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matrixmann) wrote2015-02-18 09:28 am
matrixmann) wrote2015-02-18 09:28 am
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About the presence of female and male role models in media and their educational function
What kind of role models do young males have these days?
Okay, you can go with your father, you can go with your brother, you can go with any other male relative you're close to or that exists in your regular surroundings.
But what if none of that exists?
What, if none of that is good for anything, do you have to offer as a replacement?
For the youngsters, you may have a little yellow sponge, but be that TV show as stupid as it is. Aside from that, you barely have some catchy figures that reflect a character which gets stuck in your head.
For the elders, media offers a few superheroes, depending on where you live, and some wannabe figures and epilepsy causing action figures whose profile as a person is very flat or not acurately reflected due to them being actually suited for a more adult audience.
The almost matured do already have the musicians left, and some more or less flatened video game figures which do nothing more than shooting abstract figures and some humans.
The musicians partly can be used as a role model- strongly depending on who it is.
The wider the age turns up, the lesser you find some.
The last instance are some old-aged action heroes from the last century.
Apart from the numeral appearance, does that carry some variety?
If you look what had been done on the side for females, it is downright a shame.
Females can be the clever one, females can be the heroines, they can kick somebody's ass, they can kill people, they can be sensitive, they can be a mother, they can be a boss, they can earn money at all, or they can just be the princess in the pink fairy tale land.
In some rare occasions they're even allowed to be the antagonist.
What media offers as a role model for males simply can be reduced to the sharp shooter on his never-ending quest to destroy everything, being downright stupid all the time or playing the kong trying to impress the ladies and defending his territory.
Aside from that, the only thing you get offered otherwise is the softie that nobody likes. - Or, to be exact, that the females like, but his own members of the same sex detest because his touchy-feely kind gets him more female companion.
The media also continues to enhance those types.
Compared to the change that had been done to role models for females and the change still being done, it is an evidence of incapacity.
Especially because female role models become a topic over and over again, but male ones get completely locked out.
Like "males know how males behave from the moment they're born".
In regard to the fact that lesser and lesser boys grow up without their fathers (Gayropa ≠ gay: "If you ask why there are no men in the West or wannabe strongs, then ask why their dads were so proud of them that they needed to disappear"), more surrounded by female educational personnel and women in care positions, and lack of reasonable male figures in their close environment this issue becomes a serious problem.
Males become torn between trying to fulfill what society demands of them and their imagination of themselves.
They're missing a guideline how to please everyone else's needs while still maintaining their identity and their identity as a male.
Instead they get filled with clichés.
And the female educational and care personnel can't make up for that because women don't behave, women don't think and, above all, women don't feel like males.
Okay, you can go with your father, you can go with your brother, you can go with any other male relative you're close to or that exists in your regular surroundings.
But what if none of that exists?
What, if none of that is good for anything, do you have to offer as a replacement?
For the youngsters, you may have a little yellow sponge, but be that TV show as stupid as it is. Aside from that, you barely have some catchy figures that reflect a character which gets stuck in your head.
For the elders, media offers a few superheroes, depending on where you live, and some wannabe figures and epilepsy causing action figures whose profile as a person is very flat or not acurately reflected due to them being actually suited for a more adult audience.
The almost matured do already have the musicians left, and some more or less flatened video game figures which do nothing more than shooting abstract figures and some humans.
The musicians partly can be used as a role model- strongly depending on who it is.
The wider the age turns up, the lesser you find some.
The last instance are some old-aged action heroes from the last century.
Apart from the numeral appearance, does that carry some variety?
If you look what had been done on the side for females, it is downright a shame.
Females can be the clever one, females can be the heroines, they can kick somebody's ass, they can kill people, they can be sensitive, they can be a mother, they can be a boss, they can earn money at all, or they can just be the princess in the pink fairy tale land.
In some rare occasions they're even allowed to be the antagonist.
What media offers as a role model for males simply can be reduced to the sharp shooter on his never-ending quest to destroy everything, being downright stupid all the time or playing the kong trying to impress the ladies and defending his territory.
Aside from that, the only thing you get offered otherwise is the softie that nobody likes. - Or, to be exact, that the females like, but his own members of the same sex detest because his touchy-feely kind gets him more female companion.
The media also continues to enhance those types.
Compared to the change that had been done to role models for females and the change still being done, it is an evidence of incapacity.
Especially because female role models become a topic over and over again, but male ones get completely locked out.
Like "males know how males behave from the moment they're born".
In regard to the fact that lesser and lesser boys grow up without their fathers (Gayropa ≠ gay: "If you ask why there are no men in the West or wannabe strongs, then ask why their dads were so proud of them that they needed to disappear"), more surrounded by female educational personnel and women in care positions, and lack of reasonable male figures in their close environment this issue becomes a serious problem.
Males become torn between trying to fulfill what society demands of them and their imagination of themselves.
They're missing a guideline how to please everyone else's needs while still maintaining their identity and their identity as a male.
Instead they get filled with clichés.
And the female educational and care personnel can't make up for that because women don't behave, women don't think and, above all, women don't feel like males.
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I agree with nearly everything you say. I guess I'm very conservative compared to most people in Southern California. My big problem is that I'm not religious at all and I'm not interested in the business world. So, it doesn't feel comfortable to me to be around other conservatives.
I can make really left wing statements too though, but about things concerning worker's wages, unions, funding of education, etc...
I was thinking the other day though that being moderate or between the two prevailing positions of liberal and conservative is sort of rebellious nowadays because it involves thinking and actively disagreeing with most things you hear or read.
What's going to happen, I think, is the younger generation that is not interested in male role models will someday be without jobs and THAT! might bring back the male role model.
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I may need to explain the legal situation first because you will see the (even greater) ridiculousness.
If you've been married, here in Germany you need to first must have had a year of seperation and then you can file the petition for divorce. The only times where this doesn't apply is when it's a case of hardship - but I don't know how exactly that is defined. Lots of cases where you might think it's a hardship of broken trust, you have to get the regular way through even though.
Then you have the issue with aliments. Through the time of the seperation as long as the divorce isn't official the partner who earns more money in his job has to aliment you.
After the divorce, under certain circumstances, even too. (For example, children - aliments for the children themselves; if they're still infants and the partner who has them can't do a job because of them, he can also claim aliments for himself.)
Because of other social reasons, it pretty often is the divorcing husband who has to pay. (If she earns more than him, then it can also be her.)
Then most often the divorcing wifes get the children after it. It somehow is like a natural law that authorities and courts induce...
So, you see, there are circumstances that aliments flow often enough and there's one general cash cow who gets forced to open the wallet.
These are laws and orders made in the time where wifes still needed to ask her husband of they're allowed to get a job.
Even though the dicisions of the courts have a little changed over time for the part of the aliments of a partner after the divorce, that they rather become forced to work for an income of their own if there's no reason that hinders them from doing so, but the rest of all that orders - and other court decisions around that topic, see the problem of who gets the children - look so much like made more than 50 years ago. And they were never adapted to the newer times.
So talking about that men feel like left behind or exploited.
There's no need to regard it as "conservative".
If you have your viewpoint and you can underline it with unemotional arguments, then there's nothing one may complaint about.
Nothing to say about my own direction, but within myself I think "conservative" is the last thing I would attach to myself. Think I rather sometimes sound like a commie (by European definition).
And I do find my doubts on many things as well which walk down the direction that you find.
To "bringing the male role model" - that's what I fear. I don't guess they're going to take healthy role models. They will be willing to drag the role models of one hundred years ago out and throw all of the equality movement and rights for gays and transgenders on the stack of oblivion. In other words, you can also say they will try to bring back fascism.