Gender Inequality In Popular Culture

Gender through the lens of socialization is a process in which individuals become gendered. According to Kimmel, “We acquire our gender identity through socialization, and afterward, we are socialized to behave in a masculine and feminine way (Kimmel, 2013, p.131),” hence we’re always “doing our gender,” performing and evolving as the political, economic, and social standards change. There are several institutions that contribute to masculinity and femininity, and how members of each group carry out their gender role. Like, media, for example, is one of the biggest culprit of gender normalities and stereotypes. Through popular culture, time after time, what is means to be a man or what it means to be women is redefined, and we cultivate these ideas to perform our gender. The flaw in this concept is that it assumes that there are only one masculinity and femininity, which is typically the most privileged …show more content…
Inequality is created through the institutionalized legacy of both a female and male, which in return creates the difference and in those difference are what tension among the genders. However, the difference lies between the lines where in the first song, Itsy, Bitsy, Teenie, Weenie, Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini, is more about the sexualization of women and "Papa Kehte" is about the male legacy of becoming successful and powerful. Both of these songs portray stereotypes of what femininity is and what masculinity is. For women in itsy, bitsy, teenie, weenie, yellow polka-dot bikini, are displayed as someone who isn 't sure of herself and has to rely on subject perspectives to validate herself. In "Papa Kehte," males have to burden the responsibility of honouring the family’s name and finding his way of “becoming” a man in a way that would fulfill his male