I don't know why there are suddenly so many threads popping up about how women are inequal/exploited, and I've held my tongue, but I find it harder and harder to do so, especially in cases like this.
Just for a moment, I want you to sit back and stop looking at things from your narrow perspective and try something different. Let's take a look at games, movies, music, and advertising aimed towards women.
In movies, and god I've seen a lot of them recently, chick flicks(Otherwise known as the formula romantic comedy) feature a woman that female audiences are supposed to identify with, and a male protagonist that is supposed to represent everything they want. He's fit, smart, funny, and above all, no matter what she does to him, he's supposed to come running back, which of course he does. Formula for these movies is they have fun, they have a falling out, and either he comes back to her, or she comes back to him and expects him to forgive all. That's just in movies.
Games geared towards women are the same way. Yes, your women can do everything a man can do, but lets look at the men in these games. They're all about seven feet tall and weigh as much as a grizzly bear. They're chiseled adonis' of masculinity, and why is that? Because women want someone attracctive, and no one wants to look at a nerdy little, 95 pound bookworm with glasses so think their eyes have disappeared from sight. And why is that? I happen to be one of those nerdy people, are you saying that I can't content as well as anyone else? I'd bet you I could, but in womens games, men are just objectified as eye candy.
But that's all examples of men. As far as women as sex symbols, let's turn to advertising. Products geared towards women are all advertisied by women as well. The auditions for these products only take the most beautiful women they can find. And that's because women will pay attention to other good looking women. If Pantene was sold by a 50 year old monther of four who lived in the suberbs of Paris, Texas, the company would go under tomorrow. Women are the ones that seem to spend a great deal of time arguing that they're exploited as these great sex symbols, and yet at the same time, sex symbols are exactly what they make themselves out to be and try to be.
NOW, in rebuttal for all those people that are going to attack me for being sexist, I want to say that I'm all for feminism, and I'm all for equal rights. But the battle is over, and so is the war. Women have all the same legal rights as men, and women have all the same social rights as well, including a few others. Men don't get maternity leave. Sure, some places are starting to come around, but for the most part, while mom is at home with baby, or god forbid, in one of those hospital suites racking up about $400 a day, Dad is at work already paying bills. Women need to take themselves out of the fighting mode and go back to just being people. The equal rights have been won, but what people are after now is special rights, retribution for all the time they didn't have it, and whether you think that women deserve some kind of reparation similar to that sought by the black community once upon a time, that doesn't make it right.
That's all I have to say for now. So in the words of the human torch, flame on.
