Kit Harington on "Sexism Towards Men" and More: Gender News Weekly

The Sims Goes GenderNeutralShowing support for LGBT rights and inclusiveness EA has announced that they have removed genderspecific character restrictions from their popular lifestyle simulation game The Sims The Guardian reports In the gameamp8217s options for the customization of characters choices such as hair styles voice pitch clothes and accessories will no longer be split into binary malefemale categories and can be applied to any character amp8220The Sims is made by a diverse team for a diverse audience and itamp8217s really important to us that players are able to be creative and express themselves through our gamesamp8221 Maxis the EA subsidiary that makes the game announced in a blog postamp160 Creators have received positive feedback from the LGBT community which has been calling for gender neutrality in the game for a while You can preview the gameamp8217s changes in the video belowamp160amp160amp160Kit Harington Says Film Industry is Sexist Towards Menamp8220Game of Thronesamp8221 star Kit Harington pictured at top stirred up controversy this week after calling out Hollywood for what he calls amp8220sexism towards menamp8221 The Guardian reports In an interview with the the Sunday Times Harington said he recognizes the bias toward and mistreatment of women in the industry but claimed attractive male actors also face discrimination amp8220I like to think of myself as more than a head of hair or a set of looksamp8221 Harington commented amp8220Itamp8217s demeaning Yes in some ways you could argue Iamp8217ve been employed for a look I have But thereamp8217s a sexism that happens towards men Thereamp8217s definitely a sexism in our industry that happens towards women and there is towards men as well amp8230 At some points during photoshoots when Iamp8217m asked to strip down I felt thatamp8221 As to be expected Haringtonamp8217s remarks received a lot of backlash for playing up his looks and misinterpreting the definition of sexism cry us a river Kit As one feminist blogger pointed out amp8220I think what he is actually describing is feeling objectified which certainly isnamp8217t a phenomenon belonging to a single genderamp8221More on the Masculinity Crisis Britain vs AmericaAccording to new research from YouGov which revealed that younger men are less likely to describe themselves as amp8220completely masculineamp8221 compared to older generations British men feel less masculine than American men What does this difference imply and does anyone really know what amp8220masculineamp8221 means today The Guardian dove into the data and talked to experts to find out Jeffrey Leak associate professor of English at UNC Charlotte in North Carolina and author of American and European Masculinity commented on the change in traditional gender roles in America more than Britain he told the Guardian amp8220men are asking themselves amp8216If Iamp8217m not the breadwinner then who am Iamp8217amp8221 Towson University professor Andrew Reiner pointed to a gap in masculine identity between upper and working class Americans going as far as to say that a masculinity crisis among working class men has contributed to the rise of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump All researchers and experts admitted the traditional idea of manhood is changing Read the full piece by clicking the link aboveApple Omits SameSex Couples from International Motheramp8217s Day CommercialsApple has been consistently praised for its efforts to support and represent the LGBT community but is the brand now being discriminatory On Motheramp8217s Day Apple debuted a new ad containing a samesex couple lying in bed with their two infants which was shown across the US In international versions however specifically France Germany Italy Turkey and South Korea the samesex couple had been cut causing the brand to come under fire for being selective about where its showing support for LGBT rights Ad Age reportsamp160 While itamp8217s not the first time that Apple has altered ads for international markets given that Apple CEO Tim Cook is the first openly gay CEO in the Fortune 500 and Apple has been a staunch supporter of LGBT rights it is an especially strange decision from the company Watch the US version of the ad featuring the samesex couple belowamp160amp160amp160More Headlines This WeekAd Age39s Women to Watch 2016Ad Industry Hits amp8220Inflection Pointamp8221 on Women Now WhatInside Forbes39 Historic 10 Billion Richest SelfMade Women CoverWorking on a Michael Bay Film Was Kate Beckinsaleamp8217s Sexist CrucibleJennie Finch to Make History by Managing Independent League Baseball TeamHow Wall Street Keeps Outrageous Gender Bias Quiet 20 Years After the BoomBoom RoomPop39s Dueling Definitions of Dangerous WomenHarvard Researchers Have Concluded That Not All Women Should amp8220Lean Inamp8221 for Salary NegotiationsThe opinions and points of view expressed in this commentary are exclusively the views of the author and do not 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