Sunday, October 9, 2011
Blogging Assignment Week 8
I was thinking about our discussion on the association between femininity and body hair and I came across an article that discusses the importance of hair removal to females. It talks about the role that hair removal plays in females feeling good about themselves and attractiveness. The media definitely plays a role in what they feel are gender expectations. Women feel less comfortable and less sexual when they have body hair and are unable to remove it. "A sexy woman does not have leg or armpit hair." Although male approval also plays a role in this, the article discusses the idea that there are some men that do not care or put pressure on women to shave their legs and remove their hair. It is something that women feel men expect but this is not always the case. I find this interesting because in order to feel more attractive and sexual women indulge in hair removal treatment but there are still men who find them attractive with hair. It seems that it is more for their own self-confidence and approval.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Week 8 Blogging Assignment: Rebecca Iloulian
ReplyDeleteToday I was flying from Chicago to LA (I went home for the weekend) and something I realized was that for my the most part, flight attendants are almost always female. I have had a male flight attendant before, but that generally doesn't happen. Why is it that females are always this position? I know a few decades ago when women were not considered as equal to men as they are now a days it would make sense for women to have this job. Yet still today it's almost all women in this position. It makes one question if this is because women are still on a subconcious level considered inferior to men, or if this tradition of female flight attendants just hasn't been changed even though times of gender inequality are changing. The idea of a flight attendant is to wait on somebody, which in a way embodies the idea of a house wife or something like that. House wives wait on the family and take care of everything in the home, similar to the role of the flight attendant. I just thought that was interesting. And going off of that, one quesitons the role of nurses as well. Most nurses I have encountered in my life have been female. Why is this? Why is the stereotype still that men are doctors while women are nurses? It just pushes women down to an inferior being than men and changes the equality levels in gender conflict.