Unit C Blog #19

When Geena Davis is speaking about the movie Thelma and Louise she really hits the nail on the head about how women are viewed in the media in this country and the kind of impact that these media devices have on the viewers and others within the United States. She talks about how people were surprised to see that their was a movie involving women with guns and that this took the nation, especially the men, by storm. People were writing news articles about this movie saying that it was bad and unnatural for women to be going about entangled in violence and murder suicides. This shows such a steep gap in gendered assumptions as our media shows non stop clips of hyper masculine men with gigantic muscles pulling the triggers on automatic guns and putting an end to entire groups of "bad" men. This type of mentality towards women and dealing with violence does some justice to Britton's case study on prisons and how men feel that women do not belong in the workplace because the men feel that the women will not be able to appropriately handle the violence aspect of a job like a prison guard. Britton suggested that prior to beginning your career path in this industry that the officers be subject to gendered training which would lead to a more humble environment. I believe that Britton has a point because many men come what seems like preset with ideals about what men should be doing as well as what women should be doing and most of this can be attributed to the medias roles in creating roles, essentially, and forcing them to be reflected on in our society. Geena Davis is right when she speaks of her movies and the media and the way that the dominate group, white men, seemed to take sort of a backlash out against the type of media that portrayed women in this way which is just biased to begin with.