Degradation of Women Finale

      Degradation for females occur everywhere. It occurs in work place, social media, movies, music, and so many more mainstream outlets. However, for my final post, I want to discuss degradation of women at college. Specifically, I want to go into depth about Penn State party scene.

     "I heard DTD, AEPI, and ATO are having a social tonight" my friend enthusiastically declared. At Penn State University, Greek life is vital to our community. Every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday night we joylessly roam frat row looking for a party. But people fail to realize what these parties actually consist of. Of course, everyone wants to have a good time with their friends, but without even realizing it, the vibe and aroma at parties are completely distasteful.

     At these parties, you have females kissing guys that they literally just met. Also, females are dancing to songs that are condemned as offensive outside the non party scene. For example, a popular song called "Miley Cyrus", by a rapper named Stitches, raps explicit lines. Some of these lines are very vulgar, but majority of the females sing a long to the lyrics. He explicitly describes intercourse in the song in a very aggressive voice, but a lot of the females the parties love it. It makes you wonder: why and how do these females even approve of another person yelling about sex every line of a song? 

       Frat row contains nothing but heavy drinking, music that becomes very repetitive, and the same group of people you seen at the previous time before. However, we still go to these parties despite knowing and expecting the same results. We have become so accustomed to this lifestyle that people are pledging and rushing these fraternities and sororities just to continue this flabbergasted lifestyle frat parties try to envision.

      Some females are willing to walk in mini skirts with just a top on in 30 degrees of cold weather. It can be raining, snowing, or any type of climate, but females will still wear revealing clothes to look attractive. No wonder why so many people are sick. Every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday are females roaming around frat row with only outfits to look "sexy". Who cares about dressing for warmth now and days. 

Because of this, it is now a norm for females to get with a hot guy at a party. Or, get really wasted to a point where they do not remember anything. Also, dress in clothes that will not be acceptable in a work place , and dance to songs that are clearly disrespectful towards females. Disclaimer, not every female is like that, but out of all the experiences I encountered thus far, it is easy to make this observation.

Therefore, WE ARE PENN STATE. I love my university, but at the same time, there is degradation of women that exists here. The problem is people fail to see the problem. The problem is in front of us the whole time. We are so enamored with the college life that movies and videos depict that we are oblivious to the degradation.  So, to end my post, if you want to make a difference on the way how females are viewed in college, go against the typical norms of frat row. Dance with your friends, you do not have to make out with strangers. Actually dress for the weather. We live in Pennsylvania, not Florida. Finally, be yourself. All because everyone is doing these norms does not mean you have to do it. Just be your own individual and do what makes you feel good. Everyone is beautiful in their own way.

What Are You Watching?

      Do you remember sitting on the couch watching your favorite television show? While things are getting intense, all of sudden it went to commercials? For some people, people despise commercials since they rather continue watching their show continuously without being interrupted. However, commercials are businesses trying to promote their product, organization, or beliefs that they are trying to endorse. While creating a commercial, the whole objective is to instantly grab the attention of the viewer. Once the viewer attention is grabbed, the people that creates the commercial aims to persuade the viewer to buy or tune into their product or company. So, what are things that will get the attention of mass viewers?

      It so happens that one of the most manipulative way how to persuade men to be engaged in the commercial is to have "beautiful" women participate in the commercial. For those that do not know why "beautiful" is quoted, it is quoted since social media, reality, and commercials define "beauty" through visual than the actually definition. The actual definition of beautiful is: pleasing the sense or mind aesthetically. However, the visual conveys women that have skinny waist, big cleavage, and of course, big rears. This is what the media THINKS is appealing to the sense or mind. However, they are a lot of beautiful women that do not fit into this generalization of beauty. But the media does not portray it as much as they should.

      How many commercials do you see on a daily basis promoting all types of beauty? When I say all, I am depicting women in all sizes and shapes instead of the typical image commercials endorse. Of course there are some commercials that do, but it is displayed at a high frequency. Because of that, this gives the women an internal reflection of where they stand to other females by comparing themselves to the ones that they see. This causes low self esteem and depression for some since the ones that are on television looks nothing like they do. Why do the media keep endorsing these type of women? Specifically, why are men more attracted to these type of women? To answer that question in my own belief, if a person sees something once, a person would take note of it. If it happens again, then they will recognize it since it had already occurred before.  But, if it is repeated enough, then eventually, the person is going to eventually believe in it since they are surrounded by it so much. For example, if a person was surrounded by people that were racists, then they might succumb to racists beliefs since they re surrounded by that type of beliefs. So, since men and women watch television so much, this causes the media to keep repeating the same visual of these type of women causing this to be the accepted definition of "beautiful".

      If we want the degradation of women to come to a dissolution, we need to stop feeding our children, our men , and our women the same superficial image of women that consists plastic surgery, Botox, and make up to cover the person that they are deeply insecure about. All women are beautiful. Do not let these commercials trick you into believing you are not.