Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Radical Ideas


By Nathan Rosenberg and Kris Jensen

                Within these pictures you see the concepts present in shifting hegemonies in our culture the first being present in the first picture of equal opportunity and with the second picture of equal protection. Within the first picture you see comingling students an ideal that up until the last sixty years was almost unheard of in an academic setting there were clearly defined roles associated with men and women and the push for equality can be seen very heavily in the halls of universities but there is still resistance to the ideal of equality seen with glass ceilings and tradition

                In the our society there is still a very gendered approach to crime and the handling of victims and although it is getting better with laws like the rape shield laws there is still the approach that a crime is done to a man and that a woman asked to be assaulted or brought it on herself. We challenge this notion here by pointing out that the victim is not to blame, that they didn’t ask for it, and in all situations no means no.

2 comments:

  1. Hah, I love the sarcasm here, especially calling it a 'radical' idea.

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  2. I think it is great that these radcial ideas of feminism are coming from men. I especially like the second, it fits stereotypes of a woman walking alone with in a shorter skirt and the idea that she wants to be attacked or assualted. Very good job guys!!

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