Gender stereotypes & woman — Transcript

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2. 0:12uh my name is Taran Stoke to be back
3. 0:14with you again uh I'm a dad I'm an
4. 0:16author I am a surfer and I'm speaking to
5. 0:19you about uh the power differences
6. 0:22between men and women in society and we
7. 0:26are looking at the subject of a gender
8. 0:28stereotypes stereotype if you remember
9. 0:32is the Norms the uh pressures that
10. 0:35Society puts on men and women to act in
11. 0:37a certain way these are
12. 0:39expectations and last time we looked at
13. 0:42male stereotypes and if we look at men
14. 0:45in a certain way uh this leads to toxic
15. 0:49masculinity well today in this session
16. 0:52we are talking about female stereotypes
17. 0:55and especially the way that men see
18. 0:58women and if we see women wrong
19. 1:00we're going to treat them
20. 1:03wrong so so let me paint a picture for
21. 1:05you of what I mean by a female
22. 1:08stereotypes now your culture might be
23. 1:10different but on average there are 10
24. 1:13ideas about females that I mean I don't
25. 1:16agree with but they are there they're
26. 1:17the background noise that shapes our way
27. 1:20of thinking about women so let me let me
28. 1:22run through some of them even if you
29. 1:24don't believe them you'll notice that
30. 1:26these things exist in society and kind
31. 1:28of impact our way of seeing women so
32. 1:31here we go firstly women are followers
33. 1:35they should let men lead or women are
34. 1:38emotional they should let men think uh
35. 1:40they are property they belong to men
36. 1:43women are helpless they need to be
37. 1:46rescued they are dependents they need to
38. 1:49be provided for women are
39. 1:52homebound they should clean house they
40. 1:54should look after the kids women are sex
41. 1:57objects they exist to attract and
42. 2:00satisfy men they are non-analytic they
43. 2:04don't belong in maths and Science and
44. 2:06Tech women are fragile they can't cope
45. 2:09under pressure and they're nice they
46. 2:13should be quiet and defer to the opinion
47. 2:15of men and then if a woman is outspoken
48. 2:19and assertive then excuse my language
49. 2:22The Stereotype is she's a
50. 2:26and when even subconsciously these
51. 2:29stereotypes come into our mind what what
52. 2:32they do is they cause us to
53. 2:34devalue women because because
54. 2:36essentially they're all about men seeing
55. 2:39women as less than women as inferior
56. 2:42because by these stereotypes women exist
57. 2:45to satisfy men uh support men belong to
58. 2:50men uh you know be led by men but think
59. 2:54about how these ways of seeing women how
60. 2:57devaluing women causes us to
61. 3:00damage
62. 3:03women the problem is that in a society
63. 3:06that devalues women that's also a
64. 3:09society that damages women I mean women
65. 3:13are not able to enjoy the relationship
66. 3:16they should have when they're in a
67. 3:17relationship where the man thinks that
68. 3:19he's Superior uh to the woman mind you
69. 3:22the man's not enjoying that relationship
70. 3:24either um or think about how in a in in
71. 3:27in a gender unequal culture women get
72. 3:31the bad deal mental health they're far
73. 3:34more likely to experience depression uh
74. 3:37anxiety uh self-rejection they speak
75. 3:41about how they're in a group of men they
76. 3:43try talk but the men speak over them the
77. 3:46men don't listen well think about in
78. 3:48those poor cultures that still practice
79. 3:52infanticide the killing of babies a baby
80. 3:54girl is far more likely to be killed
81. 3:56than a baby boy and mind you in gender
82. 4:00unequal cultures when a woman is killed
83. 4:03U there's plenty of research to show
84. 4:05that newspapers are far less likely to
85. 4:07even report it which shows that we
86. 4:09actually Place less value on the life of
87. 4:13a a woman than we do on a
88. 4:17man my point is that in a culture that
89. 4:20devalues women we tend to uh treat women
90. 4:23really badly and uh this is probably
91. 4:26going to be the most intense part of my
92. 4:28message to you today and and and I'm
93. 4:30going to speak about the way that gender
94. 4:33inequality leads to a culture in which
95. 4:36we damage women not just emotionally not
96. 4:38just limiting their potential we damage
97. 4:41them physically and please I'm not
98. 4:43blaming you I'm not blaming me I'm
99. 4:45speaking about the culture that that we
100. 4:47live in that is so destructive to women
101. 4:49so let me quote for you the scars
102. 4:53Against Humanity the author of this book
103. 4:55this is what she says what is it about
104. 4:57human societies that tolerates the kind
105. 4:59of hatred and violence towards women
106. 5:02which is greater than is found even in
107. 5:04animal communities what is it about some
108. 5:07human cultures uh that that makes it
109. 5:11normal for women to undergo and here's
110. 5:13the heavy part rape domestic abuse
111. 5:17sexual violence and harassment beatings
112. 5:21cutting uh
113. 5:23molestation
114. 5:24infanticide trafficking bride burning
115. 5:28child child prostitution
116. 5:30and sexual slavery and the author goes
117. 5:33on to say that back behind these
118. 5:35injustices that are R In some cultures
119. 5:39is a lower view of women than of men
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