Bernie Mac Show Analysis

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The evening of Friday September the 11th at 8:30pm I sat down for 1 hour to watch one of my favorite television shows “the Bernie Mac show”. In the show comedian Bernie Mac takes in his nieces and nephews while his sister is undergoing rehab. The little boy in the show, Junior has asthma, likes to do magic tricks and is sensitive he doesn’t like to play sports like some of the other boys. Even though I didn’t watch this tv show with this assignment in mind after watching for a short time it became evident that Junior didn’t live up to hegemonic male stereotypes. Bernie didn’t approve of junior’s hobbies and how he chooses to use his free time. And it’s pretty obvious it’s because he thinks that these types of activities make him “soft” like

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