Dahmer - Extra Credit

While watching a film that involves progression on my research paper, it wasn't so much the plot or scenes of the movie that were related to gender, it was some statistics. I watched the film Dahmer. This movie is a horror film based off of a true story where a serial killer kills about 30 men and eats their bodies. The one thing that caught me about gender is when some statistics were being said and one was that out of the crimes today, over 75% of them are men. The narrator later said that mainly men are the cause for crime today. As bad as that sounds its most likely to be true.

Locked Up - Extra Credit

For this week’s blog, I decided to do the show Locked Up.  It’s a show where a camera crew goes to a real prison or correction facility, and films inmates and basically everything that goes on in the prison.  At one point of the show it was comparing all male prisons to all female prisons, and including the amount of each gender in prisons that have both male and females.  In the statistics that were stated, there is almost double the amount of prisons for males than there are for females.  Without assuming, a correctional officer blatantly said that men are the main cause for crime in the world over women because of the much higher number of men in prison than women.  People can say that, that statement was sexist, but by the statistics it seems to be true.

Who is the more convincing woman?

This week I am going to my blog on an episode from the Canadian series Kenny Vs. Spenny.  For those people who have never seen the show before, it is about two best friends who battle and do stupid competitions to see who is better hint the title Kenny Vs. Spenny.  The catch is the loser of the competition has to do a humiliation, which basically is whatever the winner says to do.  In one of the weeks they did a competition on who is the more convincing woman.  I feel even though I thought this episode is very funny, I also felt that it was degrading to women.  Spenny along with his personality is very truthful and doesn’t cheat nor talks bad about Kenny or the women gender.  But Kenny on the other hand will do everything in his power to win, even if it’s cheating, lying, stealing, and faking.  The jokes he makes toward the women are inappropriate but also comedic at the same time.  A less degrading example would be, when the woman was helping Kenny dress up she asked, “are you ready for your breast yet?”  Kenny’s response was I’ve been ready for yours for about 30 minutes now.  This episode hits a lot of feminine points and shows how people should not be toward women.