Are women giving up?

Question

As I look at the world today it depresses me. Things aren't the way they were 20 years ago, its getting worse. An example would be... take a look at a music video from the 50's or 60's and compare them to todays music videos... do you see a problem with this? It really makes me sad to see 18 year old girls working at strip clubs and sleeping with all these guys. How can they let men disrespect them like this? I feel as though men are overpowering women more and more, and it's just getting worse. Some women just don't even care anymore, they've given up, so they just go back to the stereotypical views of society instead of sticking with their own morals.
How has society become this way?

Answer 1

I totally agree with you. I think women have taken a huge hit with the porn industry in the internet. But look at it like this. The guys now are total P*ssies. All they are good for is sex. they used to be protective toward women and children now all they think about is their m*mber and they think its cool, instead they are just pathetic and in relationships some of them are really high maintenance. It seems to me that guys are always playing off of womens emotions. We FEEL something, they work from that. Kind of a lazy, vampirish way to go through life. If we will strip for money, they will pay. They dont see it as bad for women. they see it as somethign we do. They dont see the girl who goes home after to two kids and has nowhere else to go or someone who was a runaaway. They dont see peoples real feelings. they just see what they can use from women.

Answer 2

First of all, a woman has to respect herself before she can command the respect of any one else. Sexuality is a marketable commodity, and sensuality a skill many women have not developed. People, both men and women, want to have their needs served, and will use what resources they have at hand to acquire that. Have women given up, no, I don't think so. We have progressed in so many ways in the last 100 years. Sometimes not very gracefully, but our daughters are better off for our accomplishments, as are our sons. Our society is a reflection of our combined values and ethics, and there are portions and examples of it that are very sad, but there also are parts and portions that are exemplary. Focus on the good!

Answer 3

The women who haven't given up are probably 75% of young women but they are not as visible as the one's who are out there, causing your despair. The new generation of schoolgirls are aware of all this garbage, and can see there is no future for anybody in it.

It depressed the feminists in the 70s and 80s as pornography spread so fast - nothing we did could have stopped it. Like all excesses, it either escallates or it implodes. We should take comfort from the present young educated women who are ambitious, intelligent and focussed. I watch them, and my hopes for the future are pinned on their common sense, and their influence on the next generation.

Answer 4

Is there a question in there somewhere? Women should vote for the person that you think is good for the United States as a whole, not just women - no matter who you think that may be.

Answer 5

Are you suggesting that, 20 years ago, 18 year olds did not work in strip clubs?

I hate to break it to you, but strip clubs, gentleman's clubs, and exotic dancing are not a recent innovation. I have seen ENGRAVINGS advertising exotic dancers from the 1900's. I have seen sepia adverts of 'the banana dance' from the early 20th century. You know what IS a recent innovation? Age restrictions, wages, and benefits for strippers.

Are you further suggesting that, if a woman is stripping, then she must be ******* the customers too?

Look, if you want to see empowered women stop watching the damned E! network and MTV and worrying about the imaginary lives of strippers.

Go read about the activism taking place right now in your state, in your very city. The shelters, up at the college and universities, NOW, Planned Parenthood, Care2action: It is there, and you have only yourself to blame for not knowing about it.

Answer 6

I don't have a problem with strippers: after all, they've always existed and if it cn help some girls to pay their studies, or if some girls are not bright enough to study...

But I agree with you on the way women are depicted on some videos. Women agree to do it, by the way, ans quite a few women reproduce this stereotype in real life. Some feminists will say that they are "empowered" and are not ashamed of their body... I just think they are missing the point about feminism, and you don't need to look slutty to like your body. It's irrelevant.

As many people have said, sex sells. Simple as that. But look at any woman's magazine: they also give plenty of crappy advice, and those magazines are usually run by women (I think...). It's just about money, nowadays.

As someone pointed out, though, you also get the other extreme: people who are extremely prudish (think hard-core Christians). It's not much better.

However, I thimk there are quite a few people in the middle, but we just don't hear about them. I'm a bit more worried about the next generation, though, those who are teenagers and younger. It seems that they are more and more sexualized... Hopefully they'll get over it by the time they are in their mid-20s. Well, we'll see... But it DOES worry me a little bit.

Answer 7

I think the strip club job has actually taken on sort of a new look, so to speak. I do not condone stripping or working in the sex industry, but I do think it is empowering for some women. For a small amount of time, a woman has to merely dance and she gets money litterally thrown at her. 40 hours of work for one man equals one night of pay for her.

Answer 8

I know how you feel, our female role models are lapdancing on MTV and it scares me how our next generation will turn out.
I think society is to blame rather than men, I'm sure lots of men would be horrified to see their daughter working in the sex industry or just generally being loose with her morals. We need to make a personal stand, identify that we are not comfortable with this, tell our sons and daughters that this is not the way to a happy life and do all we can (if anything) to censor this kind of material from more vunrable members of society.

The Pussy Cat Dolls 'Buttons' won sexiet video recently and it made me sad that lapdancing in little clothes looking undernourished and unhappy is the only way for young girls to earn money and have a career, we all know there are women of worth out there and the very fact that you asked this question shows there are many people who are disturbed by this and many of us feel the way you do.

"Only when manhood is dead, and it will parish when ravished femininity no longer sustains it, only then will we know what it is to be free"

I think women like you take the first steps towards condemning the way women are treated by our media and to making a real difference for many women out there, thank you.

Answer 9

Individualism definition: A doctrine holding that the interests of the individual should take precedence over the interests of the state or social group(family/community).

Selfish definition: concerned only with one's personal welfare(individual), with total disregard to that of others(social group).

Answer 10

You're only looking at the bad part of women in society. You think they're giving up so you limit yourself and see only the examples of women being patronized, working as strippers, being slutty in music videos.

Yet you seem to forget how many women judges, women doctors, golfers, even Nascar drivers that are here today. Did you forget we even have a woman running for President?

Sounds like you're making it appear to yourself that women are regressing to stereotypical views. Cup's half full, kid.