15. Marked "Men"

In this semester, we have discussed the gender issue and told that women are marked, just because they are "women". Sexual harassment, the pressure of the desire of being beautiful, being under the dominance of men, are a few things almost all women live. But I want to say that, men are sometimes also marked. This reminded me of an incident I lived last year.

It was the second month after I got my driving license. I had an accident and hit to a taxi and it was completely my fault. I apologized to the taxi driver for many times and we called the police. When the police came, they shouted at the taxi driver, and acted like it was all his fault. It was obvious that he did not do anything, but they were very kind to me and absolutely rude to the man.

Another example to this kind of situation is that men are not allowed to go to a nightclub without the company of a woman. Of course the amount of men and women are important in a nightclub, but it is obvious that 10 women can go to any club, while 2 men can definetely not. Last week, we were 2 females+3 males, and they did not let us in. It is like they say to us: "We know that this +1 boy will get in and attack all the ladies in our club, because he is a man" It is like men always harass women unless there is a controller woman with them.

14. The Naked Truth

When we look at the advertisements which take place on the tv, billboards and magazines, we see that there is a general concept, nudity. It is obvious that "sex sells", but there are naked people almost in every advertisement, even the product has no connection with nudity. For example, if this is an underwear advert, it is very natural the models to be naked, but I cannot understand why there is a naked man in a vodka advertisement.

I am not criticising it, if I were in advertising business, I would also use the most advantageous way but I just cannot understand why it is so effective on the audience.

For example, there is a campaign in Australia which aims to protect the lambs and create an awareness. They say that sheeps suffer during their transportation and they get killed wildly and in a very painful way and they ask for people's support. This is a very beneficial campaign for animal rights but I cannot understand again, why there is a naked woman next to the sheep, on the poster of campaign.

13. The Full Monty Presentation

Last week we have watched the presentation of the second group; "The Full Monty". I saw the disadvantage of being the first group as my group is. I think showing the last scene of the movie was a very creative idea and I thought why couldn't I think that before my presentation :). I enjoyed the presentation although I had not seen the movie, because the group members were very enjoyable and friendly.

I decided to watch the movie after the class, becuse the topic has also attracted my attention. As I watched the films and read the texts about gender, I had thought that "beauty" is not important only for women, also for men. The film showed me that there are also men, who care about their appearence as much as women and it is not only women who make money by using it.