Gender Roles

In this blog, dicussing gender roles I am going to discuss a few different but very similar texts. This weekend I found myself flipping on the television a few times, as I flipped through the normal VH1 and MTV channels, I saw some shows that were quite frightening. Shows like "Rock of Love Bus" or "For the Love of Ray J" where women throw themselves at men, half naked most of the time. The discussion is indeed an opinion, but when you see these shows you think, does this make women look good? I suppose not all women on these shows are "trashy" but more than not they are not making themselves look like classy ladies. Than you take in the fact that the men on these shows just go through these women like they are nothing, "hooking up" and than telling them to go home and leave the competition. I sit there and think to myself, why? Why do these women do this type of thing? Young 22ish year old women going after some firty 49 year old man, tacky much? I guess this may not be a great text for talking about gender roles, but still maybe if you think about it a little deeper you can see there is something there. Women, seen as these people who should bow to men and throw themselves at them, while men can just use them and then throw them away like nothing. Maybe because, the idea of double standards has always bothered me, and when I watch these shows it just really makes me angry to think that women act like this. The idea of women can get called sluts for "hooking up" than guys get a high five for doing the same thing x10. Just something to think about I guess.

I watched "Rock of Love Bus" on VH1 (channel 32) Sundays @ 9.