January 12, 2020
Misrepresentation
Hey guys, welcome back to the blog with your favorite blogger, Noelle. So in my critical thinking class, we watched this video about the portrayal of women in media. Something that was brought up about women in media was how women are less valuable after they have a baby. After spending time thinking over this topic that was mentioned, I began immediately thinking of the television show, Friends. Although I love the show, I cannot deny the negative aspects and stereotypes that it holds over many things such as gender roles. In the show, Friends, there is this specific episode that comes to mind where Rachel is pregnant and is not showing but when she goes on her date, she gets dumped because she told her date that she was pregnant. Just the thought of being pregnant over powered her personality as the man was focused on her body. A similar instance happened in a previous episode when there was some confusion and and she ends up talking with her ex, Tag, and he is telling Rachel how much she wants to be with her but the second she tells him that she is pregnant, he dips. This is just so degrading in that it presents women as worthless once they are pregnant or after they have had a child. It is extremely degrading as this journey a women goes through can be one of the hardest thing that someone may go through and it makes it seem like they are worthless during and after this journey. If you want to see this episode you can find it, it is season 8 episode 2. The link at the bottom is a more detailed plot description. Okay, bye. https://friends.fandom.com/wiki/The_One_With_The_Red_Sweater
I have never watched Friends, but I totally agree on how degrading media can be towards women no matter what they do. They often say to be successful a women has a to be a motherly figure, but then look down upon them because they are pregnant. The media expects too much for women.
ReplyDeleteThat is honestly sad. It is already hard enough being a woman, but to be ashamed for creating life is just so unnecessary and horrible. Women give birth and go through a to create a life, like men are born after being in their mother's womb for months and I just feel like its so degrading. The way media portrays women just adds to more generations of false expectations of women and unfairness.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with this statement. In my missrepresentation post, I had also talked about the show Friends. Through the character of Monica, I depicted that the show was representing that women's only goal in life was to have children instead of taking a more prominent career path. After reading this blog, I now see how stereotypes show women as being only worthy of having children, but worthless after getting pregnant.
ReplyDeleteI have never seen Friends before but I feel like in most movies or shows where the women are going on a date and they have kids it is also an immediate no from the men. I think this is stupid because women have to go through so much being pregnant and all and they don't need to go through more trouble just to find love.
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