Random

I think this blog will be about several different topics. The first being what we watched in class and how explicit and terrible all of it was. It degrades women and I think if any guy watches that stuff and finds ‘pleasure’ out of it then something is wrong. Shoving something into a woman should not turn any guy on. I do not have much else to say about that, but I was watching True Life on MTV and one of the episodes were that they were addicted to watching pornography. It showed three different guys and they were all dating and it affected their relationships and if I remember right two of the guys broke it off with their girlfriends while the other was able to work through it. I do not think you should outlaw pornography, even though I do not agree with it, it is someone’s job and if that is the only income they have then so be it. It will also be hard to define what porn is and what is not. But I will not be surprised if they tried to outlaw pornography in the future.
The other topic I have relates to women’s studies but we watched the video in sociology. We watched a Dateline episode from the 80’s or 90’s and they did a test of how employers and unequal women are treated. One study was they took a man and a woman to go buy a car, they put a little hidden camera on their shirts to video tape it all. When the woman went to go look for a car, the sells man raised the price for the car, and would not let her test drive it because of ‘insurance reasons’, she had to ride while he drove around. Also, when she tried to negotiate the price he only went down $200 dollars. When the man went, he was able to test drive the car off the lot without the sells man even in the car. The starting price was lower than the woman’s and he negotiated about $800 dollars. When they confronted the sales guy, of course he made excuses saying “he is new to the job,” and how woman do not know as much as men about cars.
Another study was when they took the same man and woman went to apply for a job. It was the same company but had two different jobs, one as secretary and one as assistant manager. One the woman’s application they made her more qualified in the business with more work experience and education. When she went into the interview the employer assumed that she wanted to become the secretary and did not even offer her the assistant manager job position even though she was qualified and more educated. For the man, his application said he had little to no experience and little education and when he went for the interview the employer offered him the assistant manager position. After confronting the employer he said that would relate a secretary to a woman and would not even think about hiring a male for the position. Also there was about $1.50 difference in the pay the employer mentioned to the male and female.