...The dehumanization of women has always existed, but it seems to be more evident in today’s society due to all the media outlets that there are. Media of all sorts exist in the modern day, ranging from the physical world, such as magazines and posters, to the virtual world of commercials and video advertisements. These acts of dehumanization are posted up and seen on every magazine stand to every commercial viewed on YouTube that one passes by. In today’s society, the media dehumanizes women by dictating their roles, looks, and future, thus painting a picture of what is known as their ideal woman. Many companies advertise their products by associating them with a half-naked woman or a sexual connotation to get them the attention that is needed...
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...“Men are tough; women are in touch with their feelings. Men are providers; women are nurturers. Men should punch back when provoked; women should be physically attractive” (The New York Times). We are taught, raised, and enforced by the gender roles that dictate our lives in american society. Young boys and young girls to grown men and women have been shamed and ridiculed by the gender roles that distinguish humans in the world, As of the quote earlier by the writer Claire Cain Miller of the New York Times, men are supposed to grow up and be the one to take action while women are the supporters but must be seen as pretty. Although these gender roles have become established many of centuries ago. In the textbook Western Civilization by Jackson J. Spielvogel women have always been seen as submissive as early as the 14th century in Europe. Throughout history, women have always...
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...Decolonial feminist theory and colonialism's influence on ideas about women, womanhood, and culture. As the theorists explain, colonialism affected every aspect of life and effectively undermined the cultures of people across the Global South. Two major areas of contention are over land and gender. For colonialist powers to gain power they needed to control and regulate nature, in terms of natural resources and "natural" gender and sex paradigms. Through exploring the consequences of this control, decolonial feminist thought, theorizes about how decolonizing the world would alter nature, gender, and specifically womanhood in the modern era. Winona LaDuke states for her people, " land ownership is much more a concept that we belong to the land than the land belongs to us" (2001:1), illustrating that unlike in colonial culture, nature, including people, is not something to be conquered. LaDuke also illustrates the foundational belief system that leads to the capture and ownership of people. Primarily, LaDuke and Tamez utilize the capture and destruction of native land as a reality-based metaphor for the capture and destruction of women and specifically matriarchal systems of culture. Mohanty's idea of the monolithic classification and categorization of 'third world women' reflects the sense of ownership of...
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...witnesses the dehumanization of the Jewish people by the Nazis as he experiences the loss of his humanity by the Nazi party.Elie first experiences dehumanization when he is forced into living in the local Ghetto in his hometown of Sighet Transylvania. As he is deported from the Sighet Ghetto, the Hungarian Police pack the Jews into the cattle cars where they experience brutal conditions and many die. After their long and grueling trip to the concentration camp they are subject to more dehumanization in the form of slave labor and mass killings of their friends and relatives. Thus being a few of the may reasons why dehumanization is a terrible act that cannot be allowed Dehumanazation was a terrible...
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...specifically due to their implementation of eurocentrism and dehumanization. Eurocentrism is when Europeans hold other countries up to their own European values and experiences (Meriam-Webster). This effect only belittles the traditions of the native people and throws them into a social strata based on the rules the Europeans conjure up. Due to the Europeans believing to be superior based on their ability to fulfill the European values, they tend to dehumanize the native people. Dehumanizing the people and holding them up the rules of the Europeans, inhibits the country’s ability to develop as a nation. They are restrained by the European rules yet are expected to function as a European society. Two novels depicting the social relationships of the native people of Kenya and Rwanda, and the European society, display how the eurocentrism and dehumanizing strategy ends up affecting not...
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...Dehumanization is the psychological process of demonizing the enemy, making them seem less than human and hence not worthy of humane treatment. 1933 Nazi soldiers began the process of dehumanization of thousands of jews. Eva’s Story tells the horrific story of her time in the camp and of the dehumanization. Its starts with the process of going into hiding and then being caught by the Nazis. It then goes to how they were transported and how they treated them. Which then leads to the camps, the process of getting into the camp and then being in the camp separated from her family. In doing this Hitler achieved his goal partially by eliminating a mass of Jews. The Geiringer family was a jewish family moving from place to place because of Pappy's...
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..."exotic" in the world of beauty has been considered done for the term to use for any women of a darker complexion than the conventional standard of pale skin that the vast majority of models take up. Jean Kilbourne, activist and cultural theorist, had brought attention to this aspect in the advertisement industry as she explained how women of color are a minority in the modeling industry yet when they are placed in ads, they are placed alongside words like "exotic". This comes to hit upon the objectification of women that Kilbourne has spent her career educating people on. Women of color also have been shown in her extensive examples of ads to have been portrayed with animal prints or just animalistic features that further degrade them to the point of not being completely human. This implicitly states that to call a woman exotic is implying that she is being viewed as an unusual creature that excites the visual senses of others. It seems that the term "exotic" has come to be associated with women of color as...
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...Because thinking about people getting sexually abused, beat, whipped, burned, cut, is totally different from actually seeing it. In class, we thought what we were seeing was horrible, but that wasn’t even a fraction of what actually happened it was kind of just a preview. The genocide that happened in Rwanda was depressing and horrifying. But aren’t all genocides? I know how genocides happen and how people do it, dehumanization. I still can’t even imagine it though, I can’t imagine ever being in a situation where I actually killed someone or was trying to be killed. I can’t even imagine watching someone be killed even it was an accident. So after learning about this and the holocaust, my one question is how did people have enough hope to survive? Some similarities I discovered between the genocide in Rwanda and the holocaust were they both intensely used dehumanization. For example, in Rwanda they took clothes away from the women and MADE THEM be prostitutes and or raped them before they were killed or died from the terrible living conditions. An example of dehumanization in the holocaust is when they stole away their personal beliefs and publicly displayed it, like when the Nazi’s formed a crowd and shaved the Jewish man’s beard. Some other commons things that happened in both the Rwanda...
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...A Lesson Before Dying and The Scarlet Letter were written in different time periods, the concept of women, community (did somebody say?), hypocrisy, symbolism, and man’s dehumanization and cruelty to man are similar many ways, In our first novel, A Lesson Before Dying written by Ernest J. Gaines, we meet our main character named Grant Wiggins. Wiggins is a young black man that “ran away” from Louisiana to go to college. Although he wished to “stay away”, Wiggins was pulled back to his small religious Cajun community. Grant Wiggins is seen as a man who has a “way with words” similar to a man like Reverend Dimmesdale. Although Wiggins is not religious like the prestigious Dimmesdale, their pessimistic look on life and “finding a way out” is similar. Wiggins wonders in Chapter Eight if he is “reaching them (school children) at all.” or if he’s “doing anything at all” (Gaines 62). Reverend Dimmesdale has a predicament of his own during his time in his labyrinthine mind. In Chapter Fourteen of The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Dimmesdale states, rather grimly, that “There is no path to guide us out of this dismal...
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...are trying to corrupt the images of Arabs. The film starts from the old days and kept going to the Arab development in American history. They mentioned that Arab people are dehumanization, and the women are like camels in Arab society, and the false meaning of jihad. “The dehumanization of a people” was the first thing that was in the film, and they referred it to the Arabs people, by telling Arabs you can tell! I think it is inappropriate to dehumanize a group of people, because this is against the meaning of human being and humanity. However, he did a great job in convincing the neutral people, because he mentioned a lot of things about jihad and the Afghanistan people. But probably he failed to convince the knowledgeable people. Talking about women and that Arab people treat them like camels, is absolutely false. Women in Arab society have the same rights that men have. They were one of the first societies that gave the women her rights. On the other hand, women were prohibited to vote in old Britain society. Also the romans people, when they knew that the pregnant women is giving her birth, they would kill it if they knew it was a female. Because they thought that men are the important aspect in their society. So, why Arabs! Moreover, when they started to talk about Allah “God” and shohada, the women told him that shohada is the prayer when you give your life to God. Actually, this is not true, because this is against Islamic rule, and what some people is doing right now...
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...Comparing Beloved and Night The two novels I am writing about are "Night" by Elie Wiesel and "Beloved," by Toni Morrison. Beloved tells about slavery and an ex-slave mother's struggle with a past which is projected as the haunting of her people. It tells the story of Sethe, a mother compelled to kill her child, rather than let the child live a life of slavery. Toni Morrison uses ghosts and the supernatural to create an enhanced acceptance of the human condition and the struggled survival of the Black American. The novel is set in Ohio in the 1880's. The Civil War had been won, slavery had been abolished, however, the memories of slavery still remain. Although the story itself is fictional, the novel is based on real events. The events are based on the trial in Cincinnati of Margaret Garner, who with her husband, and seventeen other slaves (Kentuckian) crossed the Ohio where they supposedly found safe shelter. When it was discovered that they had been pursued and surrounded, and her husband overpowered, Margaret knew that any hope of freedom was in vain. She refused to see her children taken back into slavery. Without delay, Margaret quickly took hold of a butcher's knife which was laid on a table and cut the throat of her young daughter. She then attempted to kill her other children as well, then herself, but she was overpowered and held back before she could follow through. She was arrested and put on trial on the grounds that...
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...Dehumanization and civil rights are incompatible with each other, then why do we continue to take transgender’s rights. Transgenders are tipping the civil rights frontier, and they are not alone. Many countries define gender based on the physical and genetic sexuality at birth. Transgender and Gender non-conforming people fall victim to bias, who are against equality, therefore they face dehumanization. This topic needs more attention since it affects on average 3.5% of people. It may not seem like a large percent but when you are dealing with people and their lives even a small percent matter. 41% of transgenders or gender-nonconforming people have attempted suicide. (Reyes 1) The national average for suicide attempts is nine times in their...
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...That’s not the way. I told you to put her human characteristics on the left and her animal ones on the right” (Morrison 193). Morrison shows the first step of dehumanization in slavery, the ability to define (Bryne). Schoolteacher removes the identity of a human by asking his students to label what part of Sethe is human. More importantly, Toni Morrison reveals that Sethe has no power to define herself (Bryne). Instead, Sethe is an object to be acted upon and defined by Schoolteacher (Morrison 194). Another aspect which refines this dehumanization is who defines (Bryne). As Baby Suggs states: “In this place we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass” (Morrison 103). Baby Suggs helps create an idea of who freed slaves are by defining them as flesh. Baby Suggs even expands this idea by stating that the hands and feet of each free person belonged to themselves (Morison 105). Bryne expands on the idea of ownership by stating the only way a slave could attain ownership: death. Bryne states that African cosmology gave hope for freedom since the spirit lived on after death. As a result, death is the only choice for self ownership (Bryne). Toni Morrison explains that the idea of ownership is forbidden for a slave in life: “And they beat. The women for having known them but no more, no more; the children for having been them but never again” (Morrison 128)....
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...Tweets stating “Apologize for your disgusting costume & to Native people of this land who continue their struggle to be seen, heard & respected” or commenting that the costume choice was “ignorant and incredibly disappointing” (Britton). I agree with those who are angered by the couple’s costume. Not only is the costume insensitive given the events at Standing Rock, but Duff’s boyfriend is donning a stereotypical Indian costume of a feather headdress, red war paint, and fringed suede clothing. Although the couple later apologized on social media, their assumption that the costume was harmless and appropriate shows how little society has come in eradicating the racism and dehumanization of American Indians. A second incredibly offensive Halloween costume is that of two young women pictured below. The two women are wearing stereotypical feathers in their hair and as earrings, one has a braid, and both have headbands going across their foreheads. They are holding beer cans and are portraying “water pertecters,” likely misspelling words on purpose to reference American Indian unemployment. Not only are they mocking and disrespecting Natives, but they are making light of the terrible arrests and attacks happening at the #NODAPL protests...
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...wickedness, greed, and acclimation to circumstance that is innate in humans. These predispositions combined with an ability to scapegoat others and justify secular actions based on non secular principles give a recipe for dehumanization and destruction of other humans. 1. What Drives Conquerors’ Dehumanization of Enemies? 1.1 Innate Wickedness The simplest explanations can sometimes be the most revealing. “For every every European killed, one hundred natives would be executed (pg. 17).” It is clear from Casas’ accounts that the Spaniards could be labeled as wicked people with a penchant for causing suffering. This is elaborated on towards the beginning of the novel on page 23: “I know beyond any shadow of a doubt that they had, from the very beginning, every right to wage war on the Europeans, while the Europeans never had just cause for waging war on the local people. The actions of the Europeans throughout the New World were without exception, wicked and unjust: worse, in fact, than the blackest kind of tyranny.” One of the more telling examples of this ideal is given on page 35 where Casas quotes one of the native leaders as saying “Killing women is a cruel abomination and clear proof that you are brutes and no better than wild beasts.” The killing of women can be considered the most dehumanizing thing that can be done to a population as a result of disregarding the inability for them to cause physical damage and viewing them as a means of reproduction that need to be exterminated...
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