Men's Violence Against Women

The topic "Men's Violence Against Women" seems limited when you first think of it, but it is actually quite a rich topic for media projects.

Your first thought may be domestic violence, with a father hitting his wife or child. Avoid all videos about this unless you have a creative and original thought about it. This is not the entire problem. Violence against women can be any of the following and many more:

• Cat-calling

• Victim Blaming

• Discrimination

• Lower expectations for girls

• Date Rape

• GamerGate

• Women and AOC's Green New Deal

• Women and girls fear walking down the street at night

• The Gillette commercial

• violence against queer and trans-women as being less than and or not women in the hetero-conservative sense

• Women's lack of equal treatment in the healthcare system

• lack of focus on the emotional awareness/intelligence of males resulting in blaming of emotional urges and behaviors on women (seen throughout law, religion, politics, social hierarchy)

• Harassment at work and/quid pro quo

• Victims who are blamed because of how they dress

• Intoxication and consent

• Gaslighting

• The feminizing of vegetarians

• mansplaining

• Inequity amoung women and men, and the stigma of periods and sanitary products

• Controlling

• Emotional abuse in relationships. Making her believe she'll never get anything better than him, trapping her.

• Hearing' an idea only if it is pitched by a man

• Tone-policing (narrowing how a woman is 'permitted' to express herself)

• Dress codes being applied differently for girls and boys

• Online bullying & harassment

• Lack of childcare (most single parents are women)

• Appearance policing (narrowing how a woman "should" appear)

• The negative effects on men of violence against women

• Chivalry or control?

• The pink tax

• Healthcare providers not listening

• language and leadership differences in the professional world

• manspreading for dominance

• inequities in traditional masculine sales areas (car repair, Home Depot, construction)

• inequality in professional sports

• PTSD caused by abusers

• end capitalism

• Financial abuse, male controlling all of the finances and giving “allowance” even if she makes her own money.

• Talking over, talking louder, shutting down her voice

• Saying she is "shrill," "whining," "complaining," "bitchy," "emotional," etc.

• Slutshaming

• Talking down to women as if they are less than or ignorant.

• Male intimidation in professional settings (expectation of sexual favors in return of professional advancement or the insinuation that one has to do so in order to move up; “boys club” at work, etc)

• Online sexual harassment

• Gender pay gap which leads to lack of financial autonomy

• The gender biased expectations of contributions on social media

• Sex industry worker abuse

• Video gamer discrimination

• Physical vs emotional vs financial vs sexual abuse

• Entitlement to a woman’s body, agency (decision making powers), domestication, and emotional value

• Rape culture

• Toxic masculinity

• Friend-zone

• How Brock turner got away

• Cyber bullying

• Certain dress codes for girls in school especially younger girls. And how that mentality is already set in at a young age of watch what you wear cuz someone might take advantage of you

• Higher priced identical products, and the burden of birth control

• Looking at misogyny as a whole and internalized misogyny as well and how it contributes to our feelings towards women as a society.

• I was told girls are not good in math so they concentrated on the males.Sports were not as open to women they are better now! Boys are taught to stand up for their rights vs girls are taught to be "ladylike." Men have always got better salaries.

• Mom guilt. I have never heard anyone asking a dad if he feels guilty going to work and not staying home with the kids.

• I have experienced multiple instances of being in a room with a male coworker while we jointly pitch a project and my coworker was the only one addressed directly. It even went so far as when I specifically vocalized our plans they would look at my male counterpart and congratulate him.

• lack of women and especially lack of women of color in government roles

• Also countless occasions with insane pay gap situations.

• The basics of consent, emphasizing that it can be revoked at any time.

• No means no!

• Male privilege

• Non participation as fathers. Single, married or youthful. Planting a seed doesn’t end the man’s duties, when ignored it places unbalanced burden on the mother.

• Female gamers face toxicity, other barriers in pro e-sports

• Highlight some great things women are doing today despite all that is happening

• Hillary Clinton's Story

• Tell the story of a woman

• Intersectionality of black and female identities being told to support your/black men and seeing it as the only option for dating/relationship

• Why the future is not up to white women

• Reproductive rights//men policing women's bodies--and furthering that idea and the stigma that women have to have children to be "useful"

• Age discrimination: "woman of a certain age"

• Looking at classic women's roles in the workplace (secretary, teacher, nurse) and how that has effected how women are treated in the workplace now

• For transgender women in particular, I think of the harmful effects of feeling the need to constantly be hyperfeminine and enforce gender roles upon themselves, or else they risk having their entire lives delegitimized. Also if trans women don't want to do this "performative hyperfemininity", as I like to call it, it makes it easier for transphobic people to treat them poorly because they're not "real women". Also just in general how frequently I've seen men say that they will murder trans women if they find out that they're trans.

• Double the family leave allowed if a second guardian takes at least a quarter of the family leave in the family; this helped the women in Sweden in employment - they were then not assumed to be the only ones who would take leave to care for family when hired and were rewarded for getting help!

• Something motivational or inspiring. Something about a woman or young woman succeeding while overcoming problems despite sexism and misogyny.

• Consent

• Unnecessary comments such as “you should smile more”,

• How women have to give an indirect no/ or say yes to someone’s advances to avoid verbal/physical abuse

• Create a "Man Course for Teens"

• Possessiveness of Women, Objectification of Body, Ingrained Submission of Women to Man (stay in the house, take care of kids, clean, be a man's toy), Enforced Gender Roles, Stigmas Woman are Prone to in Societies and Cultures.