Miss Pseudo read the newspaper more than she used to see it. Today she decided to SEE it more, following some hunch, just after she had read something more on gender equality.
Gender equality is a in-thing today being actively propagated by the de-facto powers-that-be like media--of the paid-news fame, primarily. And people across the gender divide are made to believe this dominant version, left, right and center. Let all have their own versions to uphold the spirit of same freedom and equality that is propagated. What does this gender equality strive for? What has it achieved so far? Who are its proponents? Is it a fight against history and for a new pre-designed future? (don't look for answers in this blog)
Pseudo thinks that since all this clamour for gender-equality and feminism (in its many many versions) started, all it has done is push one particular version of lifestyle for men and women equally across the globe, irrespective of the original culture and genre de vie (lifestyle). People and societies who have accepted it willingly, without question have been hailed as progressive.
Now coming back to "SEEING" the newspaper, Pseudo did an experiment. An interesting one. She counted the number of pictures of women and men in the newspaper for a week. Then she counted the pictures that were 'revealing' or 'provocative' or 'suggestive'!! She found that almost 60 % - 90 % of female pictures fell in this category, printed regularly, and thus 'gender equality' was 'upheld' and 'promoted'. The feminists felt happy that woman's body was her's and she had every right to use it and flaunt it the way she wanted to. The men were happy that they had been successful in their scheme of convincing womenfolk to bare all, without any strings attached, unlike before when women were very conservative in matters considered profane.
And Pseudo also found that the men had won in commodifying and 'robotifying' women as seen in most of the advertisements, endorsements and entertainment. To give the same "gender equality" a chance in the work field whole lot of 'femalish' jobs were created which are mostly brainless and monotonous in any organisation. Thus reality remains where we started.
However it was not all futile. All this gung-ho has given the chance to a few to have their 2-minutes of fame shouting slogans somewhere or debating somewhere on this non-issue. The old order has to change from time to time and it has to give way to the new one. True.
Now coming back to "SEEING" the newspaper, Pseudo did an experiment. An interesting one. She counted the number of pictures of women and men in the newspaper for a week. Then she counted the pictures that were 'revealing' or 'provocative' or 'suggestive'!! She found that almost 60 % - 90 % of female pictures fell in this category, printed regularly, and thus 'gender equality' was 'upheld' and 'promoted'. The feminists felt happy that woman's body was her's and she had every right to use it and flaunt it the way she wanted to. The men were happy that they had been successful in their scheme of convincing womenfolk to bare all, without any strings attached, unlike before when women were very conservative in matters considered profane.
And Pseudo also found that the men had won in commodifying and 'robotifying' women as seen in most of the advertisements, endorsements and entertainment. To give the same "gender equality" a chance in the work field whole lot of 'femalish' jobs were created which are mostly brainless and monotonous in any organisation. Thus reality remains where we started.
However it was not all futile. All this gung-ho has given the chance to a few to have their 2-minutes of fame shouting slogans somewhere or debating somewhere on this non-issue. The old order has to change from time to time and it has to give way to the new one. True.
Pseudo concludes that the new is not always different from the old, in reality, though it may be packaged differently. She also noted that men will always rule either by beastly force or by dirty scheming wherein the prey will be made to believe that she is exercising her free will while happily walking into the beast's lair.
