Sexism even on game show?

On a recent episode of Fox61’s Temptations Game show, the host asked a contestant why she thinks shopping is something a couple can enjoy together. Her answer was,  “Couples should share the joy of shopping…. She gets the hand bag and he gets the bill.”

Does that statment imply the old traditional ways that say men have the jobs and pay all the bills, and the women stay home being housewives and depending of their husbands? Women love a new hand bag, but do men enjoy getting a new bill?

This brings up the issue that women still only get paid 76 cents to every $1 that a man gets paid. Is this fair? And why do women joke about giving all the bills to the man? Do they not mind? Do they not want to be considered equal? Do they not want that $1 instead of that 76 cents? Why dont they want to buy their own hand bag?

The game show is hosted by Rossi Morreale and features three contestants who earn  cash by answering questions about pop culture and current events. The players in the lead are enticed to spend some of their winnings on incredible bargains, hence the title tempations. The player with the most cash at the end of the game gets to go to Shoppers Paradise and win expensive prizes, such as a car.

The show usually had only women contestants but recently some men have been playing.

On the game show, when the contestant made the statement about shopping, everyone laughed… the audience, the host and the other contestants, including the male contestant. Do men agree with this as well or do they feel pressure that they have to make enough money to pay for their wives hand bags? Is it all society pressure?

Death for questioning Polygamy?

A 23-year-old journalist in Afghanistan was sentenced to death because he had distributed a newspaper article to students at Balkh University, asking why men are allowed to have four wives, but women can’t have muliple husbands. The Hartford Courant Article explains that the courts found the article humiliating to Islam due to the questions about Polygamy.

The Islam religion does not look at marriage as a sacrament like in the Catholic religion but looks at it as a legal arrangment where the spouses take control of certain responsiblies, like bearing children and sharing inheritance. Polygamy is not required in the Islam religion and has restrictions. A man is only allowed four wives and has to treat each wife equally. A woman is not forced into a Polygamy marriage and could sign a contract stating that her husband may not marry another woman.

Most Islamic women do not see Polygamy as defaming, but just helping the extension of a family.

Many feminists in the United States though think Polygamy is demeaning to women.

The Islam religion looks at the United States western culture very similiarly as American women look at Polygamy. They do not agree with living with a man before marriage or having a child out of wedlock.