Wrestling With Cops

After our classes about WWE wrestling and how they perpetrated certain ideals of masculinity and femininity on young viewers and practically brain-washed people with the idea that men are aggressive and in power and if you're not then you are not a man. I continued to think about why people would want to watch something like that on TV.

By coincidence I came across the show COPS in which I witnessed a male officers shouting, screaming, putting down and subduing various criminals.

Well these are two different scenarios right? Fake wrestling versus actual law enforcing heroes who put an end to no good doing bad guys. Well, yeah but why do we need to watch them do that. Why do we want to watch police officers (because there are some female officers featured on the show) over power criminals verbally and physically.

Is it because they deserved it? Maybe, they were after all breaking the law.

Maybe the same sense of power and control that made wrestling so popular is making shows like COPS just as entertaining.

The show has been criticized in the past for its inclusion of mostly poor-lower-end crimes as opposed to white-collar crimes which would be perpetrated by people of higher economic statuses.

When questioned about it by Michael Moore, a far-left documentary film maker, in the film Bowling For Columbine which took a look at violence and its affect on younger minds such as the boys who committed the high school massacre at Columbine High School.

The former associate producer, Richard Herlan, basically said he doesn't know how to make a good show without violence. Or rather won't try. It wasn't an issue to him that minorities might be misrepresented. Nor was it an issue as to why viewers love violence so much, it's more money after all.

Maybe people actually won't watch a show about fixing the problem in society that cause crime. Maybe they will find way to add explosions and climatic moments to teach in more educational shows.
Or maybe we'll just watch police brutality and feel like we're fixing the world from our couches.

They Were Asking For It

GoAlybongo's emotional video high lights how both men and women 

can blame women who receive abuse. Rape culture as its grown to be known

is the idea that for some reason the victims of rape are at fault usually because

of what they are wearing or where they are and what they are doing.

in reality the only reason rape happens is because of rapists. 

Men and children can also be raped, are we to assume they were also asking for it?

Society continues to teach women not to be raped when they should teach:

 Don't Rape

Same Sex Something Else

In a recent conversation I had with a friend the hot topic of Gay Marriage came into the conversation when I mentioned my gay Human Sexuality teacher being against gay marriage. My undisclosed friend supported my professors' statement and later went on to add that same sex marriage should have a different name.

I blatantly objected. His point, coming from a straight-white-male-Christian-middle class family was that gays should claim their commitment to each other under a different title. Although not actually being against homosexuality his statement does imply homophobia in some degree.

I believe my friend fails to see that if same sex marriages were to be called something other than marriage then they would not be treated the same as marriage. You might assume this is a slippery slope fallacy because I have no reason to believe it wouldn't be treated the same except for the fact that separate but equal does not work under any circumstances.

Are we really to believe that a same sex marriage not called marriage would receive the same civil benefits straight marriages do once law makers begin working their way around the new word. All tax, healthy insurance, and spouse privileges would undoubtedly be skewed against them in the eyes of the law.

 this links to a website on gender discrimination