14/9/09

Today we looked into the album covers of a variety of different artists. This brought to our attention the idea of patriarchy. Patiarchy is "an influential structure of practices and ideologies which favour the masculine over the feminine". From this we also learnt what a patriarchal society ("A society where men have power and control and women have disadvantaged, lower status") was and how it stays this way.
Patriarchal societies are kept in place due to many reasons, one being the media. As the media are constantly reproducing patriarchal images of society people will gather that this is the right way in which society should be run. This is/will therefore the reason many people do not see the exploitation of women today.
Another word I also discovered today was dichotomy. This is the belief that women can only be angels or whores. This viewpoint is totally discarded by the Feminists, as they believe men are not superior to women. Furthermore they want to eliminate oppression.