Sunday, February 7, 2016
Gender readings
After reading the article I sat back and contemplated its connection to Magic Mike. To be honest I really enjoyed Magic Mike to be honest mostly because Mike had spot on game. However, I have to side with Sophia Gilbert as far as who I agree with the most. I liked how she wasn't prude to the movies sort of outlandish roles the characters represent. I like how she freely watched them and doesn't take it too seriously. Just like in real life men and women strippers are often viewed as entertainment. Society has objectified them into sexual objects thats only value is to entertain people. I also agree with the way she said the movie might have been about strippers, but men and women alike could watch the movie and enjoy it. It also is good for women because it objectifies men and for once men can see what it is like to be objectified and that women tend to be more caring than men can be sometimes. However, I think the connection between the reversed roles only because it was an all men cast not women. It also shows how a man should honestly treat a women with respect and to always be honest.
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In general, I do agree with you on taking Sophia Gilbert’s side, the way she expresses and says thing is a bit more aloof and agreeable. I’ve never honestly looked down on stripping, and in fact there are some statistics that show why women strip, so after watching those statistics I could see that most of them like it and do it purely for entertainment. I can’t say the same about the statistics in men because I really haven’t found any. But I am sure it would go the same way, pure entertainment. In society we see how many look down on women striping, because it is a downgrading job, because it doesn’t support a person, because you are “selling your body” and so many other phrases that look down on it, but why don’t men get this? Maybe a few but in general all women do. In Magic Mike XXL, the roles flip, women are the ones who objectify men. But even then they show some form of care and not abusive. It all goes back to gender norms. Why do women who strip get a type of judgement? And why do men that strip get a different type of judgement?
ReplyDeleteJack I like your point regarding how it objectifies men for a change and reverse the roles, which we would normally see. I have not personally seen the Magic Mike movies but I have a very good idea about the movie and have a general idea about what I am missing. Sophia Gilbert did do a very good job in being respectful to the movie by taking what she saw and not bashing it when discussing it. She states the strippers are seen as entertainment whether they are male or female and I agree that they are. Even though it may not be the right way to view them at the end of the day they picked that profession and it comes with the territory. So in my opinion they shouldn’t complain about being objectified like that. They knew it before accepting the job. But it doesn’t make it wrong or unfair that men do the same. It’s equal and if there are people willing to do it will continue into the future.
ReplyDeleteI agree with this blog, just not the whole reverse objectification roles. I think people allow themselves to be objectified and that stripping has nothing to do with objectification unless a woman or man allows it to be that way. The reason I say this is because it is a job. Someone has to do it, and as long as a stripper isn’t putting themselves any further than what their job entails, then what it the problem? My mom told me she worked with a guy married to a stripper and at some points she made more money than him. As for the article I too agree with Sophia Gilbert- it’s a movie, not sure if there is much more to look past other than what it on the screen, its meant solely for entertainment, if it were a documentary I am sure the whole idea behind would be a lot more specific.
ReplyDeleteI agree with how you mentioned that Sophia Gilbert wasn’t being “prude” to the movies’ roles. That’s a good way to put it. She wasn’t necessarily mad at the movie but how they depicted men and women differently. The characters represented a good sense of reality though and how in fact men are in some way objectified differently as strippers than women. This being that men do it because they can’t find the girl they want or plain out just for the money/entertainment. Men are more of entertainers, but then again, so are women…so why does the conflict even come to matter when talking about their different roles. They both do the same thing, not so much entirely show their whole bodies, but represent the same image that one would want to see or is seeking when going to a strip club of any kind. I agree with you that you said men and women could watch this movie and enjoy it, but obviously women would go crazy for it more and have more place in the theatre, unless you’re homosexual men which also would enjoy is just as much. She mentions straight men are “dragged” to this movie by their girlfriends or wives and that implies that heterosexual men would not necessarily be dying to see a bunch of male strippers for their own enjoyment, but turn the tables around you’ll find men going to see the same movie but of women.
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