Mia Caine
Mr.Sullivan
AP language & composition
11 January, 2017
Gender Essay
Emotion is an instinctive state of mind deriving from one’s circumstances, mood, or relationships with others. Essentially it is how someone is feeling in certain situations based on their surrounding environment. So why does media have such a big impact on how we think different genders should showcase emotion?
It has become a common stereotype that women should show their emotions to the public more openly than men. In some cases media shows how women are more emotional and display that as a negative quality. For example, the movie “ How To Lose a Guy in Ten Days” starring Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey is a film about …show more content…
For instance in the romantic movie “ The Notebook” with Ryan Gosling and Rachel Mcadams it shows how a man (Noah) pines after a girl (Allie) for almost his entire life. He displays an array of emotions throughout the film for the public eye to see. The audience sees him joyful, upset, enraged, disappointed, and in love. While the girl shows emotion as well, because it is from his point of view, the viewer sees the a prime example of what happens when men don’t cry behind closed doors. Additionally, in the classic Disney movie “Snow White” there are seven dwarfs that Snow White ends up living with. Some of the dwarfs such as Happy, Grumpy, and Bashful are even named after the emotions that they display throughout the movie. And even the ones who are not named after emotions (Doc, Sneezy, Sleepy, and Dopey) still shed many tears, along with the other three dwarfs, after she eats the poison apple and dies. Even the prince, who is only in the film towards the end, shows passion and happiness for Snow White when he manages to wake her up. Another thing to consider is that in the movie Mean Girls, it shows the most extreme levels of emotions. I can say for a fact after going through the high school experience, everything in that film is dramatized and teenage girls do not act like that. Even in personal experience I have seen a grown man cry. I have seen
Mr.Sullivan
AP language & composition
11 January, 2017
Gender Essay
Emotion is an instinctive state of mind deriving from one’s circumstances, mood, or relationships with others. Essentially it is how someone is feeling in certain situations based on their surrounding environment. So why does media have such a big impact on how we think different genders should showcase emotion?
It has become a common stereotype that women should show their emotions to the public more openly than men. In some cases media shows how women are more emotional and display that as a negative quality. For example, the movie “ How To Lose a Guy in Ten Days” starring Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey is a film about …show more content…
For instance in the romantic movie “ The Notebook” with Ryan Gosling and Rachel Mcadams it shows how a man (Noah) pines after a girl (Allie) for almost his entire life. He displays an array of emotions throughout the film for the public eye to see. The audience sees him joyful, upset, enraged, disappointed, and in love. While the girl shows emotion as well, because it is from his point of view, the viewer sees the a prime example of what happens when men don’t cry behind closed doors. Additionally, in the classic Disney movie “Snow White” there are seven dwarfs that Snow White ends up living with. Some of the dwarfs such as Happy, Grumpy, and Bashful are even named after the emotions that they display throughout the movie. And even the ones who are not named after emotions (Doc, Sneezy, Sleepy, and Dopey) still shed many tears, along with the other three dwarfs, after she eats the poison apple and dies. Even the prince, who is only in the film towards the end, shows passion and happiness for Snow White when he manages to wake her up. Another thing to consider is that in the movie Mean Girls, it shows the most extreme levels of emotions. I can say for a fact after going through the high school experience, everything in that film is dramatized and teenage girls do not act like that. Even in personal experience I have seen a grown man cry. I have seen