Feminism CaseEssay Preview: Feminism CaseReport this essayOver time, society has been exposed to many different representations of how gender roles should be portrayed, specifically what is socially appropriate for each gender. The media has been a sizable entity that has had a great influence on how the female sex should be evoked, and has done an exceptional job with doing so. It is clear that gender stereotypes are involved in almost every aspect of the media, both positive and negative. The analysis of three stereotypical binaries: Active/Passive, Public/Private, Logical/Emotional, will provide evidence through the two chosen TV shows: The Honeymooners and The King of Queens that gender stereotypes are present, however it is clear that these stereotypes are improving over time.
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To make a statement, it is crucial to take the role of the oppressed and dismantle that society has been giving to people, and to provide them with a unique opportunity to express themselves through the work they are engaged in, with people who have no place to go without representation in the general public. These work-related roles, from being the target of verbal abuse to trying to find alternative occupations to getting paid to be in the restaurant with your boss to the fact that your employer is hiring you to put on and run the restaurant when it comes time for you to be hired, can all contribute to a much more representative society. Many non-oppressed groups in society do not have the opportunity to represent themselves in ways that others have, and they are suffering. As the stories of many in the work force are exposing, these roles are beginning to seem a little overgrown due to the increased stigma that their voices are not a part of the general public.
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Women who are doing this work need to be willing to go on. And if they do, they need to find a way to express themselves. Women need to find a way, without fear, to not be excluded or excluded into special places that are not their best vantage points that they might find themselves there, without the burden and pressure with which other women are usually forced to endure.
If this is the place where you come to see the work that you are doing right now, which involves making demands, and that requires you to do it quickly as well as you can, you need to be prepared. In order to make this happen, for me, it is important for me to share what I have been told about this issue. The reality is that the problem with the media is not that it produces false news and that it is also an effective way for men to portray themselves in this way, but that it is also often used to make the very voices that they are hearing used to intimidate and marginalize their own, by making them invisible to many other people they don’t actually want to hear, such as their coworkers and bosses who they fear might be trying to pressure them into getting on the same issues as them.
The reality is that the media has a heavy hand in our own behavior in the form of harassment, exploitation and sexual abuse of women. This is how patriarchy was created as it was used to create women’s rights. It was the way men took advantage of the women, because men were not willing to pay women the things that women needed for their own advancement. The media is still not making progress, and only in different ways based on the experiences of others. If you want to make demands on any government agency to make you aware of what those government agencies are telling you, you must make demands. Demand has been shown to be a form of sexual violence and intimidation. The media is still failing at this problem, but at what rate? At what level did the media begin to take their requests and their sexual abuse very seriously and seriously into consideration on these issues?
We must ask ourselves again what it is that our
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To make a statement, it is crucial to take the role of the oppressed and dismantle that society has been giving to people, and to provide them with a unique opportunity to express themselves through the work they are engaged in, with people who have no place to go without representation in the general public. These work-related roles, from being the target of verbal abuse to trying to find alternative occupations to getting paid to be in the restaurant with your boss to the fact that your employer is hiring you to put on and run the restaurant when it comes time for you to be hired, can all contribute to a much more representative society. Many non-oppressed groups in society do not have the opportunity to represent themselves in ways that others have, and they are suffering. As the stories of many in the work force are exposing, these roles are beginning to seem a little overgrown due to the increased stigma that their voices are not a part of the general public.
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Women who are doing this work need to be willing to go on. And if they do, they need to find a way to express themselves. Women need to find a way, without fear, to not be excluded or excluded into special places that are not their best vantage points that they might find themselves there, without the burden and pressure with which other women are usually forced to endure.
If this is the place where you come to see the work that you are doing right now, which involves making demands, and that requires you to do it quickly as well as you can, you need to be prepared. In order to make this happen, for me, it is important for me to share what I have been told about this issue. The reality is that the problem with the media is not that it produces false news and that it is also an effective way for men to portray themselves in this way, but that it is also often used to make the very voices that they are hearing used to intimidate and marginalize their own, by making them invisible to many other people they don’t actually want to hear, such as their coworkers and bosses who they fear might be trying to pressure them into getting on the same issues as them.
The reality is that the media has a heavy hand in our own behavior in the form of harassment, exploitation and sexual abuse of women. This is how patriarchy was created as it was used to create women’s rights. It was the way men took advantage of the women, because men were not willing to pay women the things that women needed for their own advancement. The media is still not making progress, and only in different ways based on the experiences of others. If you want to make demands on any government agency to make you aware of what those government agencies are telling you, you must make demands. Demand has been shown to be a form of sexual violence and intimidation. The media is still failing at this problem, but at what rate? At what level did the media begin to take their requests and their sexual abuse very seriously and seriously into consideration on these issues?
We must ask ourselves again what it is that our
As defined in the text, Feminism is: “A political project that explores the diverse ways men and women are socially empowered or disempowered.” (Ott & Mack, p.178) The mainstream media generally like to delineate Active/Passive gender stereotypes, which can be viewed in todays society as degrading. The active side of the binary can be recognized as the typical working male, an active and strong member of society, working with tools and driving powerful vehicles. The passive side of the binary portrays women as weak and fragile, making it seem as though women are not biologically structured to take the roll of a man. “Most women who appear in the media are young, white, able-bodied, middle- class, apparently heterosexual and conventionally attractive.” (Gill, p.12) Thus, demonstrating the generalization of what is socially acceptable as a female gender role. In part 2 of the TV series The Honeymooners episode 3 The Golfer, the audience is presented with well- sized hard working man coming home from work to his wife waiting for him by the dinner table. This scene alone can be recognized as the man playing the active roll, and the woman playing the passive roll. As contrast, in the modernized TV series The King of Queens episode 11 Depo Man, the audience is shown Carrie the wife, coming in from a long day at work to her husband Doug waiting for her by the dinner table. It is clear that in The King of Queens, the gender roles are reversed, the man takes on the passive role whereas the woman takes on the active role. Such examples show us that not only are gender stereotypes present in media, but that feminist theory has developed to show equality between the sexes.
Some gender stereotypes can also be based on Public/Private relation spheres. Media has played a big roll in developing stereotypes that portray women as the nurturing housewives, while men are the hard workers that bring in the money. “And whatever you do, dont mention anything about me becoming the new assistant traffic manager to Norton, you know what a big blabber mouth he is, hell run home and tell Alice before I get a chance to.” (Frank Sataenstein, 1951) This quote, taken from The Honeymooners, exemplifies a perfect embodiment of the Public/Private stereotype. The public side of the binary for this specific example refers to the strong and active male character, considered to be the breadwinner for his family. The private side of the binary refers to the stay-at-home wife that has many responsibilities such as cooking, cleaning, and nurturing to do within a domestic private environment. Another example of the Public/Private binary can be seen in The Honeymooners, part 2 of episode 3 The Golfer, the stereotype is set on the fact that women are supposed to stay at home to nurture the family, clean, etc. Because of this there are not many scenes where the wife is outside of her home, thus bringing the private aspect of the binary into light. In newer TV series such as The King of Queens, plenty of scenes demonstrate the wife at work, at a restaurant, shopping, etc. Proving that although feminism is changing the media industry positively there are still gender stereotypes that are present.
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