Lately I have been wearing my gender role lens to search for a topic for my blog. I found some interesting articles and t.v. shows. However the magazines and Oprah show struck my mind about how low women gender roles are. Many teen girls look through magazines such as Seventeen and Cosmo to pass time. However, has anyone really scanned the content in those magazines? Some of those articles are just criticizing girls alone. The article I read titled "20 Things a Guy Looks for in Girls." It was all about "you can't be to skinny but you can't have some rolls," how you need to be "flawless" and "that blond is the way to go". Those were the top things a girl must have to get the perfect guy. This is sort of like a Perfect Barbie scenario. Where if the girl is blond, beach tan, and has a curvy body; they will have a man such as Chace Crawford. This is just wrong. A girl shouldn't be judged on how she looks. So why write an article about?
Now put your gender role lens on and lets take a double look at this article. When you look upon this article with those glasses, it screams patriarchal society at me. Saying that women need to be a Barbie just to get a man. Now a days, men just need to flex a muscle and girls are all over them. It's crazy! This is criticizing how much work women put in just to get a guy that will possibly screw them over. When they can be their selves and I am quite sure get a loyal boy in their life.
Another scenario is when I was watching Oprah today. She was interviewing nuns and questioning them about their lives. She came upon the question "So are you a virgin and how does this affect your love life?" Well the nuns said for most part their boyfriends' were very supportive. However when you take this back to the article, I am sure no man would want to date a women who shows no skin or is "married" to Jesus. It shows how women in gender roles are based upon just looks. If you think about Megan Fox, guys basically only want her for her body and luscious lips. I'm sure, her being the hottest girl in American doesn't help either. This to me is insane. To know that girls' gender roles are lower then male gender roles makes me think; what is it that girls do to make themselves much lower than males? The answer is being needy. If a woman didn't have the need for a guys' attention then she wouldn't be trying as hard as she is to look good and attempt to be flawless.
