Femininity and Womanhood Being Erased from Entertainment
This article is very much dedicated to the women who read my content. I want to know how you view this topic and your perception of femininity and womanhood in entertainment and cultures over the last 15 to 20 years.
From my perception and understanding, it appears that femininity and womanhood are being replaced with Androgynous, typically used to describe a person’s appearance or clothing as having elements of both femininity and masculinity.
Is this a bad or good element in popular culture, or is it merely the changing of fashion? For instance, people born between 1946 and 1964 grew up with Marilyn Monroe and a preference for women with larger breasts and more feminine bodies.
In the 1980s, there was the fake look with the use of plastic surgery, and in the 1990s, the cocaine looks with women look stick thing.
Over the last 20 years, in terms of popular culture, preference has been for women with wide hips, large breasts, and a figure and more exotic look that is the Kardashians looks.
Now the Kardashians are taking out their Brazilian butt lift and other surgeries and implants to give them more than a thin look.
Still, regarding animations, television series, and other entertainment mediums, there has been a replacement with more gender-neutral characters that appear in Androgyne.
Is this bad or good for women and girls, particularly women growing up in a culture with the promotion of androgyny?
Furthermore, they’re not exposed to female figures or protagonists that look like feminine heroes, such as Ellen Ripley, first seen in the 1979 hit horror movie Alien, a female action heroine from the Alien franchise movies, with the character being portrayed by the actress Sigourney Weaver.
Femininity versus Masculinity
Our young women, particularly women going through puberty, are not being exposed to femininity in an optimistic viewpoint due to the promotion of masculine values within the culture over feminine values and interests being pushed onto women.
Is it harmful, or is it a natural process for a woman to go to due to being such a young age, from the age of puberty until their late 20s, being perceived primarily by your sexual value and hotness, particularly within that age bracket?
You are being seen as a sexual object valued for your sexual value. Does this make young women reject their natural femininity in favour of becoming more masculine?
Or could it even be the culture is rejecting femininity and that young women are being told to man up? Men are being told that they should women up in regards to gender roles. Would both sexes be, on average, would they be happier in their traditional gender roles?
When I write gender roles, I don’t mean a 1950s housewife; I mean a woman comfortable in her divine feminine and a man comfortable in his divine masculine where both party’s masculine and feminine behaviour can work together in partnership.
Historically, before the start of the Industrial Revolution in 1769, women worked just as much as men on the island of Great Britain, working in the fields, creating clothing and cooking food, and working in household industries.
It was only a brief time, particularly for middle-class women, between the 19th and mid-20th centuries when women were confined to the house to fulfil their domestic role; industrialisation removed traditional work that women did.
So, what conservatives push for the traditional housewife is not traditional; it is just a small phenomenon which is not the norm in human history.
I should make this clear because femininity in popular culture is often confused with the 1950s housewife or somebody who is unmotivated, and it could be this attitude of one particular moment in history that influences girls and women.
