Hi everyone, welcome back to my blog! For today’s post, I will be sharing what my team and I had designed for our subvertisement poster that is themed “What is feminism in 2020?” I will too share my personal view of what feminism is in today’s world so do scroll down for more! 🤩
Poster
I have attached a poster that my team (Nicole, Jingying, Akshaya and Shern) and I created in one hour and we are pleased with the outcome, despite having to change our ideas several times HAHAHA & I wanted to include a group photo but for some reason, I couldn’t 😦 hence only the poster sorry!!!
The purpose of the poster is to show that women are not the only ones who should be made to do housework. We decided on the concept of a maid agency as the stereotype is usually that women would be employed as domestic workers and that they are paid to do take care of the employer’s house and also their children, if any. There is also the stereotype that men that would the ones who do not do the work around the house, as they are “usually out, hustling for the money.”
The caption “come home to something different” implicates that there is a different gender that is handling the house chores. The appliances indicates that the males should be able to cook, clean and the image of a baby is implying that they too should be capable to take care of their own children without guidance.
My thoughts
I feel strongly for the message we are trying to send as there are plenty of incidences that I have seen in real life and on Malaysians dramas whereby the female have the sole responsibility to ensure that the house is kept neat and tidy. Not only that, there is also a “rule” whereby females in the house have to serve the males food before serving for themselves. This seems to be the case in certain Malay households and that there are some who have expressed their distaste in this particular culture as the males should be more than capable to be serving their own food, without being served. It is as though they are in denial that they should be doing anything to help out around the house
My stand – there should be equal partnership in helping out around the house, as they too are living under the same roof. There should not be any excuses as to justify why males should be slacking when it comes to house chores as they are physically able.
#MeToo Movement
There is also a movement that I have known for quite some time that has been circling around social media, particularly Twitter that has been used numerous times to indicate the events that involves sexual harassment among women.
#MeToo is a campaign founded by Tarana Burke in 2006 about raising awareness of the prevalence and pernicious impact of sexual violence (North, 2019). Since then, there have been numerous occasions whereby the hashtag has been used to address the importance for women to speak up and shun away from their unfortunate experience. Infamous cases such as the trail of the former USA Gymnastics team doctor, Larry Nassar, who has been sentence 40-175 years in prison for sexually harassing more than 100 young athletes. As quoted by (North, 2019), “During his sentencing hearing, 163 people gave moving and at times heartbreaking testimony about how his abuse had harmed them and their families.”
Another case is of movie producer Harvey Weinstein, who has been accused of sexual misconduct. After the news broke, hundreds of thousands of women around the world responded to the news on social media using the hashtag #MeToo to share their stories and to show how widespread the issue of sexual harassment is (Selby, 2017).
Conclusion
The very idea of feminism is to get equal rights and it is ridiculous that women, despite being the only gender to be able to birth another human being is being denied of their own rights in society. But with a united front and having support from each other, demands for equal rights seems to be in favour of women. #girlpower
That concludes the end of this blogpost! Till next time, xx
References
(2020). [Image]. Retrieved from https://media.giphy.com/media/8luUQ8kb4XsPK/giphy.gif
North, A. (2019). 7 positive changes that have come from the #MeToo movement. Retrieved 5 March 2020, from https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/10/4/20852639/me-too-movement-sexual-harassment-law-2019
Poster for girl power with women different nations, can be used as card for women’s day, vector illustration — Vector by ghouliirina. (2018). [Image]. Retrieved from https://depositphotos.com/216704910/stock-illustration-poster-girl-power-women-different.html
Selby, D. (2017). The #MeToo Movement Is Actually Working, Study Shows. Retrieved 5 March 2020, from https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/the-metoo-movement-is-actually-working-study-shows/
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Hello Aisah!! Loved reading your blog post, it is very engaging! By the way, it was really a fun time working with you to create the poster! 10/10 would work with you again if given another chance. I have to say, your conclusion really left a big big impact on me! It really irony that the group of people that is populating the world with more people are being denied with their basic rights in society, ridiculous right? I really hope this changes soon, women are definitely capable of being more than just a person that take cares of the house, we are also able to go out to work and do something big!
It was great reading your blog post! Looking forward to your next one!
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