Glee

I’m sitting here in the MCA at 2:00 AM waiting for a DVD to rip. I am watching Glee and it sparked me to want to write a blog. In this episode one of the girls, Brittany S. Pierce, announces to her friends that she is running for student body president. Right after this, the show goes into a song where all of the girls are dressed pretty skanky. In the show they said the school hadn’t had a female student body president ever before. The second they mention women in power the entire focus goes to a group of girls dancing down a hallway in half-unbuttoned shirts, short skirts, and altogether provocative clothing. — I think before coming to this school, and excuse the shameless plug but taking Leepers intro to DMA, I definitely wouldn’t have noticed this at all. — Why is it that the second women power, or women’s rights is mentioned do we have a room full of girls dressed sexually, and dancing sexually. I really thought these sorts of issues were handled already. I mean, obviously, as a flawed race we will never get over racism, sexism, or any other ism that causes a lot of strife in our society. I just didn’t think that mainstream media STILL would turn straight to sex when dealing women in power. Maybe I was blind to this, or just used to it – which angers me. It’s not much but I feel like… at least I noticed it now. How much are they hurting women rather than empowering them. Honestly I was too frustrated to finish the episode before typing this, so I don’t yet know the outcome, but somehow I feel like I already know they aren’t going to add anything that changes my mind on this episode. I don ‘t know if the writer did this for a specific reason, or if they are just following the mainstream standard of exploiting sex. But either way it is saddening to live in a society that does this.