by Jeff Cline
So i finally figured out how to get on to this blog here. I am not the most technologically person! So hello to my three classmates who will be participating in this blog. I was reading through regular news articles online and came upon and article that had to do with HIV/AIDS. However, the article was not only about this world wide disease but how it is viewed by men and women. The focus of women and HIV/AIDS has grown to be main attention of this disease. Men are still a big part of the disease but the main attention is on the women and how it affects them.
As i read this i began to think why is the attention more on women. And in my head i began to think that maybe it is because of the stereotype that men have related to sex. Men are considered the dominant person and the one in control. So by that definition a man is the one who decides to be "stupid" and spread this disease to innocent women. A woman is considered the one victimized by the acts of a man. And in some cases i would agree this is the truth and men should take more responsibility but i do not think that it only pertains to women being victims. A man or woman who does not take into consideration their well being and allows themselves to infect another person is the criminal.
A woman and man are both just as vulnerable in this situation. I do not agree that a man should be put on the side of criminal just because of the definition of masculinity. A masculine man is dominant and in control but in the sense of a HIV/AIDS a man should not be automatically considered the criminal. And the woman should not be considered the vulnerable innocent female.
I thought this article was very interesting considering that the focus of this disease truly has come from the stereotypes of men being in control and the women being innocent victims. Hope you guys have some comments or thoughts.
I hope this is how this is supposed to work!
Jeff Cline
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