I thought Amber’s presentation on gender roles was interesting, and it was nice to see a different topic being presented as well. I thought her presentation was well researched and I liked the use of a handout to get our attention using a cartoon on an interesting gender role stereotype. While her argument was well organized and the presentation went by smoothly and with good support by the presenter, I felt that her thoughts on the male role in gender relations today seemed a bit off. I don’t personally feel as though men are negatively influenced by the prince charming ideal, today more than ever. While I’m not arguing that today’s men aren’t kind and respecting of women, it seems the idea that men are noticeably influenced in a negative way by fairy tale ideals in their every day lives and how they treat women seems far fetched to me. To me, the idea of incorporating a prince charming attitude into the way I treat and behave around women seems like a good idea, and is something I currently do. While its true that men should not be led to believe that they need to aid their woman in every step she takes to the point that she is left without much influence on her own life. I still think its good to have ones own interpretation of these values so that we can help our better half as much as we can in dealing with today’s stressful society. It’s about finding and interpreting the moral that the often vague prince charming character makes, lessons on a natural sort of kindness that men should have towards women, being generally helpful when we can, and understanding that we should put our woman first in our decision making.
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