…associated with masculinity. I believe the public’s view on the value of care work is also influenced by employers (see my last post on airlines/flight attendants), so they can take advantage of their employee’s labor. Worker’s rights and women’s rights must be discussed in tandem because of this.

inherently nurturing). One factor that made female care workers especially vulnerable during this time was their already low pay; many workers were not financially prepared for this event due to the degradation of care work as supposedly not requiring the same amount of skill or labor as jobs…

The loss of respect for the flight attendant was largely in part due to the airlines themselves enforcing strict rules for appearance that sexualized their employees. This once again parallels to how cheerleading *instruction* changed- an intentional move to influence our thoughts on women at work.

If men were to re-enter those same spaces after women were recruited into them, it would disprove the imagined incompetence of women in the workforce by putting them on equal ground. The perception of the job then, (just like with cheerleading!) was devalued...

…domestic work is not compensated, they do not have the financial freedom to pursue leisure or other activities outside the home while the other party can afford to relax and enjoy the fruits of their partner’s labor.

Cleaning, cooking, shopping, and child-rearing are all time-intensive forms of labor when one person is made to take all of it on for the rest of the household, but its necessity is downplayed in comparison to “breadwinner” work. Both are essential, but if the party responsible for all…

…relationships aren’t as scrutinized for this reason, though their dynamics still end up questioned within a heteronormative narrative all the same.

…in society. When people ask lesbian couples “who’s the man?”, they further enforce the idea a masculine presence is too important for a relationship to exist without it, denying the legitimacy of lesbians in the process. Arwa Mahdawi wrote briefly on how male/male…

…at the top, making the pursuit to their particular kind of perfection impossible.

of men claiming if you don’t do things exactly the way they do (eating, exercising, generally living), you’re inferior in some way. Influencers use tactics like mocking and bold, unbacked accusations to coerce their followers to live up to their lifestyle while maintaining their own spot...

of a form of media that heavily objectifies men through extremely narcissistic, perfectionism-driven portrayals with all the flaws edited and outtakes edited out for good measure. When I read the article, social media- especially gym influencers- immediately came to mind. I’ve seen so many videos…

showing us higher and higher standards to attain in sex appeal, which we may not have had any pre-existing desire to reach before witnessing it on a screen. This is a subtle form of coercion. Lucas’ article on the objectification of men uses reality TV as an example…

For sure it does, the ideas permitting sexual objectification of men are the same ones that permit SA against men. That is, the masculine belief that men’s authority cannot be overridden, and that in the unusual case it is, it makes that individual man an outcast for not fitting the mold.

Shortly after reading the article, I saw a headline on CNN’s crime and justice page about a woman caught performing illegal abortions. The criminalization of necessary healthcare is not new, but to have history repeat post Roe V. Wade is immensely disappointing to say the least.

(if it were possible for them to live to see it, that is).

and that these biases may not be so obvious until put in perspective. What we see as normal today may have been posed as equally perverted as its denigrated “other” a century ago, and what some see as perverted today may find it much more acceptable within a century more…

the family of someone undergoing a forced pregnancy poses a responsibility upon them as well.
Katz’ article on the invention of heterosexuality reminds us the biased terminology we use to describe people and actions become woven into our culture in ways that dictate our freedoms,…

everyone.
The inability to secure an abortion under the pretense sex should only be used for procreation threatens the livelihoods of everyone because anyone can be assaulted, have complications, or not be able to support a family- the last of which harms everyone as even without a uterus, being…