Victims of Gender Bias in the Media

So today I want to discuss how we are all becoming victims of gender bias in the media. This is something I have heard a lot about lately in my television viewing as well as on and off in my reading of internet postings. There have been a lot of events that have come up recently which have brought this horrible problem to light and I'd like to touch on some of them.

First off, I recently saw some discussion from a political activist who held a strong opinion on a hot topic. As I understood it, this activist presented the recent movement in school systems to include prayer in schools as a clear act of defiance towards the separation of church and state that have been so clearly prohibited by the founders of our nation. Now while I think this person is sincerely concerned about this religious uprising, I might remind everyone that the founders of our nation were very content with prayers being offered frequently and had no objection to that kind of religious activity. I believe the problem was when religion began to be a financial and political power. Communities should decide what level of religious behavior should be enacted in their communities and what should be avoided. It's not the place of a small group of atheists to tell everyone else that they can't have their religious expression because the founders of our nation (who were fine with religious expression) said it was not okay (which they did not in fact say). This poor person with a misinterpreted idea of the separation of church and state has unfortunately become a victim of gender bias in the media.

Next I'd like to bring up an issue that is plagued by media gender bias. I recently went to a drive through and ordered some food as I do from time to time. Upon receiving my food and issuing payment to the representative of the establishment I was told, "tanks". Now I presume the meaning of this phrase was to thank me for spending my money at that place and not at one of their competitors, but I was thrown off by the pronunciation of the word. It reminded me of some time I spent in the largest nation of the Iberian peninsula where they pronounce that word similarly when speaking English. The more perplexing thing to me is that in that nation, the dialect of the language which the majority of the residents call their native tongue actually has the phoneme used to begin the word, "thanks". Actually, the phoneme for "th" in english has sounds that are split between the letters "z", "c", and "d" so I suppose I can understand the difficulty in using the correct sound for the word. But even still, I became a victim of gender bias in the media through that exposure to the word "tanks".

And the last statement I have that is proof of the boundless gender bias in the media is the following: "80's power ballads are best performed by Russian children's choirs."