Hands up those who have ever called or been called pretty or hot. Hands up those who have been offered to go out with a member of the opposite sex. Hands up those who have blushed or have made someone blush before. Well I ask you if you have truly done the things i just asked you, why haven't you been fined $10,000 for being sexist and making sexist remarks? For cricketer Chris Gayle this was the case with female reporter, Mel McGlaughlin. Good morning Mrs Arnold and class, today I will be talking to you about sexism, specifically sexism in the media and politics. Sexism, is not someone complementing you, it is prejudice, stereotyping or discrimination typically against women, on the basis of sex. Sexism, hypocrisy, double standards - …show more content…
Throughout the interview McGlaughlin remained composed and continued on with her interview. After the incident with Gayle and McGlaughlin the public was in uproar stating that these remarks were sexist and it was not acceptable for a professional cricketer to be saying such things to a female. However, during a live segment on 7’s Sunrise programme, weather reporter Nuala Hafner was at Sydney’s Balmoral Beach, when she spotted a semi-naked man doing his morning workout, she interrupted her weather report to go and introduce herself to the man, “Hello extremely muscly, fit, agile man,” she said as she approached him. “Hi how are you? I’m Nuala. Do you come here …show more content…
“Anyway it was nice knowing you,” the disappointed presenter said as she wrapped up her live cross to fits of laughter in the studio.” Hafner was praised as being brave, for approaching the man. Why is this wildly inappropriate behaviour not classed as being sexist? Why wasn’t Hafner fined $10,000 just as Gayle was? Why is it when a man offers to buy a woman a drink classed as sexist but not when a female asks a male if he’s single? Sam Bennet, CEO of the Women’s Campaign Forum Foundation states “Politics remains one of the most rampant breeding grounds for misogyny.” She admitted that she did not fully comprehend the poisonous level of sexism within our society until she actually encountered a bout of it herself. “Standing before a room full of men, she began to deliver her remarks when the chair of the meeting interrupted her with a totally bizarre and inappropriate request, ‘Sam, I want to ask a question all the men in this room have been dying to ask you: just what are your measurements’” Sam Bennet, faced unnecessary vulgarity from the chair of the meeting, however, this would not be the last time she came across such