A show that I enjoy watching with my dad is Black-ish that was created by Kenya Barris. The show is a about a black upper middle-class family. The parents, Rainbow who is a doctor and Andre who is an advertising executive do everything that they can so that their own children do not have to grow up struggling the same way that they did but also teach them what the world is like growing up Black in America. My dad and I like this show because it is easy to relate to and a lot of the lessons that Rainbow and Andre are teaching their kids my parents also taught me.
The episode that I watch was episode 7 from season 7, Babes in Boyland. The episode is about how the parents are treat one of their twins, Diane, differently from the other twin, Jack. They yell at Diane for finding her secret Instagram and seeing her pictures and wearing a boy’s sweatshirt. The pictures that Diane posted were of her all covered up in different tank tops or crop tops. After Daine gets lectures about the way she dresses and post she talks to her twin brother and find out that their parents liked Jack’s post when he was without a shirt. Diane brings it up to her parents that they treat her differently from her brother because she is a girl and the sexist world that they live in. It was not fair for her to be lectured about her taking in pictures fully clothes why her parents encourage her to take pictures half naked. (13:30)(https://abc.com/shows/blackish/video/vdka21223338)
The problems that Diane was going through are some of the same problems that Marji goes through and talks about in Persepolis. During the war, her and other women were told to cover up and dress differently. She talks about how in school the girls were told to cover their hair even when it was really hot outside so they do not distract or temp boys. She also talks about how she was stopped while walking by two other women who treated her differently for wearing a jean jacket. She talks about how it was hard for her growing up with people telling her what to do with her body and a lot of other things. We all live in a world woman are not treated as equals compared to men. A woman will do the same thing as a man and she will be shamed for doing it. It has been a problem from the beginning of time. Women are continuously being told to “cove up”, “act like a lady” or slut-shamed compared to the famous phrase that excuses boys’ behavior “boys will be boys”. Diane was not pleased with the mistreatment she was getting and want to make her parents understand that treating her differently from her twin because she was a girl is a big problem that so many girls go through. Her parents should not have lectured her in the way that they did but made their home into a safe envoirment for all their kids to feel like they are equals no matter their gender. (17:35)
At the end, Rainbow and Andre noticed that they were wrong for treating the twins differently. They understood that the world would treat them differently and not be fair to Diane but as their parents they could not do that. We as world need to understand that treating women differently is wrong and that no one is better than anyone else. The discrimination that women have faced for century should not be something that we continue to put into the heads of children. The idea that women are less and or should be treated differently is something that no one should believe.