Dumb Blonde

While searching through some funny commercials on YouTube.com, I came across one that not only made me laugh, but intrigued me. It was a commercial made by Mercedes Benz and was of a blonde woman in a library who goes up to the librarian behind the counter, a brunette, and quite loudly says, "I'd like french fries, a burger, and a milk shake." The librarian gives her a funny look and tells her she's in a library. Therefore, the blonde whispers to the librarian, "I'd like french fries, a burger, and a milk shake." Of course at this I laugh because blonde females have always been stereotyped as being dumb or stupid. The commercial then goes into saying that beauty is nothing without brains. As I mentioned, this stereotype has been around for as long as I can remember, how blonde females are dumb. Thinking further into it though, I realized that this stereotype has never been directed towards the male gender. In all actuality, both males and females can have blonde hair, so it isn't necessarily the blondeness of the hair that the joke is being made about, in fact, it's the gender of the person that the hair is coming from. So if it is a female that the hair is coming from that is being joked on, then it's the female gender in general that is being called stupid or dumb. I'd be willing to bet that never once would you hear a dumb blonde joke made about a male. For many, this isn't something that would be thought about and if anyone mentioned it they'd simply say it's just a joke and put it out of their minds. But it's hard to believe after all of this time, the female is still being joked on for not being intelligent, when in fact the women of our world are just as intelligent as the men.

Cooking is For Girls

While falling asleep one night I had the television on MTV where a show I watch often was on, Run's House. At the beginning of this episode, they showed youngest brothers, Russy and Diggy in one of their bedrooms. Diggy was laying on the bed while Russy was standing up playing a Wii cooking game. Diggy asked Russy why he was playing this game and Russy simply replied, "...because it's fun. I like cooking." Diggy's response to this was, "Cooking is for girls." The fact that these are kids who not even teenagers yet and are saying something like this amazed me. This shows that our society has continued to gives generations the message that the woman is the one who should be stuck in the kitchen cooking and cleaning. This needs to be changed so this message doesn't continue to go through the generations. To this day there are nearly just as many men in the kitchen cooking as there are women.

I Watch the Superbowl for the Commercials...

On February 1st, millions turned their televisions on the the NFL championship game, the Steelers versus the Cardinals. While this was a great game with a great outcome, many watched for the entertainment of the comical commercials that the Superbowl is known for. One of the commercials that came on during a break from the game was an ad for the new Pepsi Max. This commercial was full of males, doing "manly" things like working out in the garage, playing golf, bowling, and fixing electrical things around the house. There was not a woman to be found throughout the commercial. While these men were doing their "manly" things, not so great things were happening, including getting hit pretty hard by a piece of wood, getting hit with a golf club, a bowling ball falling on a guys head, and a guy getting shocked and through across his yard. After every incident the man said "I'm okay!" Towards the end of the commercial, a narrator comes on and says something along the lines of "Men can handle anything, except the taste of a diet cola..." First of all, who' s to say a woman can't handle anything? And second of all, who's to say all women can handle a diet cola? Personally, I'm a woman and I can't stand diet cola. At the end of the commercial, the narrator says "Pepsi Max, the first diet cola for men." And third, who's to say a woman wouldn't like Pepsi Max? This is very stereotypical in saying that only women drink diet colas when in fact many men drink them as well. Why does a diet drink have to be a "girly" drink? Perhaps Pepsi is pointing out in this commercial that it is the female who is more considerate of her body and doesn't want to fill it with pointless calories from a regular cola. Also, in this commercial, I don't like at all how they are saying that men are stronger than women and they can handle so much more than women can, women can handle just as much as men can.

...only if you sleep with me

So it's Monday night, 9PM and I'm doing what I'm always doing at that time on those nights. Turning on the TV to watch my all time favorite show, One Tree Hill. Entirely too much happens in this show to even try to catch anyone who doesn't watch the show up on what's happening, but just to make it clear, a male character in the show has written a book and now has the opportunity to turn the book into a movie. With the book and movie being about his life, he is very particular about how the movie is going to be produced and who will be playing each character. As hard as it is to make a perfect movie, it doesn't help that the guy who was hired to direct this movie is a total jerk. This past weeks episode showed the casting for the movie and this episode made me absolutely hate the director of the movie. When casting the roles for the women characters in the movie, he showed high favoritism to the more attractive women with larger chests. Joking around seeing the author of the book upset about how the casting was going, the director gave him some fake advice. He told him to close his eyes and just listen to the women who were trying out for this part. Even know the director was only joking when he said to do this, he did it anyways. When the actress first began explaining who she thought this character was, he thought he had found the perfect girl. But then she said something that made him quite upset and not want to hire her at all. At the end she said "...and I'll sleep with both of you." He opened his eyes and looked at her funny not appreciating at all what she had said. The director however, liked what she had said and wanted to give her the part just because she said that and that she had a large chest. It makes me sick to my stomach to think that a male director or boss or who ever it is would only give a job to a female if she sleeps with him. And how does that make the women who was trying out for the role look? She offered that to both of them without the jerk director even asking for it. That's a slut if you ask me. What kind of role model is that for young girls to look at? It's pretty much telling young girls that they have to put out if they want anything in life. That's a horrible way to raise the next generation, thinking that they are inferior to the male gender.