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Vintage Drummond Sweaters Ad: Women Are Such a Drag - Sociological Images

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The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota

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Once upon a time, a group of individuals saw another group of individuals propagating a stupid idea. The stupid idea was that women are inherently less valuable than men, and so the first group of individuals sought to fight against it. They called themselves "Feminists" and their message was that women are just as valuable as men. Naturally, they wanted to spread this message, and any group of people that exist to support the idea that women are just as much made in the imago dei as men are completely in the right and should be supported.

But that wasn't really what the feminists wanted, and feminism as we know it today is a monolith. A medusa, you could say, with lots of big, scary snake heads with different goals and ideas that you don't want to look directly in to lest you lose your day arguing with one of them about whether or not a pregnant woman could possibly have no idea how she got in to such a state and shouldn't be forced to incubate that which she willfully brought in to existence (three glasses of wine deep or not). Which head, exactly, do we want to address? If you know me, you know I would say we should go for the jugular, which is the absurdity that is laid out before us in Romans 1-namely, Creator denial.

Unfortunately, the message of first wave feminists was not, "Both genders are equal and made in the imago dei", although some, originally, may have asserted such a thing. No, the first wave of feminists were more concerned with contractual matters, such as voting and property rights. You could say they wanted to be a part of the "boys club". How politics viewed them was much more important than how God viewed them, which means they cut themselves off at the knees. If your value and worth is not first generated from your Creator, you've got no legs to stand on, and so we see throughout history a movement that has lumbered on its knees to where it is today, and it has done so as gracefully as the blood-sucking, murderous zombie it has become. You see, feminism has never embraced that women-as women-are just as valuable as men, because feminism doesn't even understand what women are. Feminism, the liberal monolithic sort, has sought to make us like men, denying the God-given differences between the two genders, and therefore reduced itself to absurdity. Just take a look at what feminists think an "empowered" woman is. What image do you conjure in your head? We laugh, but doesn't it include pantsuits? Garish images of women dressed as men, flexing, taking on the world, dropping their children off at daycare so they can do real work? Feminists look at the woman who can kill her child in the womb and applaud, because they want no-fault sex to be a thing. Because in a feminist worldview, children are just consequences and we should be free to choose just how accountable we are for our actions. The men can have sex and not become pregnant, so women should be able to as well.

This is what feminists actually get right: if there is no Creator, our value as women is generated from something within us, so then we make the rules. Whatever we say, goes. Certainly in a world that is determined by our own rules, not much can be said for the little women held within our wombs. In a worldview where we are all just here via Neo-darwinian evolution, might makes right, and in a godless battle of desire between who gets what they want between a grown woman and the unborn child inside of her, the larger of the two is going to win. When you reduce yourself to such absurdity, when you make yourself the ultimate authority in your own universe, you can argue that a mother's desire for a child determines the child's value and worth.

But friends, no matter how darkened the hearts of those who set themselves up as gods in their universe may be, no one actually lives like this. No one actually, in their heart of hearts, believes this. Eternity is stamped upon all of us because we all are made in the image of God. How many women today live in the lie that their value and worth is determined by others? Have you ever looked in to the eyes of a woman who has looked to another person for her worth and seen the destruction that has been hers? Do you see the anger and the hurt and the general foot stampyness of the women who look to politics, corporate domination, or whatever other man-made institution, to tell them they are worth something? Do they look happy to you?

Second wave feminism, the kind seen in the Sexual Revolution of the 60s, tried to give us a world with no-fault sex, and one of the things we got was a holocaust in the womb of such enormity we cannot even wrap our minds around the untold numbers of dead bodies it has left in its wake. Feminism has not been some nice, quaint idea that we can pat on the head and send on its way after throwing it a bone. This is why we cannot engage Medusa on her own territory. The progenitor of abortion was second wave feminism. The progenitor of second wave feminism was secular humanism. Secular humanism is a result of Creator-denial. All of this to say, we can only win this argument when we trace the disaster in front of us back to its origins and we must engage feminism on the basis of the one man who ever truly lived with no fault, and that is the God-man, Christ. Without Him, there are no rules to play by. There isn't even a reason to play. Don't forget this when you engage with the world. It is a good and valuable thing to engage with them on the issues, but there is no meaningful truth to point them to devoid of Christ. Their worldview is broken. They are their own gods. You cannot fight if you cut yourself off at the knees. Tell them about the one, true God. The one place they can actually derive inherent value and worth. Give them the Gospel, because it is what they really need.

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Once upon a time, a group of individuals saw another group of individuals propagating a stupid idea. The stupid idea was that women are inherently less valuable than men, and so the first group of individuals sought to fight against it. They called themselves "Feminists"

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Mad Men Art: The 1891-1970 Vintage Advertisement Art Collection

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Warners Little Fibber Bra No Shape For Girl 1960s

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Warners Little Fibber Bra No Shape For Girl 1960s - Mad Men Art: The 1891-1970 Vintage Advertisement Art Collection

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The advertisement I choose to write on is one for a new kind of Ketchup bottle, it was made probably in the early to mid-1900's. It depicts a picture of a women opening up the ketchup bottle. The slogan is the most disturbing part stating; "You mean a women can open it...?"

Though this advertisement was created awhile back it still is relevant in today's society. Women are often put down to be not as strong, not as smart as the male's in society. The term dumb blonde, people use all too often to describe female's so called lack of intelligence. Movies such as Legally Blonde depict how women's intelligence can be over seen for a pretty face. The stereotype for girls if your pretty you cannot be intelligent to, or that women are not as smart as their male counter parts is something that while in grade school was seen a lot.

Male athletics started receiving a lot more aid because they were the big ticket sellers until Title XI was put into place and enforced more strictly. Title XI called for the equal treatment among both girls and boys sports at the high school level. I was a sophomore in high school when this started to take place the following year each of the sports I was involved in received new uniforms after years of overuse of the old uniforms. They also replaced fixtures such as the fence in the outfield of my softball field that had long needed replacement. Simple fixes like this had been needed for so long and it took a ruling to get them done and in place because people still lived by the stereotype based in gender differences.

In the early 1900's women's role in society was seen to stay at home and take care of the children. They were not supposed to be educated or go to work that was the men's job. Gender roles have changed over time. 1848 was the first ever Women's rights Convention held in Seneca, New York. Since then we have we have had the American and National Women's Suffrage Associations which held conventions in which powerful women such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton have spoken at. We have come a long way including in 1920 when it was amended to the Constitution women's right to vote. ( http://www.infoplease.com/spot/womenstimeline1.html) During that time period there were flappers in which women dressed more provocatively and danced. By the 1950's women were working in the workforce as men went overseas to fight for our country. To today were women have the right and responsibility to get educated and work and provide for their families it is no longer that women have to stay at home it is there option and decision to do so. Women instead of having to fill the gender role that they have to stay at home and raise the children can leave their kids off at daycare and go to work.

Gender roles have changed a lot. Though the stereotypes such as dumb blonde still prevail as a way of bringing down women's intelligent level, women do have a lot more options. Some men find it harder to work under a female boss sometimes because of this stereotype.

In an article written by CNN, it discusses how "women are better educated, more ambitious and arguably more successful than men." Back in 1970, 60% of men were earning college degrees and that number has dramatically fallen, buy 2006 the number had decreased to 43%. In today's society women now beat men in almost three to two in earning a college degree, earning them an increase of 44% in real dollars from 1970 to 2006 as compared to the men's shocking 6%. Along with all these numbers CNN also conducted that Men are more distant from their families as compared to early generations. There are more and more separated and extended families in today's generation than ever before. Could this have anything to do with the change in gender roles?

CNN also noted that more men age 18-34 spend more time playing video games then the 12-17 year old age group that society most notably accepts. There are more movies of how men refuse to grow up and take the responsibility of the previous gender roles given to men, of taking care of their families and working for a living. ( http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/04/opinion/bennett-men-in-trouble/index.html)

So maybe it is men that are having a hard time opening up the ketchup bottle. With the current statistics and gender roles in today's society, it seems that women are deciding to take control of their lives and get educated and get well-paying jobs, and not allow social stigma's such as dumb blonde interfere with their dreams and goals. It seems that women in fact are the one's deciding to better themselves and make decisions and actions towards doing so, while men sit on the couch playing video games making no progress and not taking responsibility for their actions. So if that advertisement was made today, do you think that a male would be in it and the caption could be "You mean a man can open it...?" Probably not but with how gender roles are changing it sure seems plausible.

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The advertisement I choose to write on is one for a new kind of Ketchup bottle, it was made probably in the early to mid-1900's. It depicts a picture of a women opening up the ketchup bottle. The slogan is the most disturbing part stating; "You mean a women can open it...?"

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SCHAGEN - De gemeente Schagen voert geen beleid voor genderneutraliteit, maar heeft wel een genderneutraal toilet.

Volgens de NOS overwegen tientallen gemeenten 'genderneutraal' te worden. Een klein deel past nu al het beleid aan door genderneutrale toiletten te plaatsen of voor formulieren niet te vragen naar het geslacht.

Gemeentewoordvoerder Natasja Verhoeven: "We hebben wel een genderneutraal toilet, maar spreken mensen niet genderneutraal aan. Daarnaast vragen wij op invulformulieren geen geslacht als dat niet strikt noodzakelijk is."

Verhoeven benadrukt dat de gemeente deze maatschappelijke discussie op de voet zal blijven volgen en als dat in de toekomst noodzakelijk is verdere stappen te ondernemen.

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SCHAGEN - De gemeente Schagen voert geen beleid voor genderneutraliteit, maar heeft wel een genderneutraal toilet. Volgens de NOS overwegen tientallen gemeenten 'genderneutraal' te worden. Een klein deel past nu al het beleid aan door genderneutrale toiletten te plaatsen of voor formulieren niet t…