This is for my mom. I know I don’t say it much, and some days I don’t say it at all, but I love you. I know I push away your hugs and I ignore your calls and texts. Sometimes I don’t wanna talk to you, and some days I enjoy your company. And when we fight, we fight for blood. You raise your voice, I raise mine, sometimes it gets violent. We allow our differences to define us. What […]
Are we going to manipulate the future of gender stereotypes or will the gender stereotypes itself, shape our future? The Huffington Post reports state that gender roles are immensely used in advertisements which frequently retain hidden depth and unperceivable messages. In accordance with Medialit, it claims that the division of gender roles are deeply rooted for some groups of people. Right beneath our nose, almost every advertisement encompasses gender stereotypes which both men and women are adversely affected by. For […]
“You throw like a girl. You hit like a girl. You run like a girl.” — You’re weak. This voice is echoed every day, every minute and every second throughout the universe. Out of many commercials that were aired during the Super Bowl in 2015, the 60-second-ad, “LikeAGirl”, was outstanding. The advertisement upstaged the crowded stadium as it has made its first appearance to advocate for women and express the perception of being “LikeAGirl” during the Super Bowl, which football […]
When we think of a man, we often think of masculinity. But are all men masculine? Or do they need to be masculine? That’s the way many men think about how they should be. This is not necessarily what girls and women think. I asked a question to several females I know, ranging from Asians to Westerns, and from 15-year-old teenagers to a 30-year-old woman. The question is “What does a real man mean to you?” Very little of the […]
TED – We teach girls that they can have ambition, but not too much … to be successful, but not too successful, or they’ll threaten men, says author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. In this classic talk that started a worldwide conversation about feminism, Adichie asks that we begin to dream about and plan for a different, fairer world — of happier men and women who are truer to themselves.
In today’s world of advertising, it’s no secret that sex sells. “Advertisers use sex because it can be very effective,” said Tom Reichert, professor and head of College of Information and Communications. A study published by the University of Georgia that looked at 3,232 full-page ads for sexual content from Playboy to Time and Newsweek to Esquire from 1983 to 2003, discover that the numbers are on the rise. Although, “female models were more explicitly dressed in 2003 (49%) than […]
“Girls do not need to learn a lot because they cannot avoid plates and pots.” This is a phrase that gets stuck in Khmer elders’ minds, and it adversely affects girls’ education, girls’ lives, girls’ societies, and girls’ countries. Growing up in the province, I always heard this phrase, and it is a common belief that a woman is supposed to feed, support, and take care of her family. So, what is the point of receiving a high education if […]