The Avenging Emma Peel Manifesto

Women (in the Western world) have never had more opportunities to do whatever they want to do, whenever they want to do it. They can wear the clothes they want, they can go to schools formerly reserved for men, they can enter fields formerly reserved for men - they can do anything they want.

And yet statistics show that a lot of women don't take advantage of their opportunities. They are oontent to spend their days obsessing over their looks, and over boys, and over finding someone to take care of them (rather than they looking after themselves - as adults).

Is this just because it's "the way women are," or is it because, for all our newfound freedoms, all our role models showing us it is possible to be the best we can be, there are insidious forces at work keeping us in the same old rut?

And what are those forces? Mass media advertisements. From the day a boy and a girl first learn how to recognize objects, what do they see? Boys and men ogling the opposite sex, as eye candy. Girls obsessing over their looks - six year olds who can't go to school without getting up an hour early to put their makeup on so they can appeal to those little boys!

Boys get the fun toys in the toy commercials, girls get the dolls, the makeup, the crap.

Girls and boys are still indoctrinated with a certain mindset - that girls are put on the planet to serve boys's needs. That it's perfectly okay for a boy to watch a total stranger walk by, and feel perfectly fine to comment on her bodily shape. Girls are expected to walk around in really short, short shorts (they've done so for decades.) Funny...put a boy or man in those short, short shorts and you know there's only one thing he's looking for.

In any event, this blog, therefore, will, for the most part, cover the way women are depicted in media. The good, the bad and the ugly of today's world and the place of women in it... I share it all here.

At the beginning of my post, I said this:

Women (in the Western world) have never had more opportunities to do whatever they want to do,

I deliberately emphasized "the Western world" because, sadly, our sisters in the "Eastern world" or more accurately, Muslim countries - at least those under Sharia law rather than secular law - are being beaten down every day. We can help Muslim women...we must help them. (I say this from the standpoint of an atheist who can't understand why people follow any religion, but for women the Muslim religion is particularly insidious... men can't help looking at women so instead of the guy's wearing blinders all the time, it's the women who have to wear burkhas and crap? Bah.)