Blurred Lines Notes

-jokes about rape/ portray women in a derogatory way
-Germaine Greer
-'How to be a woman' Caitlin Moran
-'technology has made it worse for women' - Germaine Greer
-have men always thought women were second class citizens
-sense of resentment at growing female power
-man telling feminists to man up
-some say feminism has done it's job
-sexually explicit culture -music, TV, film
-American apparel adverts promoting anorexia
-Photoshop models to look younger
-'Has it become okay to be sexually offensive to women'
-'anything goes' culture
-Stirling university banned blurred lines from being played
-hockey team chanting offensive songs
-'In 2014, it seems to be worse for women' - Germaine Greer
-we live in a patriarchal society - run by men, for men
-'new man'
-britpop started magazines in popular culture such as Loaded
-defying battle in terms of class - working class men reject the notion of equality and the 'new man'
-all about profits - changed male view in media to make it acceptable for men to care about appearance
-'Loaded never set out to be sexist'
-women were objects/sales devices - 'we love women'
-sex sells
-normalised soft porn in the music industry
-'where do you draw the line in a world of post modern irony?'
-2012 dubbed year of the rape joke
-laughing at sexist jokes is encouraging sexist people to continue with sexist behaviours
-their viewpoint is empowered by sexist jokes
-internet has allowed sexism to ''run rampant'
-Mary Beard faced sexist abuse on twitter
-question if any woman can be in the public eye without being at risk of sexual abuse
-''I don't think it's a gender problem, I think it's a political and class problem'
-GTA V - can kill prostitutes for money
-girl gamer faces sexual questions and abuse when she plays video games with other people
-sex ed lessons in schools need to be taught more often
-porn gives males false ideas about sex as it makes them believe they can be dominant over women
-video of a girl being raped was put on the internet and she got victim blamed
-females who face abuse on twitter just get told to 'turn the computer off'