Saturday, October 9, 2010
Male=Power
Most of the comments I got were boys saying I should do it. I don't know if it was a joke or not, but I have always been rather sporty so I don't think it surprised anyone. This being said, I think that girls are judged less when they do "male oriented" activities than boys do when they do "female oriented" activities. Like we were talking about in class, I think this is because often male oriented activities have power attached with them. It is understandable for women to do male oriented activities to gain power, but not for men to give up power by doing female oriented activities. Why then do male activities have power associated with them in the first place?
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You bring up a really interesting question. It must just be the fact that the world is only now changing to more of an equality between men and women activities. The men did used to be the only ones to do the aggressive things, so maybe that's where it has stemmed from. I had pretty much the same uneventful reaction on my status too.
That's an interesting perspective. I never thought of it like that. To power down is frowned upon, powering up is usually encouraged. I think because men are usually physically stronger that's where the power stemmed from. The gender codes were set from early times. The men would take care care of the women; maybe giving them the start of this "power" over women.
I think that's an interesting question - it's probably because traditionally men have been in positions of power. I didn't get much of a reaction to my post either - most people just "liked" it or encouraged me to do it
maybe because sewing loses a man's power while kickboxing increases a woman's power?
It's true, for guys it's kinda cool that a girl does stuff like that, but as long as they are not dating or married to that girl.
I think that as a society we classify power as having physical strength. I don't think they are interrelated at all times; it depends on the situation.
I would agree with a comment that was stated above. kickboxing brigs power whereas sewing is an activity that is looked as less empowering.
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