Just because this is the modern world doesn't mean we're up to date.

In Tatum's article Ddefining Racism it specified that racism still exists in this country. I've seen it many times living in the south of a America where not everyone is up to date on this love everyone kinda thing. I thought the peace movements happened in the seventies? Racism has been such a common thing through American history that it is now taken as a given. Racism isn't the pointless hate of the white man against the "minority" populations. All of the minority populations have been taught that racism is a main trait of common white society. Racism exists still, but not to the extent that most of the population is hate mongering fools. How would you like to be called a hate mongering fool?

In White Privilege by Peggy Macintosh it is defined that reaping the benefits of being white (or male). There is a list of all the little feelings that you can attain by growing up around all of your people. There are many facts of racial oppression that any human can negatively affect the rest of the population. A white man can go and get a job that could have went to a needing black man. Then Tatum's notes on using racism as a prejudice can be used for the benefit of the black man. The black man can use the reasoning that the employer was racist, and that was the reason the white man was hired over the black man. So the employer, not wanting to be black listed as a bigot or racist, must hire or put out in some form.

We must come to appreciate the fact that racism and prejudice can be used in any number of ways. Whether those ways are positive or negative for you're own personal benefit.

Hooray for Boobies!

Or so it seems....

This modern world is directed around women,  addressed around women, and the fashion statements are started with women.  Most of the of the ads in modern advertising are for women.  Seemingly even most of of the ones about sexual diseases and pregnancy.  

This modern world is ruled powerfully by our advertising trends.  Many of the trends we would never understand until it was pointed out at us.  Like the phallic imagery in the camel cigarette packs or the shape of a coke bottle that resembles the curves of an attractive woman.  In the world of advertising freedom of speech needs to be taken more responsibly.  Especially in fashion magazines, because everyone wants to be famous.

Although, the closest you can get to be famous is looking like someone famous.  Of course when you're taking your fashion cues from a porcelain Plexiglas figure in a magazine you become something unnatural.  To look like this you are required to do things unnatural and generally unhealthy.  It really does not help that we are not a sex driven society.  Freud may have not been completely right in his theories, but he was true that we are psycho and very much sexual.  

It seems a lot of ads subconsciously blame women for things.  When you look at most ads against pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases you will never see the man passing the disease, and it's never the man taking the blame for pregnancy.  It's always the women that's a whore for sleeping with only one man and gets pregnant. It's never counted that that man could have easily been sleeping with a different woman every night.  Men are the biggest whores because we'll do anything without getting payed for it.