I just came across this video and it had me literally in tears…..yes! we all know sexism is prevalent, yes! we all know the name-calling, outright abuse, and harassment that women that are trying to change the status quo live with, but are we being blind to what the media is doing to us? The video I am talking about is posted at http://womensmediacenter.com/sexism_sells.html. Please spend some minutes watching it and forwarding it to your female friends and family and definitely sign the petition on the site.
Although a lot of the content on the video is of political nature and of "Hillary-nature", don’t let that put you off if you are not a Hillary-follower. This is not about her, and this is not about political parties. This is about the permission the media feels it has to bash women.
When a man stood up in front of Hillary in the campaign trail, with a sign saying "Iron my shirt". Where was the uproar? where was the media? but more important… where we we? as a gender we need to work together to not only highlight situations like this, but also to work on changing the fact that "it is OK" to do that. What if someone had stood up in from of Obama to say "Park my car" or "wash my dishes". What do you thing would have happened? maybe that is why black men were able to vote 50 years sooner than women were. We have a big lesson to learn from the underrepresented group of African Americans. They have been able to work together to institute change while we women sit on the sidelines maybe even possibly crying foul, but then moving on to something else that gets our attention. So how long until we start fully working together? how long before we stop buying the messages the media gives us?
I say "yesterday was late"!! get involved!! get involved with the community and with the organizations that are working on behalf of all women!!! fight for what is right and learn to stick together as a gender. My friend Eme with lots of wisdom recently told me… "There is only one area in which women are inferior to men, and that is in their ability to play together and to work together". So, I say it is time we stop buying it!!! it is time to come together and continue changing the world, even if as one of the men on the video say… "I close my legs when I see Hillary". Let them all close their legs when they see we are a power to be reckoned with.
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