After reading this article, I started to think of the small number of shows I enjoy watching. Most of them have men characters that are in control, and some have female characters that are able to assert themselves. But there is one show that I like that fits what this article is talkking about perfectly, "Bones." The main character is a woman who is very smart and good looking, her boss is also a woman and very good looking and her co-workers are a mix of women and men. The main character is shown through every season as single and not interested in having a relationship. Her co-workers try to get her to become involved in a relationship, but she is to interested in her work. This is showing that a women with her type of job which is an anthropologist, cant get involved with anyone intimately because it could jeapordize her career. It is a trade-off, career over a relationship.
I am sure this is not the only show that has this in it. And what is this teaching the women in our society? That we have to chose a decent career over having a relationship, a sex life, a love life, a family. Then there is the idea that we have to still look good no matter what we do. How can we be happy with ourselves if the media is pushing the idea on us that we have to please men and that we have to have the ideal body and wear the ideal clothes. I am personally sick of the media, and wish that our society would take a stand against this. More women need to show that they are beautiful inside and out, no matter what and that they don't need to please men to get ahead in life. But until this happens, women will continue to be under men and will have to find ways to live happily while having to please them.
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