gave me an image of Something good and happy but it wasn't. What I also liked was how the dad would would hide things, as in his homosexuality and core it up to make it look like everything is perfect when it's not. It's crazy cause a lot of people in society do this. They try to cover things up and make it look like everything's okay. What I also found interesting was how she touches on the subject of the catholic church sex scandals.

The article "The Bowery Haven and Spectacle", by Chauncey, describes the Bowery in Manhattan during the time it was changing. In this article Chauncey also writes about it relation to the homosexual community. During this time Bowery was considered been a red light district. People in the high class would come down and watch shows of prostitutes, gays, cross dress males, etc. In the article, Chauncey also talks about "fairy back room saloons", where gay and straight men would go and socialize. I believe that Chauncey did a good job in giving us an image of the old Bowery and how it looked. It also showed how men of different social classes would go and socialize without been judged.

The reading "They don't want to cruise your type: Gay men of color and the racial politics of exclusion", by Han, talks about the many struggles that gay men of color experience. Not only do they experience racism in the society that they live in because of their color but they are also judged because of sexual orientation. This is known as Intersectionality. The gay black men are been judged by the gay community due to their color, so they are considered the minority within that group as well. As described in the reading, to the gay community associate a person that is gay to the white community, making them the minority group within the gay community. I found this article very interesting because I did not know the gay men of color would have any issues regarding their sexuality and race within the gay community. I personally didn't think that gay men of color would experience more obstacles in the gay community. Many are scared to come out because they fear rejection of both the gay community and by society. In the reading, Han says that "White....becomes normal because we make it so". I believe this is true because if we didn't make a big deal with a persons society would be a better place. In the second reading, " 'Homosexual and Heterosexual' questioning the terms", Jonathan Ned Katz describes the way that people define the words heterosexual and homosexual. According to Katz the word "homosexual" was publicly used in 1969 to describe unnatural way of having sex. Also the word "heterosexual" was also used to describe the relationship between a man and a woman. What I noticed in this article was that as time passed by people gave a different meaning/ definition to these words.