I wanted to make sure we had all seen this video on "Reverse Racism" by Aamer Rahman. I realize that this video is about race and not sex, but the systematic oppression follows the same suit. In order to be "reverse-sexist," one would have to go back thousands of years and change things around dramatically.
      Grammatically,  the phrase "reverse-racism," doesn't make any sense. If we're talking about white people being racist towards people of color; that is racism. If we are talking about people of color being racist towards white people, it is still racism. Of course, systematically, "racism" refers to the former. However, grammatically, both are considered racism. Just because the connotation in Western culture is white-against-color, that doesn't change the fact that both are actual races and that one against the other is racism.
      The phrase "reverse-sexism" follows the same rules. Whether one is male or female, that person still has a sex. To simplify, "reverse-sexism", grammatically, does not exist because in actuality it is just sexism. Systematically, sexism is men-against-women, but in an instance, a woman discrimination against a man because he is a man would also be called sexism.
   
    In class on Tuesday, we watched a Dodge Challenger commercial about "Man's Last Stand," and women's response to it; "Woman's Last Stand." As the discussion progressed, we talked about the men's burdens being mundane things like putting the toilet seat down and putting away his socks. The women's problems were life changes such as stopping their careers to have and raise the men's children. This discussion reminded me of something I saw online the other day:

In this interview, Johnny Depp is asked questions about his character and about how he prepared for the role, while Scarlett Johansson is being asked about her body. A) Good for Scarlett Johansson for calling the interviewer out on the uninteresting (and frankly, rude) things he or she was asking. B)Why do women have to be asked these sorts of questions while men are asked the exciting questions? Why don't the way women prepare themselves (mentally as opposed to physically) matter to reporters and to media outlets? Diets and body-image-related questions are just the sort of things women are remembered for and credited with in the media. And seemingly from the videos we watched in class, in the house they aren't remembered for anything much better. Nagging and trying to be neat are not severe fallacies, but aren't so positive either. Why are women remembered for such mundane things? Later note: Is that Robert Downy Jr as opposed to Johnny Depp?