On Tuesday, the class still talked about how to prevent rape by
language, theory and feminist politics. Students suggest some aspects of
language where rape is shown. For instance, people tend to convince themselves
that rape is ok. The instructor suggests that in order to change the rape
culture, people need to change their language. Students said human language is
historical based because it exists in old religious texts like Bible. This sort
of caught my interest because I know that bible depicts only one God and he is
a man. All other female goddesses are less powerful than him. Yet this context
didn’t say why God can’t be woman, or why female Goddesses are less powerful
than male. To me, the Christian religion might enforce sexism, a concept that fundamentally
relates our modern rape culture. People learned that man is the dominator throughout
generations. If people want to change the way rape culture is designed, they
should alter the context of how women are depicted in history. This part is
extremely difficult because it may alter people’s tradition and a lot of people
don’t like it. Like for instance, in Christian religion, they should be able to
say that God is a woman because woman can be as powerful as man, but Christian
religion is not just a doctrine but also a tradition, Christians worship their
God and are used to the idea God is a guy. To change their religion would be to
disrupt their lives and everything they believed in. Loyal Christians might
treat change as an anti-religious movement.
Not just in religion, women are historically subordinate to men. Back
to the history, women are treated as prostitutes and slaves. In 1970s, men hold
the right to own properties but women don’t. Women also don’t have the right to
vote. In post-modern eras, women don’t go to school or work; their traditional roles
are housewives, wives, and mother. All they should think about is to find a
husband and marry. Also, women are expected to stay home and be the caretaker.
Women who play sports are considered non-traditional and manly. The reading suggests
that maybe women should abandon feminine stereotypes and be more independent
and strong. I think this idea is debatable. If women abandon their feminine
traits like their traits of being a mom, they can choose work over children.
This aspect actually is growing bigger in modern society. For instance, Many
Japanese women today choose not to have children or even marry because they don’t
want to be the caretaker. And the Japanese population is going down because
women refused to have kids. If they become a mother, they have to play the role
of caretaker, because there’s not way their husbands will be the caretaker.
This can show that some feminine stereotypes still exists today and favored by
society. Society doesn’t encourage men to be the caretaker so women have to
take that role; this tradition empowers men while dissatisfies women, because
women also wants to be ambitious and strong, but they can’t be when they have
to take care of a child. Society still keeps teaching women to be feminine
through commercialization. Media makes women think if they wear make ups and be
sexually attractive, men will come and talk to them. American women started to
learn how to dress up or how to do make-ups at an early age; this cultural
aspect is very different from China. If you go to China, you will find that
very few Chinese women do make-ups while in high school or even in college,
because society doesn’t expect women to show their attractiveness in a sexy
way. Instead of being overly feminine and sexy, Chinese society expects women
to look natural. They don’t have to put on a party dress and heavy make-ups or
go to a bar and get drunk; that’s not how Chinese people define “sexy.” If a
Chinese girl get too drunk or wear a really short skirt and flirt with men all
the time, her parents and friends will perceive it as unhealthy or
unconstrained. So I guess, if American women want to abandon their feminine
characters when diminishing rape culture, they should also change the way they
look. But again American society doesn’t want women look natural; they expect
women to look sexy and get a man and have babies in order to keep their
civilization from extinction.
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