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Gender sexism issues in todays society
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1. I decided to watch Porky’s because I’ve never watched it before. I reviewed the synopsis and was pretty intrigued by it. Therefore, I decided to put all assumptions aside and watch the movie. 2. A group of high school kids through a period in their puberty. Their lives mainly consist of watching the girls in the shower and making life a living hell for their teachers and for each other. The movie is filled with realistic jokes and peculiar characters, like Pee Wee with the short penis (which he measures every morning) who met up for sex with the school "mattress" Wendy already wearing a rubber, or the fat teaching bitch Beulah Balbricker who is determined on making life a living hell for the boys. The name "Porky's" is the name of a striptease …show more content…
The main characters all had different personality and physical characteristics. For example, Meat is a tall muscular jock that is very confident. Now Pee Wee on the other hand does not have much confident, he measures his penis every morning. He is incredibly awkward, he is like the annoying younger brother you wish you never had at times. He talks so much and gets overly excited. For example, the scene where he was thrilled after seeing the stripper’s breast. 4. The lead characters are different from my culture, by the simple fact I grew up with the mindset that fornication is forbidden and a sin. Plotting to “lose our virginity” is just absurd. We think about sex although we are taught to not think about it prior to marriage. We are only human. 5. The stereotype that was portrayed for the male characters appeared to be ideal. Society displays men as sexual beings. Men are sexually charged and eager to have sex. It is acceptable for men to be sexual in most cases they are praised for having multiple sexual partners. Women on the other hand do not have that same perception unfortunately. Women are portrayed to be sexual or speak comfortably about their sexuality. In the movie there was a scene where the girl expressed how turned on she was to the coach. She knows exactly what she wanted and went after it. This movie showed how a lot of women are feeling, but very few act on it the way she did in the
Napoleon Dynamite is one of the best movies portraying loneliness and nerds. It is the story of Napoleon in high school and his lonely adventures. All the main characters feel separated, misunderstood, and have nobody to relate to. Napoleon has no friends and lives in his own fantasy land. He is avoided by everybody. His brother seems to be mislead, wanting to be a cage fighter but staying home all the time hopelessly trying to find love and attention on the internet. Their grandmother is never there for them, though she lives her own life right beside them. They live next to a huge field, reinforcing their isolation. Practically every home in the film is
When people think of the movie Hoosiers, they visualize a small town basketball team in Indiana that wins the Indiana State Basketball tournament against all odds. However, when I think of the movie Hoosiers, I am reminded of Eureka College's Basketball team that won the NAIA National Championship back in 1994. This team was lead by Hall of Fame coach Dave Darnall.
Therefore, he uses society’s stereotypes that shape our notions of females to create the characters and the plot.
According to Schrock and Schwalbe understanding a man is being able to clearly identify that they have traits of hegemonic masculinity. Masculinity is defined by Schrock and Schwalbe as “a set of conventional signifying practices through which the identity ‘man’ is established and upheld in interaction.” (131) However, Bird defines a man, through the three different acts of hegemonic masculinity, which includes emotional detachment, competiveness, and sexual objectification of women. Women in many different films are known for being subjugated by men. Some women are able to overcome being subjugated and are able to have control and dominance when it comes gaining power. Women are able to achieve this through both manhood acts and their own actions. In
movies are about men’s lives, and the few movies about women’s lives, at their core, still
It is no secret that there is an obvious difference of how women are portrayed in the media versus men. This movie discussed female characters never having lead roles and stated that when they did it ended in the women depending on, loving, or having to have a man. One young high school girl said, “Women never play the protagonist. The girls are
Gender stereotypes can be found in many places including magazines, television shows, real life, and movies. Movies in general are overflowing with an innumerable amount of stereotypes. Just One of the Guys, in particular, is a movie that focuses on gender stereotypes. In the movie, the main character, Terry Griffith, reinforces “all [of] the clichés” surrounding both male and female genders while she is learning to be a boy, changing between the two genders, and demonstrating her actions and interactions as a boy (Denby 543). Terry Griffith is well known at her high school for many reasons; one reason being that she is in journalism class and writes for the school newspaper.
Importantly, our language influence how people perceive one another; furthermore, how society label and reference people with sexual expression (Rozema, notes, 2014). Specific terminologies determining positive or negative sex expression between male and female dramatically differ. Think about it. How many positive terms describe a sexually active woman? Perhaps, she is hot and/or sexy (Tanebaum, 2000, p. xi). How many positive terms describe a sexually active male? He is a stud, Romeo, the man, stallion and so on (Tanebaum, 2000, p. xi). Here, positive language describing female all focus on appearance and for men it focuses on accomplishments (Rozema, notes, 2014). For instance, Olive acquires her label through gossip, but maintains it with her appearance. The male peers in this film attain labels through actions and conquests. Now, the female negative connotations obviously out rank the positive. Words like trollop, tart, floozy, slut,...
...ation of men and women to the reader; we accept the cliché’s and gender-roles as the collective standard.
...the female and male gender across cultures. This role can cause problems when mistaking a male for a female much like Gallimard did in the play. Everyone from children, to the media, creates stereotypes. Stereotypes corrupt members of society, compelling them to view cultures and gender unfairly. Societies must eliminate the amount of stereotypes that are being distributed to various cultural around the world. Stereotypes are powerful, limiting, and discriminatory, and they prevent people from understanding other cultures fully. Without the demolition of stereotypical ideas, cultures that stereotype others will not see the differences between the stereotypical ideas and the real ideas of a culture.
By dissecting the film, the director, Jennie Livingston's methodology and the audience's perceived response I believe we can easily ignore a different and more positive way of understanding the film despite the many flaws easy for feminist minds to criticize. This is in no way saying that these critiques are not valid, or that it is not beneficial to look at works of any form through the many and various feminist lenses.
The Breakfast Club is a coming-of-age movie. This movie follows five high school students who all have school detention on a Saturday morning. They all come from various types of group. There is the anxious and bizarre girl, Allison; the sporty guy, Andrew; the hard-acting guy, John; the popular girl, Claire; and the nerd, Brian. They all saw each other that way too because they were “brainwashed” into accepting that. Since they are all from different types of groups, they don’t know each other, nor do they want to. At first they think they don’t have anything in common, but as time passes, that proves to be wrong. Since they were the only people in the library, they can’t help but slowly get to know each other. This movie was written and directed by the brilliant John Hughes, who in my opinion is the “King of 80’s movies.” He has directed great 80’s teen movies like 16 Candles, Ferris Beuller’s Day Off, and Pretty in Pink. This movie has mix of genres any individual could possible enjoy: drama, comedy, and even romance. The actors in the movie performed to be tremendous in their roles. The actors in the movie are known as “the brat pack”. The movie is starring: Emilio Estevez, known for popular movies like The Outsiders; Molly Ringwald, who starred in movies like Pretty in Pink and 16 Candles; Anthony Michael Hall, who was in the movie 16 Candles with Molly Ringwald; and Ally Sheedy and Judd Nelson, they both starred in St. Elmo’s Fire. There couldn’t be anyone better to portray the characters in the movie than these actors.
very few female emotions, as if she is acting more like a man or robot
Societal standards make women think that normal feelings that a man feels are not allowed for women, for no reason. She has been pushed down by not only men, but other women to believe that she is not worthy of wanting basic opportunities that are provided for men. This shows how she is discouraged to act in any way other than what society expects, and is discouraged to continue to grow intellectually, like many
This is a topic which is touched upon in the cinema very rarely. In this movie, women empowerment is a special feature, as the female characters are