Gender Issues: Don't Risk Dudeness

Last week we had a very tough, controversial discussion that had many of us in the class confused. The big discussion question was "What is a women?" This is a question that everyone has a different answer to. The dictionary definition to "woman" is..

1. the female human being (distinguished from man).

2. an adult female person.
3. a female attendant to a lady rank.
4. a wife.
5. the nature, characteristics, or feelings often attributed to women; womanliness
6. a sweetheart or paramour; mistress.
7. a female employer or representative.

So these are the definitions and all I can say is "What!", this doesn't help at all. I've met different type of "women" in  my life. From students, single mothers, married, hard workers, have successful careers, in between jobs, sensitive, strong, wear makeup, hate makeup, shave and don't shave, etc. Doesn't matter if they have "girly traits" or not to me these are all women, all different ethnicities, sizes, lifestyles. But the one thing that we all have in common and go through is the female gender stereotypes. Once we were born the majority of us were given pink clothing, flowers, butterflies, and hearts surrounded us like we were suppose to have a certain perception of the world and what to like, had to have nice long hair, and seen as the most vulnerable gender. I personally dislike the color pink and luckily grew up in a household where my parents let me like anything if I wanted a video game, ball, nerf gun or a barbie, frilly dress, or cute plush toys I was welcome to have them. My parents might of rejected me certain things just cause sometimes I asked for too much but never because it was ment to be for a boy. So since this topic about women was of big interest to me in class I decided to search up gender issues and found a video that really made me say "WTF!"

check it out:

What is your view on this video? What did it make you feel? I'm just like wow Veet, really? So having hair is a guy thing? Why do we all grow hair then? If women weren't ment to have hair why does it naturally grow on us then. So we can just shave it off every time it starts to become stubble? i mean don't get me wrong? I can take a joke but sometimes jokes can go far although this one isn't too bad there's really that go out of line and sometimes interfere with the men's perspective and expectation on women. Gender issues go both ways both men, women and whatever else is considered a gender (hopefully that doesn't sound offensive) has it's certain perception to the majority of the world. the perfect world would be to just accept people for who they are and what they choose to do and be but as you get older and older and learn about all these issues it gets harder to really understand why it's not that easy.