Men Are NOT Idiots

Sorry for all those people reading this who love the movie Frozen.  Truth is I also enjoy it! The songs are catchy, I have a sister and I love the idea of the female heroin.  All great concepts that are often overlooked in movies.  However, once the cute nostalgic vibe wears off and you actually look at the movie, it has a clear message, women should carry men.   This message is further integrated into pop culture through shows such as Married with Children, The Simpsons, King of Queens, and Family Guy.  The following are three representations in pop culture that harm gender equality in our relations.

1) Men are poor but women can support
them.  Yikes! And, we wonder why our daughters date Billy Welfare who smokes pot all day and plays video games.  TV has invoked a sense of men working odd jobs and being terrible with money, and I mean horrific, as in if they have the family savings they gamble it all or buy bowling shoes.  Frozen for example, the woman is a princess and the man is an....ice salesman??? Really??? Total equality there.  But, as usual it doesn't matter in Lalaland as they have love....ya right??? Wake up people.  Women and men need to be financial equals.

2) Men are apparently stupid.   Why do all shows display men dependant on the smarts of women?? This sets the bar incredibly low for boys and men.  If I were a man I would be pissed.  I would wonder why my gender is constantly portrayed as morons and that women are always so clever.  Reality Check: men and women are both intellectual, in fact some women are incredibly stupid, as are some men.  Trust me date someone who is your intellectual equal.  Without shared intellect you will always be lacking some thing, not to mention your friends and parents will shudder at the thought of conversing with your mate.

3) RESPECT.  Hmm, why is it in pop culture men never listen to their wives?? They always tell them they are nagging and do what they want.  BAD IDEA ALERT! If you ignore your woman and do the opposite of what she asks you will soon not have a woman (if she respects herself) or! You will treat your woman like garbage because you can (and she doesn't respect herself).  Real men are equals to their wives, they listen, they make decisions together and they certainly don't think it is cool to be disrespectful.
Oh mass media you fail both genders when you negatively portray men.  Men are awesome.  They are equals.  They are not ignorant pigs who can only hold the poverty line with zero respect for women.  They are much, much, MUCH more.  As a woman it irritates me to see such crap roles for men and the acceptance of woman of these crap roles.  By accepting these roles we see more and more young women being treated poorly and more young men thinking this behavior is so cool.  You know what is cool? Equality.  Thanks for reading!