Friday, January 23, 2009


The book that we have been reading "Where the girls are" has made me think about a lot of interesting things, about how our society looks at women. The book used "I Love Lucy" as one of the many examples of women in high heels and pearls. Do they ever take their nice clothes off even when they are cleaning? The following is what I got out of what the author Susan Douglas is trying to get across to us. The society perceives women to be a certain way. We clean the house and take care of the kids. And we never complain about it. If you think about it, even in most of the movies in the "I Love Lucy" time period, women do not complain about having to clean the house, and take care of the daily chores. I grew up watching "I Love Lucy" and because of that, I would feel out of place if I complained about doing house chores, because you simply don't see complaining on TV, with women and their house chores. Why does the TV business to this? Obviously this is not the way all women are, so why do they make us think this is the way we act? I just thought this was an interesting point that Susan made in the book.

3 comments:

  1. Im not even going to pretend I have the answers to the sexism that this country has gone through. I will say it is sad and very much has changed from the good old days of I Love Lucy. I never really looked into television that much I just watched not thinking of it as a learning realm. We can only hope more kids are like that and grow up seeing it only as a means of entertainment and not the reality.

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  2. It is interesting how I love Lucy was able to portray that kind of sexism but make so much money off of it at the same time. The kind of things that our country does. But I got to admit that I kinda of love that show. Because I love their neighbors ethel and whoever. Good times.

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  3. I like this comment because i think it shows how far we have come just since when this book was written. On TV no-a-days, i feel like i all i see is a beautiful, independent woman married to a sloppy, over-weight husband that listens to his wife complain about her busy life and nit-pick at what he does. That is 1,000 miles away from what the women in Suzan Douglas' time were exposed to. While i don't think that the media portrays women the way that they really are, i think we are getting better and more honest about how life is in real life.

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