Gender wars are a term that I had not been too familiar with prior to this class. Although I have not heard this specific term, I can see the struggle between men and women and a sense of who is more powerful on a daily basis. We are lucky to be in a generation where they are TRYING to make it so women and men have the same opportunities and are treated as equals. This, however, instigates a “war” between the two sexes (or genders) to see which will prevail over the other. This then begins my first discussion question, is there really a war over power solely because two people have different sex organs?
In my opinion gender wars is prevalent in many “ pop culture” television shows. Instead of using the word war, MTV has chosen the world “ battle” for one season of their popular show real world/road rules challenge (battle of the sexes). Although not being an avid real world/road rules watcher I did catch a few episodes when the season was on air. It was various games competing to win a lump sum of money or prizes. This specific season of the show must have gotten high ratings, because there was a season 2, battle of the sexes. This reality show alone shows gender wars. And if there weren’t already gender wars, the social media sure is provoking men and women to engage in them. Do you agree that social media sometimes pushes men VS women?
I think the war metaphor is a little harsh to be using in a social context. When I think of war the words devastation and death come to mind. I think a better word to use would be competition, if there were any kind of “war” going on at all. Gender competitions.
Yes, I agree with your input on using the word war as a metaphor. Gender competitions would be a better metaphor.
ReplyDeleteWar - 4.) Active hostility or contention; conflict; contest: a war of words.
ReplyDeleteThere's so many different meanings, but most people, including myself, usually think of extreme violence and death. The media likes to hype these stereotypes and images because it brings in money and viewers. Maybe a different way of thinking about it is that the whole gender war is like North and South Korea. They're still at war, but both sides are trying to solve their problems through peaceful negotiation rather then violence. Well at least the South side is.