December 9, 2012
To whom it may concerned:
Hello my name is
Juan Panduro and I hope that whoever is taking the time to read this is
making the choice to listen because it’s important to try and understand the
opinions of everyone else. It’s no secret that humanity has the tendency to
treat others without the respect that they wish to have in themselves and this
is due to a number of reasons that don’t always make sense. Similarly in many
ways, women are not always treated fairy to what society says that is right or
wrong because in the moment, people don’t always do what’s right. In the beginning
of any society, their leaders make rules and patterns to how and why people
should live their lives accordingly but that doesn't mean that those rules will
always be fair to everyone and that’s how inequality is created, by the flaws
of men that still have prominent control over all of us today. These days,
humanity tends to pretend that the more we posses of material objects the better
we are but sometimes that very idea destroys its boundaries and makes us all
believe that people’s lives and rights have a price.
In our society
we get most of our information from the news media that people make by gathering
it from all the regions of the world and normally we believe them, but what
happens when you read the media that people make especially for you? then we
all just can’t seem to get enough of it. This method of luring the reader with
media that connects to them is not new, many famous writers have used it to
sell their ideas to the public of their day but today its used to move and
control nations due to the fact that they make a world where we all live in. Now
a day’s many women face the truth that many of us don’t always pay attention to
and its all to the fact that inequality is still present in our society and doesn't seem to disappear. In some places around the world it is a custom to
pay women less money for doing the same job that men do while in the other
nations like in Saudi Arabia they tend to force their women to cover their faces
because no men outside the family may see them and if they do they are punished
severely. There are more similar acts around the world but these two surprised
me the most mostly because the employers who hired women usually find excuses
and loop holes to pay them less that the average man and for that they work
twice as hard to follow the ladder in the world. Some of the society’s in the
middle east tend to follow their extreme belief of women because it’s a custom
that’s been followed for many generations and that is the biggest reason why
its very difficult for women to move forward, their current customs are still in
the past.
My family comes
from rural town in Mexico and we all have different views on our equality
around the family that contemplates how we treat each other. In my family we
have the custom of letter the girls and women to choose what they want in life
and we never disregard their dreams and hopes respectably. Despite our way of
thinking, my family knows indeed that it’s not always in that manner because
life tends to work in mysteries ways for everybody and turn us in different
directions. Sometimes in life we are handed out a choice that makes us give up
what we work very hard to get and this goes out for everyone not just women because
it’s hard to see it coming. My family knows that those facts and therefore some
women in my family have had to make important sacrifices in their lives to give
and help others in the situation of our family in this modern society. The way
that things are now, my family tries to keep a balance in their lives so that
they keep doing what is most important to them and try to complete what they
believe to be their cause in life.
In our community
we all see that nobody is completely innocent for something and that the
equality doesn't always match the way we all coexist with each other. We like
to think of ourselves as having a place to belong in our society and how they
can never take that away from you but nobody thinks that sometimes those
positions don’t always stand right in time. I’m saying that people don’t always
react well to change and progress because they are threatening to destroy the
comfort zone that many people tend to make in their lives. These actions affect
women because if we look back 100 years in our history, women weren't allowed
to have the same education as men due to the common believe at the time. Now a
day’s women have more freedom but they are secluded in different and more
modern ways than 100 years ago. The media is very powerful and with it the
wrong message about our society can spread to the point were many people start
to believe that is normal to treat women with less respect just because a
famous person can do it on television.
Caring about the
topic of equality amongst women is important and honorable because if we start
respecting people with intellect instead of emotion we would all be more open
minded with the results that almost anybody can make for the better. When a
person does the right thing, they show an example to others and prove them and
themselves that even against all odds, equality is reachable within us all. Many
writers such as Jean Kilbourne who is active in women movements have shown how
today’s society presents negative facts about women and how its spread without
a care in the world. She states: “it is hard
for girls not to learn self-hatred in an environment in which there is such widespread
and open contempt for women and girls” (596). The damage that can be cause for all this bad information takes long
period of time to fix but Kilbourne wants to first open the eyes of the public
to the reality that is the “MEDIA.”
Today it’s not
very difficult to display information in the world, with the invention of the
internet, phones and television people can simply read anything they want at
the time of their choosing. However, this doesn't mean that it’s always going
to be a good thing because humanity is very impressionable sometimes and leads to
having problems with some minorities in society. Men and women aren't always
equal even if we are from the same species but that doesn't mean that we have
to like it, the idea of inequality is always there but it’s up to people to
decide what’s right for their them and society.
The United
States is was founded as a free country but slavery and segregation were active
for the majority of its infancy until the 20th century were the
freedom movements open the eyes of many Americans into seeing the cold truth.
Now in the 21st century, segregation still exist but not as the one
before since many people forget that our new segregation is more devious that
unfair. To all the distribution of advertisement by their industries, as
Kilbourne has stated that in today’s world many women are portrayed more like
porn stars and they are being pushed to pursue more dead end jobs that
intellectual carriers which benefits society. Other countries catch on to this
allusive system of oppression and the problem only escalates in the world. What
is normal today can be different in the future since our opinions change over
time but to truly make a difference with the way the opinions we all posses, it
clear that society needs to rethink their view of his citizens.
What we all view
as normal doesn't always seem to be due to the fact that impression is
everything with today’s advertisement industry which leads all of us in a state
of insecurity. When the wrong impression is shows, people will most likely try
to mimic it if the whole world tells them to and in this case the world has
become the media that we can’t seem to get away from. It’s important to show other people that you
aren’t ruled by what other people think of you, judging only by outside
appearance and being aware that there is a solution to every problem, it’s just
that some problems required the attention of an entire nation to be fixed. All
women in the world deserve equality because they are the ones who ensure the
continuity of mankind for which we should all be thankful for. If we all
treated women as equal as possible there can be more order in our society and
many changes can be achieved over time. I am a person who jus wished to be
normal in society, but it’s just not fair to see that people are mistreated
because of their gender and seeing how much potential for the human race is
wasted to the wind. If drastic actions are required for this, so be it but I
would like to know that the message of equality for all is alive and well in
the people who read this.
Sincerely:
Juan Panduro
Watsonville, CA 95019
Works
Cited
Kilbourne, Jean. Can't buy me love: How Advertisement Changers
the Way we Think and Feel.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999. Print
"General Assembly: United Nations." Department of Public Information, 11 October
2011. Web. 12 Nov.2012
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