Assignment 3: Patriarchy Bingo

Exercise #3: Patriarchy BINGO For B1 the example that I found came from a magazine that I receive every month it was basically an advertisement for a pair of heels by a brand called Stuart Weitzman. The image is of three young models who are naked promoting heels. The models are covering each other's private parts with each others body. Meaning that they are standing in a certain angle covering themselves with each other arms (hugging), because they are hugging themselves. It is an example of gender act on the BINGO board,because the act is promoting a non-sexual product by sexualizing women in the form that all three of the young models are naked only wearing those shoes. There are different ways of promoting shoes, but having naked models …show more content…
What I read was that the offender Brock Turner, was released from jail after only serving three months in jail for sexual assault. This is an example or gender act on the BINGO board, because Brock Turner was released three months early, and given a lighter sentence for sexual assault. This is not only a gender problem but a race problem as well, because given that he is a white and was attending an Ivy league in which he played a sport for. His crime was made seem like a mistake and not seen as serious problem, because he was good student who made a mistake but raping someone isn’t a mistake. For G1 an activity that I found was the distinction that there is between the NBA and WNBA. I noticed this awhile I go on my own while I was watching the NBA Finals in June, and a commercial came on about WNBA league. This a good example of a gender act, because it is making a clear distinction between the leagues because the NBA is not called National Men Basketball Association but for the women it is called Women's National Basketball Association. For me at least it is creating an image that men sports are better, and making it seem like women sports aren’t as important or interesting because even ticket prices for both leagues are different. For the women league tickets are cheaper but for the men league tickets are more expensive and difficult to attain, because everyone wants to …show more content…
I also learned that society has a way of making a clear distinction between male and women activities. Making male activities more attractive than women activities even though they are both the same the only difference is the gender. Even when applying laws males especially those of a certain race (white) and from a high class are left of the hook easily for their crimes against women. It’s like harder to get a fair sentence specially those involving rape or violence against women. I do feel like items on column O were a bit more harder to find, because men are hardly ever thought as being victims of our society. Even then some of the things men do just like talking about women bad, or sexually is seen acceptable by our society but if the gender were to be switched it would be looked as bad. I feel like gender is still an issue in society, because men are always portrayed as better than women when it comes to sports, politics, and a wage gap. It’s like male labor is seen as more important in society than women labor or accomplishments. A lot of it has to do with our sources of social media, because men are always portrayed as having a certain roles and in some senses are talked about nicer. Women on the other hand if you are sexually attractive or beautiful than you aren’t really talked about in media. Male’s definitely have more power still