Monday, April 22, 2013
A Call to Men.
A call to men to me was about men not being truly free, because they have to adhere to the constraints of what a "real man" is supposed to be and that the old rules need to be torn down challenged and be replaced with new ones. The little boy said, to live outside the man box i would be truly free. Tony said that men need to see woman more as equals, because then we could try to stop the violence that has only intensified against us.This piece reminds me of when i was younger and my mom had a long term boyfriend who i actually liked, (unlike her other ones) and lived with us. Me and him were talking one day and he said to me id never go hungry. I said why?, well because i was sitting on a goldmine, my vagina. Another time i had sex with a friend(so i thought)and he said could you have sex with my other friend, he is a good guy and really kinda needs it right now. He was trying to guilt me in to it! Both of these times -but definitely not only- i felt sexually objectified. These guys thought my vagina was up for grabs and public property, and i shouldn't object because vagina's get penetrated and since i am an extension of my vagina, for them to mentally and emotionally penetrate me was fine. How about you will never be hungry cause your smart and will get a good job, or thanks Blu for sharing yourself with me. I know you don't just do it with anyone.
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This last picture Blue! i like it! I am glad that the "traditional male" is an endangered specie! It's time to change that old way of thinking that a lot of men still have. Not only women have to be a parent. With the fact that gay marriage is now legal in some states, I think that parenting ways will become different as well. Men will take on "female roles" to raise their children and so masculinity can take on a different course. I personally do not think that boys only need to learn how to be macho-men, instead they also need to be sensitive so they can learn ho to treat women with sensitivity and care for them. I feel like some people are scared of these changes in masculinity, because they might think that in the future there will be a whole bunch of gay boys roaming the planet, but as Professor Applewhite and as I also believe; people aren't just taught to be gay, lesbian, transgender or bisexual.
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