In my imagination, if Terry Crews and Caitlin Moran
went out for dinner, Crews would be the one who orders a big ass steak with
potatoes and a glass of red wine while Moran would be the one who orders a
salad and soup that’s not even on the menu and the most expensive wine in the
restaurant because she’s just a bitch like that. (KEY WORDS: In my imagination).
(Clearly, I’m guilty of stereotyping).
Conversation
would start off light until Crews asks Moran when she’s going to have children
and then he’ll find out she already has them. Then Crews will start telling her
the Iron Man 3 story and Moran will call his son a pussy. All of this will make
them go into some kind of feminist intervention at the dinner table.
Terry Crews and Caitlin
Moran would both agree that women and men are not treated as equals. Crews
stated that feminism isn’t about “women [being] better than men” but it’s about
“true gender equality” because he’s challenging the idea that “men have always
felt they’re more valuable”. Crew also mentions how men are expected to prove
their manhood/masculinity by having a certain persona. Just like women are
expected to have babies for them to enter into womanhood, Moran says: “as if a
woman somehow remains a child herself until she has her own children” or “that
somehow women are incomplete without children”. They both feel like society has
been wired to think a certain way and we should ask questions and break the
cycle.
Crews and Moran would
disagree with mommy and daddy roles. Moran feels like “men can, pretty much,
carry on as normal once they’ve had a baby” and women give up everything for
this new human. But Crews believes that the responsibility of a child is shared
between the parents.
If I joined the conversation that Ms. Mohr has described I’d be quite amused. It sounds like the two are bickering about whose right while they’re both on the same side. One “deeper” into the more radical side than the other but none the less, they are both feminists. I do disagree with Moran calling Crew’s son a pussy and would probably interfere and ask her why she feels that way. I’d also argue that it is a double standard if she chooses to talk about males negatively if they don’t fit into the binary of man/male.
ReplyDeleteAfter that conversation moving into the meaning of “be a feminist”, I’d agree with Crew’s saying that a man and woman should both be treated as equals. I think Moran feels differently because she says things like, “Batman doesn’t want a baby in order to feel he’s “done everything.” He just saves Gotham again!” Showing her discomfort with males in society. I also don’t think Moran says enough for Ms. Mohr to support the idea that Moran want’s women to change but men be the same. So I disagree with that. I would have also ordered some chicken alfredo pasta, then asked Moran is her creation good, and then ask for the same. Because I wanted to.
I like to start off by saying this blog was very amusing in the begging! If I could invade this dinner, sit, and engage in this conversation, I could honestly say that I couldn’t pick or choose a side, they both had some pretty solid points made. I agree with the whole “Men and Women aren’t equals in society”, it has been like this for a LONG time, but it’s slowly fixing. I’m impressed on how Crew believes in feminism in such ways, only because he supports it for all the right reasons. I would thank him for really stopping to look at the bigger picture of things, and respect him for it. To tag along to that, Moran’s point of view on thing was also very uplifting and relatable, but I’d have to disagree some, just a tiny bit! Moran claims that, without having children you can learn the same things, and share the same tremendous feelings, as to someone who actually has kids. Ahh, I don’t want to disagree, but I must. Male or female, you learn things form your children just as much as they learn from you, special, little moments that you really just can’t get from anywhere or anyone else, for instance, Crew’s Iron Man story. You think he could have felt that deep hearted about something as little as that with just anyone? I don’t think so.
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