Hey guys! So after the success of my first video about how women are groomed
by society to tolerate abuse, I decided to make another video, which is this
video, about how women are marginalized by
society and told that they are less than. This video will focus more on women in
the workplace and in Hollywood. And if you haven't seen my first video about
this topic, specifically about how girls are groomed from a young age to
accept and tolerate abuse, go watch it here either in the card
or I'll put the thumbnail here. So number one -
Women being indoctrinated into the military and medical industrial complex.
For a long time women in the U.S. were told to stay home
because they were the moral centers of their families
and if they went out to work what would happen to the children?! Women were placed
on these pedestals of morality and were kind of uplifted
inside the home, but the sphere of domesticity only existed to keep women
out of the workplace, to keep them from making money and becoming independent.
This of course changed during World War II where men were drafted and had to go
to war and women were told to leave the home
and enter the workplace, but of course women were only encouraged
to work outside the home because the patriarchy had to let them.
If they didn't go to work, who would make the tanks,
planes, bombs, etc? And during this time women were only
praised for their work because they were uplifting the medical and military
industrial complex. And even women who weren't necessarily
working in a factory, but were just singing and dancing for
the troops, were praised because the war was more important than the home.
So through WWII we learned that
it's okay for Rosie the riveter to make bombs and planes, but as soon as her
husband comes home and she wants to pursue her liberal arts degree she's
told to get back in the kitchen and take care of her man.
Women have always been pushed into fields that pay less than men,
so they have to depend on men financially. Not to mention
we just tend to pay those fields less because they're seen as "women's work".
And they don't help to uplift the medical and military-industrial complex
of the U.S. However after the normalization of women
pursuing higher education everything changed. Men now saw women as
extra hands to help, again with the military and medical industrial complex,
to further American imperialism and therefore, "women's lib" was
appropriated by the patriarchy. Men made women feel guilty
for not pursuing more studious fields like science, technology, engineering, and
medicine, without ever delving into the fact that
women have been kept out of those fields on purpose for centuries. They made women
feel bad by saying that, "Oh there's not enough women in stem fields",
without actually realizing why there weren't many women in stem fields.
Nowadays women are constantly being pushed into stem
and some women do really enjoy it and also it offers more financial
independence and freedom because those jobs are more highly
rewarded in a capitalistic and imperialist society, but it is still sad
to know that women who are in the liberal arts and pursue those
fields, like english or social work, are compensated less.
And even in more traditionally female fields
men are constantly deferred to because they're seen as more capable
and more knowledgeable. Even in the English major, which is dominated by
female students, male authors are seen as the
default whereas there are special classes
to just study female literature. Even my sexist sociology prof who told us
specifically that during his master's degree he would
go to the park to gawk at women, knew that he benefited from the glass
escalator that puts men at the top of women's fields,
specifically social work. And this doesn't just exist in academia.
Go to any space that is predominantly women
and most of them are probably gathered around a man asking for his opinion and
his advice. So number two - aging women in Hollywood.
So my patron wanted me to talk about how
and why older women aren't cast as much as older men in
Hollywood because of their gender and age. For example they brought up the fact
that Angelina Jolie didn't reprise her role as Lara Croft in 2018's Tomb Raider,
but that Tom Cruise is reprising his role in
the 2020 remake of Top Gun. And this could be because Angelina Jolie is also
a director and producer and she just doesn't
really act anymore and maybe she just doesn't want to be in the movie.
And as for Tom Cruise- I'm sorry but he's just kind of washed up
and wants to relive his glory days. But my patron's not wrong in saying that yes,
it is harder for older women in Hollywood
to get roles. Most notably Ann Bancroft, who played
Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate was only 36 when she was supposed to be playing a
woman in her 50s or 60s. Meryl Streep was already playing much
older women with dementia when she was only
62. It's no secret that women have a shelf life in Hollywood. At age 40 you
could probably be cast as a grandma if you're still not able to look like
you did when you were 20. And the weight of this pressure to
stay young has only doubled now that plastic surgery and skin treatments that
are "anti-aging" are only getting better and better. If
you want to know more about older women in Hollywood i highly
suggest Be Kind Rewind's channel and her video about hagsploitation.
In this video she talks about how women are cast and
seen in Hollywood once they're older and they're usually
cast in hagsploitation films where they're playing old senile women who
long for their glory days. And in all women just have a much harder
time staying relevant in Hollywood because the roles and opportunities
aren't there. They're not the same as opportunities that exist for older
men. While men are allowed to age gracefully
and play silver foxes, women are seen as dried up shells
of their former self. But news flash, a woman's life doesn't end
when she turns 40. And although we're realizing this more and more and there
are exceptions to the rule, the opportunities for women will never
be the same as they are for men, who get to be cast in all sorts of
movies- thrillers, action movies, dramas etc.
And older women who are cast as hot romantic leads in movies like Jennifer
Aniston and J. Lo, who are only in their early 50s
by the way, are only cast as those love interests
because they're still able to look young. What I'm saying is that
finding an older woman playing a lead in an action movie
is hard to come by and that my patron was very correct in saying
that Jolie wasn't cast in Tomb Raider because of her age
but for Cruise, that didn't matter. And speaking of older men...
So number three- let's talk about women being paired with much
older co-stars. This can be seen in of course older Hollywood movies
like American in Paris, but it can also be
seen in movies that came out during this millennia
like Little Miss Sunshine, Silver Linings Playbook,
Wolf of Wall Street, and Westworld. And also oddly enough Disney Channel
original movies. In Another Cinderella Story, which aired
on I think abc family, Selena Gomez was 16 and was the love
interest of Drew Sealey's character who was 26. It's like just so
much worse knowing that Disney was okay with pairing minors with literal adults.
Women are usually much younger than their male co-star
because again, older women do not have a place in Hollywood,
especially not as love interests. Older women are seen as gross
and infertile and honestly just unscrewable.
Even Robert de Niro in the movie The Intern,
he was 10 years older than his love interest and they're supposed to be
around the same age! It's a story about old
people finding love and she's still 10 years younger than him. Anyway, what
kind of sexist trends have you noticed recently? What kind of sexism in the
workplace have you faced? Please let me know in the comments down
below and know that you're not alone. I already made a video about a lot of
awkward encounters I've had in the workplace. And I made a video about it
here. I guess I'll put in the card or I'll put
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