WRITING ACTIVITY: LETTER OF COMPLAINT

Dear Mr. Higa,

I'm writing this letter because I want to express my complains about your video “Guys vs. Girls: Relationships” and what could you do to improve both women and men in your video (I'm going to focus on women thou, but it can be applied to men as well). For this purpose, first, I'm going to explain my complains and afterwards what would I change and why.

As a starting point I have to admit that, since you are a comical producer, this video fulfil its purpose, it is fun. But that is not enough to qualify your product as a good representation of women (and men) or to say that since it's a comical video it's not made to represent reality. Both ideas are not enough because every person can see those videos, as a consequence of that you can make people, who are not aware of the real way that women (and men) act and behave in those real situations, believe that that is the way women (and men) behave.

For the reasons shown above I want to express my dissatisfaction with your video. It is not possible that a famous media creator in YouTube with 14,614,723 subscribers (by the 18 of June, 2015) show stereotypes with out a problem. We have to remember that YouTube is a place where anyone with an internet connection can access your videos, because of that we, as users or content creators, have to be aware and conscious of not showing and presenting stereotypes and wrong ideas.

I believe that we, being part of a globalize society, need and have to improve the generalize vision of society in any aspects (for example, cultural, religious, gender, among other), we are not having relationships between persons of our own country, cultural and religious background. We are having relationships with all the world, theglobalization make us the need to forget stereotypes, it make us the need of knowing the truth, the real way things are.

With that said I want to express my solution to the problem. The solution that I think is the correct one is to show the stereotype version and the real version, the title would be something like “Guys vs. Girls: Relationships Believe vs. Reality”. I believe that is the correct way to present this theme because the problem in your video was to only show the stereotype idea of how women and men act in a relationship, with showing the real way of acting we eliminate the problem and make awareness and consciousness of the stereotype and wrong believes, and if we are aware and conscious of the problem we can change it to be accurate as possible.

Finally, I would like to thank you for leaving a piece of your time into reading this letter and I would like to ask you if you can change the way you are presenting stereotype, I think is a very important task all of us have to do. Nevertheless, I hope you continue working in your videos since they are very funny.

Yours sincerely,

Sebastián Bustos