I realize that there has been at least 20 posts about the article that was in the last edition of The Standard titled, “The Girl Problem”. It’s been a few weeks since our class meeting where a panel sat in front of the entire high school and discussed some of the issues that they had with statements made in the article. Ever since then it is still a classroom, lunch table and after school topic.
Today, when someone called a male out for objectifying women, he took back his comment and immediately regretted it. It then made me realize that people don’t even realize that they are doing it, which may be a point that everyone realized already. It just took a real life example for me to realize it. How do we keep people from thinking things like this? And are we going to have to constantly remind people that the comments they make are not okay? I do realize however that it is not just boys that objectify women but also women that objectify eachother. Its something we need to work on as a group, but I think that once people become more aware we will begin to see a change in the way men view women.
Today, when someone called a male out for objectifying women, he took back his comment and immediately regretted it. It then made me realize that people don’t even realize that they are doing it, which may be a point that everyone realized already. It just took a real life example for me to realize it. How do we keep people from thinking things like this? And are we going to have to constantly remind people that the comments they make are not okay? I do realize however that it is not just boys that objectify women but also women that objectify eachother. Its something we need to work on as a group, but I think that once people become more aware we will begin to see a change in the way men view women.
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