Are you tired of working out to sexist videos in the RAC?
Are you tired of working out to sexist videos in the RAC?
posted about 13 years ago
After watching MISS Representation, the documentary by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, I have been thinking a lot about how women are portrayed in the media. I try to stay away from the media and filter my own news, but more and more I realize that it is just pervasive. ( By the way, MISS Representation is coming to campus on Tuesday, November 29th. I encourage EVERYONE to see it. It is not just for women.)
I try to work out at least 4 times a week, and in the RAC I go either to the Dance Studio or the balcony in the back next to the studio or downstairs to avoid the TVs because most of the videos that I see are just plain disturbing to me. The way the women are dressed versus men, videos of men with a harem of women in bikinis, videos displaying violence toward women even though their message is not to hit women. It is evident that these videos were not meant for me, and I have to make huge efforts to avoid them.
After the seeing the documentary, I thought why am I having to work so hard to avoid these messages? Don't I have a right to world without sexist media? Is anyone else who works out that the RAC bothered by the MTV U videos?
I try to work out at least 4 times a week, and in the RAC I go either to the Dance Studio or the balcony in the back next to the studio or downstairs to avoid the TVs because most of the videos that I see are just plain disturbing to me. The way the women are dressed versus men, videos of men with a harem of women in bikinis, videos displaying violence toward women even though their message is not to hit women. It is evident that these videos were not meant for me, and I have to make huge efforts to avoid them.
After the seeing the documentary, I thought why am I having to work so hard to avoid these messages? Don't I have a right to world without sexist media? Is anyone else who works out that the RAC bothered by the MTV U videos?
