Relating

I think that with the videos and chapter 6 Melanie Wood, who has a PH.D in math and has won a silver metal for the U.S international Mathematical Olympiad team, was probably always pressured by media and society to do other things. Commercials don't say, go be a mathematician they say go to this website(spend daddy's money) and buy shoes that have heels in them that wont show. Instead of her girlfriends pushing for a math study group, I'm sure they were tying to go to the mall and do a rites of passage activity and get the new Victoria secret bra that gives a little "extra push" so boys notice you. When we see commercials with jobs like engineering, debate, govt, business, math we see men with there female secretary's, assistants, their wives. There are a plethora of housewives shows where they aren't even wives they are divorced single woman. Who's rich husbands left them for a younger woman pushing the truth that Americans are obsessed with youth, and when you get enough wealth you trade in old with new. This is our cultures values and beliefs. I think this media shows people that vows aren't that sacred and its ok cause everybody is doing it. Its ok to get a divorce cause woman loss value with age and if your rich enough it doesn't matter if she gets half, but this also makes men a target for hot gold diggers.

With chapter 6 they say alot of children's socialization is learned in the home, which is true. I feel that its really apparent when you look at a guy, who hits his babys mother, speaks badly to her and disrespects her. He probably puts his child in bad situations like maybe, hanging with him and his friends late on a street corner. Cat calling woman,  him and his friends talking about "hoes they bang" learning the child bad ways of being. Constant objectification of woman, hanging with peers groups with similar backgrounds. A mother who may be there but works alot will not be able to combat all the outside influence. So of course this child will be one of the guys that adhere to the man box and the foundation table of men.