Blog 19

People love a fight; I’ve seen quite a few fights on Mill Ave watching men fight and women fight. There are only few differences in female and male fights. Females seem to be more vicious they don’t really care about seeming cool or impressing anyone. That’s probably because females are trained to be fighters they are not suppose to be tough. That being said, are female officers more efficient when it comes to physical violence? Do they know how to step in, stop a fight, and also how much force to use? I do not think women have an inability to deal with physical violence, I think we don’t see a lot of women using physical violence because it is ‘unlady’ like and we don’t want our little girls using force.
The media depicts women in male dominated professions are tough, masculine, and neutralizes their femininity. Take for instance SVU, the female detective Olivia Benson is great with children she has a mothering role even to her hyper masculine partner and she is attractive though it is rare to see her with a romantic interest or even be thought of in that way whereas the men on the show all have wives or romance problems. She isn’t hyper masculine, although several women on the shows (SVU/ Criminal Intent) are they also show that all of the women have had some sort of abuse to explain why they are in the field most of the men on the show just ‘wanted to be a cop’. The media doesn’t show beautiful level headed women as police officers, corrections, firemen, EMT’s they show them as wives, mothers, care takers, and teachers. This sends a message to girls but also to boys who become men and then treat female coworkers differently and see them as less. Media sexism doesn’t only damage girls and their career choices it damages society as a whole because they don’t show women kicking butt and taking names. They are a back drop, a minority and women will stay that way until something changes and people take notice.