Blog #10 The End

Raunch Culture refers to the sexual culture of the 20th century in which sexually explicit language and themes in the performing arts, as well as sexually provocative clothing and expression are openly celebrated (Wikipedia.) A good source for raunchy culture are magazines like Playboy and Maxim where women pose in outfits that are barely covering their skin and in Playboy, women pose naked. Men and women are posing in ads that really degrade men and women all because sex sells and sometimes the sexual environment of the ads have nothing to do with what the ad is selling. TV commercials are becoming raunchy as well and children are beginning to see these ads which leads them to want to be in those ads and they start this vicious cycle of this ideal body image. The media seems to be a source of a lot our problems with body image and I wish that companies would just start using positive images. Parents needs to start stepping up to the plate and having a say because kids are seeing these raunchy ads no matter how hard we want to deny it. Children are beginning to learn what sex is at extremely young ages and the raunch culture isn't helping. I could go on and on about how negative the raunch culture is, but there can be some positives. For example, women never used to have the freedom to decide whether or not they wanted to have a choice to do these ads and the raunch culture can show how far women have come. I suppose you could look at the raunch culture as some form of celebration of women and that we have the power of sexual desire. There are women that pose in Playboy who are successful and it can provide a better living for some women who had nothing to begin with and it provides jobs. To be "like a man" to me means that men need to be masculine and to provide for the women. To be like a man is to go to football games and drink beers and watch sports all the time. To be "like a woman" to me means that women need to be comforting and kind and need to be the child bearers. To be like a women is to go shopping and gossip with your closest friends and to keep the house clean and be a good mom and wife. There is such a thing to be like a man or woman because it's prevalent in our society because it's the gender roles. I think that women inherit traits to be feminine and be more innocent like and to communicate better while men have the trait to be aggressive and strong and to not be the greatest communicators.