Attitudes of the Bar & Gender
Bars and nightclubs are social entities that are designed for entertainment and they typically serve drinks, offer music and dancing. At bars, there are many stereotypes and gender differences that make the experience for both sexes very distinct, but very conflicting. The reasons that men and women go to bars are for the most part, different and also how they are treated at the bar would be absolutely opposite. Therefore they have different experiences while attending bars. One of the typical bars, for the age group of eighteen to twenty-four year olds, is the college bars and clubs that are located throughout every major city. The most common activities that takes place at college clubs and bars is typically drinking, dancing, socializing and at times “hooking up”. These actions show that these unique locations and atmosphere can take a whole different turn on gender stereotypes. It shows through multiple distinctions such as the gendered advertisement of drinks and the different treatment of the genders such as harassment due to the atmosphere. Considering varieties of age group and social entertainment, the knowledge of the bars, specific genders and the related attitudes towards social amusements could be among the most important topics one could research.
Throughout the history of college bars in the United States of America, it is common knowledge, that men and women get different treatment no matter who they are or what family status they are in. The treatment in a majority of the College based bars and nightclubs have nothing to do with status or distinctions that are generally seen within the outside world. College focused bars are generally known because of their attention to treating ...
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Everyone knows that there is no shortage of parties in college. This rule I found was more popular with boys. And that is the ...
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