Harriet Martineau & Gender Conflict Theory: Crash Course Sociology #8
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Date: 2022-04-04
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William
The like to dislike ratio is fascinating to me right now. Not once have you mentioned the gender issues at the time. I had to remember it all. In hindsight, it was a very damaging time for feminism in general and not because of the -not-a-real-feminist- argument people like myself hid behind to ignore actual issues. The media coverage was really damaging at the time, focusing on caricatures instead of the actual problems being presented.
Truth is, men had a fear of matriarchy. Taking every word of feminism and the caricatures being presented and thinking of the motivations being a shift in power rather than a stabilization. I remember a lot of the arguments back then, and I will admit in embarrassment that I believed some of these people claiming that these feminists didn't aim for equality and were focusing on the wrong things.
In a way they were right about focus on the wrong things, but that wasn't the feminists, it was the debunking narrative.
Let's take the ban bossy situation for example. The focus in reaction was the sillyness of banning the word, and. yeah. the banning of the word is silly. In hindsight though, the ban bossy was trying to talk about the real problem women have to face of stereotypes and gender discrimination. The word itself wasn't the problem, but ignoring it was not a solution. There is a true problem where words are more harmful to a minority voice than to the privileged. I'm a white male, so I have the advantage of being able to laugh words away and not have to worry about my future. Us being called bossy is not something that can affect us, even in the most sensitive of levels.
Meanwhile, as a small girl, being called bossy is something that does have more consequence as a female. That word does become a weapon and does push them down from being able to be stronger than they can be. If boys got called bossy and, let's say cried about it at home. it's more likely a father figure would describe the tears towards that as silly. The stereotypical boy would have some sort of support, even if it seems minor. You'd think a girl would have something similar at home, the only difference being gender. Without making assumptions, I'm just going to bring up that a nagging wife is a stereotype that is still presented in modern media.
Yet that being said. at the time, that reality wasn't the focus. The focus was that some silly woman was doing something silly. The reaction was to shut it down, treating this problem with behavior therapy when it needed psychoanalyzing.
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The like to dislike ratio is fascinating to me right now. Not once have you mentioned the gender issues at the time. I had to remember it all. In hindsight, it was a very damaging time for feminism in general and not because of the -not-a-real-feminist- argument people like myself hid behind to ignore actual issues. The media coverage was really damaging at the time, focusing on caricatures instead of the actual problems being presented.
Truth is, men had a fear of matriarchy. Taking every word of feminism and the caricatures being presented and thinking of the motivations being a shift in power rather than a stabilization. I remember a lot of the arguments back then, and I will admit in embarrassment that I believed some of these people claiming that these feminists didn't aim for equality and were focusing on the wrong things.
In a way they were right about focus on the wrong things, but that wasn't the feminists, it was the debunking narrative.
Let's take the ban bossy situation for example. The focus in reaction was the sillyness of banning the word, and. yeah. the banning of the word is silly. In hindsight though, the ban bossy was trying to talk about the real problem women have to face of stereotypes and gender discrimination. The word itself wasn't the problem, but ignoring it was not a solution. There is a true problem where words are more harmful to a minority voice than to the privileged. I'm a white male, so I have the advantage of being able to laugh words away and not have to worry about my future. Us being called bossy is not something that can affect us, even in the most sensitive of levels.
Meanwhile, as a small girl, being called bossy is something that does have more consequence as a female. That word does become a weapon and does push them down from being able to be stronger than they can be. If boys got called bossy and, let's say cried about it at home. it's more likely a father figure would describe the tears towards that as silly. The stereotypical boy would have some sort of support, even if it seems minor. You'd think a girl would have something similar at home, the only difference being gender. Without making assumptions, I'm just going to bring up that a nagging wife is a stereotype that is still presented in modern media.
Yet that being said. at the time, that reality wasn't the focus. The focus was that some silly woman was doing something silly. The reaction was to shut it down, treating this problem with behavior therapy when it needed psychoanalyzing.
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Fearofthemonster
I feel like these courses are just skimming the surface. I understand that the time is limited but why are you wasting our precious time with people instead of focusing on purely on sociology.
From 1. 27 to 3. 25 you talked about Matineau. That is 2 minutes in a video that lasts 8 minutes(plus the credits)
Just like I don't need to know who Einstein is to understand the theory of relativity, I don't think I need to know who Martineau is to understand gender conflict theory.
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I feel like these courses are just skimming the surface. I understand that the time is limited but why are you wasting our precious time with people instead of focusing on purely on sociology.
From 1. 27 to 3. 25 you talked about Matineau. That is 2 minutes in a video that lasts 8 minutes(plus the credits)
Just like I don't need to know who Einstein is to understand the theory of relativity, I don't think I need to know who Martineau is to understand gender conflict theory.
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Danuel
-Feminism pushes for equality of outcome among genders therefore it is good. The patriarchal structure does the opposite, therefore it is bad. - The implicit assumption is that equality of outcome among genders is good. It's not, it's utterly useless. Men and Women and necessarily different, each lacks what the other has. It's a beautiful intertwining, debased by the idiotic notions of equality of outcome.
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-Feminism pushes for equality of outcome among genders therefore it is good. The patriarchal structure does the opposite, therefore it is bad. - The implicit assumption is that equality of outcome among genders is good. It's not, it's utterly useless. Men and Women and necessarily different, each lacks what the other has. It's a beautiful intertwining, debased by the idiotic notions of equality of outcome.
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Joseph
Not to be that guy, but you forgot to mention that the right to vote included the responsibilities of taking part in the draft and the mandatory bucket brigade (fire department. Moreover, the largest group in opposition to giving the right to vote to women was. women. Just saying. We should include ALL of the history.
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Not to be that guy, but you forgot to mention that the right to vote included the responsibilities of taking part in the draft and the mandatory bucket brigade (fire department. Moreover, the largest group in opposition to giving the right to vote to women was. women. Just saying. We should include ALL of the history.
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squidd024
I'm writing a paper on feminism, just everything about it. It would be helpful if someone who is a feminist could reply to this and give me their perspective on anything. It can be one sentence, it can be five paragraphs. Anything could help. And CrashCourse, may I use some information from this video in my paper?
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I'm writing a paper on feminism, just everything about it. It would be helpful if someone who is a feminist could reply to this and give me their perspective on anything. It can be one sentence, it can be five paragraphs. Anything could help. And CrashCourse, may I use some information from this video in my paper?
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Natalia
i had to slow this down 0. 75. The conversation needs to be slowed down to be able to interact with the information - it's coming across to quick to have an opportunity to absorb the information properly. please consider how fast the presenters speak.
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i had to slow this down 0. 75. The conversation needs to be slowed down to be able to interact with the information - it's coming across to quick to have an opportunity to absorb the information properly. please consider how fast the presenters speak.
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Sunshine
3rd wave feminism is also focused upon the choices of women. That is to say, if you want to wear make-up and look -girly- then you should not be shamed. If you want to wear traditionally masculine clothes, you should also be accepted.
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3rd wave feminism is also focused upon the choices of women. That is to say, if you want to wear make-up and look -girly- then you should not be shamed. If you want to wear traditionally masculine clothes, you should also be accepted.
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Zimba
Education was not denied to upper class women. More women graduate from university than men. You discuss history using a modern lens, ie modernism.
Your definition of feminism is not that presently practiced.
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Education was not denied to upper class women. More women graduate from university than men. You discuss history using a modern lens, ie modernism.
Your definition of feminism is not that presently practiced.
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Bill
No mention of her defense of laissez faire economics and her attack on Dickens for daring to support government regulation of factory safety? She was a great abolitionist but also an enemy of the working class.
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No mention of her defense of laissez faire economics and her attack on Dickens for daring to support government regulation of factory safety? She was a great abolitionist but also an enemy of the working class.
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Stan
Structures of power creating inequality only exist in your head as does the term gender when used to refer to your self representation as male or female. Your thinking is un Godly and insane.
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Structures of power creating inequality only exist in your head as does the term gender when used to refer to your self representation as male or female. Your thinking is un Godly and insane.
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