Relief...thats all I felt when I found out I was a man ( Gender a biological concept?)

Two days ago while frantically preparing for my exam, I came a across a story in my in psych book about a boy raised as a girl. The mother was pregnant with identical twin boys. Months after their birth, one of the twins sustained an injury that damaged its sex organs; a botched circumcision that caused massive bleeding and later infection. During their son's surgery to remove the infection, the parents decided that the surgeon should continue to remove his entire penile organs and create a vagina instead.

"Oh baby baby how was I suppose to know, that my director was in Porno" - The actual accounted lyrics of the Britney Spears song

So basically my jaw hit the floor when I found out two classes ago that Mandy Moore and Britney Spears first debut videos were directed by a former porn director. Now I would like to think that maybe someday I can live by the code of benefit of the doubt, but if 95% of the videos the director made before were porn then he must use the same directing techniques in these videos. Our society is sick! I am all out convinced and at this point, I pray I have good sense to really think before I have kids. Our culture has deeply rooted pornographic values all through out our schools, workplaces and media. Porn creates a revenue of 10 billion dollars within our society; that's 10 billion dollars of porn movies/events/ and other paraphernalia that our economy banks on from U.S consumers. I am a huge proponent of one's personal rights/freedoms and sexual exploitation bought in a CD or online value packages is an example of those rights. However, there are those who wish to not have porn in their bought and paid for media. There are parents who do not wish for their little boys and girls to witness overt porn-like sexuality of their Disney hero. But maybe ignorance in bliss. If they do not know that Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Mandy Moore had their billboard #1 hit music videos directed by a porn star then maybe they wouldn't be susceptible to ideals of the porn industry.  And maybe breast implants can provide children with natural milk and Viagra can turn your sex life into a never ending roller coaster of orgasms. But we don't live at Walgreen's and the world is prone to cause and effect. my nieces love the younger Britney spear videos and songs and they love Miley Cyrus even when she dances in bird feathers behind a cage. I am scared really scared because they are so young and brilliant but they will not recognize their potential if they are bombarded by sexual images of their idols. I see them so easily feeling inadequate and ugly because they do not fit these ideals. All because the music industry saw dollar signs at the prospect of hiring a porn director for their upcoming teen stars. I see no difference between "Girls Gone Wild and these videos.
There is something wrong with our culture, some dark lust for sexualized young, hairless girls and boys. We are one of the top three importers of human trafficking, more than 70% being women and young children. Is anybody out there? Can anybody see this? Its too obvious!!! Its in our faces!!! Or is it that nobody wants to see, hear realize that each and every one of us is part of the problem.
" A hideous truth is a terrible thing to waste"

A strength of a man is what he endures, a free man is never conquered.

I can smell the sweat, feel the whip thin reeds, see the endless cotton among which appeared shadows drifting across fields of clouds. Acres and  acres of high grade soil enriched with the black blood and toil of slaves. The Cotton Gin a powerful symbol of the economic glory of the confederate south. Frederick Douglass was simply another form of the labor and capital exchanged among the various markets, stud men, good workers, dumb too. This kind of suppression leaves no room for the maturation of the soul. Under constant ridicule, subjugation and dominance, African Americans identified themselves as inferior, feeble, powerless. This state of mind passed on through to the generations that preceded them. Generations until men, like Frederick Douglass broke through the barricade of his conditioned mindset and became the impossible, free.
Historians believed that the first moment that Frederick started living his destiny was the day his owner sold him to a cruel farmer on a neighboring property. This new master was known for his ruthless treatment, his discipline, his inflexible expectations of good crops and premium profits. Not one slave remained unbroken on his land if the chose not to, death would be their only gain. Douglass was a young boy, anxious, scared of his new home. So what made him do it, what made him rebel?  After over 400 years of oppression molding his culture and identity was stirred the man to fight?
After a day of strenuous work, Douglass fainted and lost the strength to get up. The overseer called the owner and the owner preceded to whip Douglass. Douglass was beaten until he bled from his skull. He fled after the beating to his old master who simply sent him back to the plantation. Frederick and his owner clash and rather than cower, he fights back and beats his master.
The readings are great because they idolize Frederick Douglass, but identity this moment in time is a condoning of physical violence in order to gain worth. Frederick was a slave, third class at best. He would always be inferior, no matter if he was smart, honest, talented or insightful he was a slave, property. I hate the fact that in historians eyes ( who were definitely all male), regarded this event as defining Frederick Douglass of ultimately making him a man. He had to beat the dominant man down and only when he did so did he gain worth. Therefore this says to me that violence, dominance is what equals freedom.