Socializing ; Killing us Softly & Call to Men

1.       1. Summarize Killing us Softly. (1-2 paragraphs)

Killing us softly was simply a documentary of a woman speaking the truth on how society makes women feel. They want females to be goddesses or if they aren’t to make themselves look like that. To me the documentary is amazing because she speaks the truth and a lot of women need to see that their beautiful the way they are society wants everybody to look alike. All societies does is JUDGE. For women society judges hard because they all want you to have bigger breast or rounder, bigger buttocks. Basically this documentary was focused on the women’s body. Instead it should be about a women’s personality which it should be. They are actually degrading women in sneaky ways in these ads. From young there trying to show that females should be passive and a male should be active.

2.     2.  Summarize a Call to Men. (1-2 paragraphs)

   A call to men is a documentary where a man is calling out how society THINKS men should be to a woman, or how to be a “MAN”. He told powerful stories or his own life to show how men treat unmanliness things. Such as crying or showing emotions.  Again another documentary who are downgrading women or the role women play. It’s kind of annoying how they think women are such delicate creatures or should be. He showed how through his experience’s he showed not only did he feel bad about the things that went down but felt bad at how men are supposedly programmed to be. He also stated “we operate under foundation this whole collection of socialization we kind of see our self-separable were very much a part of it”. Which shows me society has the thought of how males and women roles are supposed to be, very wrong.

3.       3. Explain how both video relate to our chapter on Socialization. (1-2 paragraphs)

Socialization and both of these doc. Relate because it shows how wrong society can be. With the way they judge us different people interact differently. Not all males are macho men and not all women are delicate little flowers like they portray us to be. Not all men look at women where as they need to be dominate over them because like discussed in class males such as the one labeled as “mommas boys” some see women as equal or even more then they equal because of the way they would typically want a male to treat their mother or how they seen their father treat their mother.

4.       4. Find one picture that represents the ways that boys and girls are socialized? (E.G. toys, TV, products etc.)