Everyday people see thousands of advertisements, tv shows, movies, and more and they all seem to try and sell the public the same types of messages. Girls should act one way and guys should act another, and if you don’t, you’re not normal. There are different themes of femininity and masculinity that people can either perform or decide not to. Many movies will show these themes which may not stick out to the viewer unless they are watching for them. One of those movies, even though it is Korean, is Train to Busan. Even though it is a Korean movie, Train to Busan shows the same themes of masculinity and femininity that are shown in the United States and how intersectionality can affect every part of life.
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Intersectionality itself is how the way people define themselves intertwine to shape who we are as a person and how we live our lives. These different categories that people are put under can give either advantages or disadvantages. These categories include race, sex, gender, class, religion, and ability. With these different intersections, people have to adopt different gender strategies to live there life how they want with the stereotypes associated to who they are. Coulter gives some examples of how people try to use these strategies. Black men are seen as hypermasculine, so they are perceived as violent and aggressive, and to combat this the try to use a strategy of a gentle black man instead so people will think they are not aggressive. For gays and lesbians, there is the all-but-heterosexual strategy so they will “blend in” to the heteronormative culture and how straight people act, but they are actually gay (3-5-18). These strategies are used to help people do gender the way they want …show more content…
This may have been a fictional film about zombies, but it still was able to display how people can conform to these themes or stray away from them and how intersectionality weaves itself into the mix. These themes can be confusing and don’t seem to be helping anything, so why do we still have them and still conform to them? Maybe people are still just scared to be seen as different or weird, but I think that as a society we don’t really need these themes. People should not be judged on if they acted feminine as a female or masculine as a male but they should be judged on their character and whether or not they are a good
The themes of femininity have to be …show more content…
Intersectionality itself is how the way people define themselves intertwine to shape who we are as a person and how we live our lives. These different categories that people are put under can give either advantages or disadvantages. These categories include race, sex, gender, class, religion, and ability. With these different intersections, people have to adopt different gender strategies to live there life how they want with the stereotypes associated to who they are. Coulter gives some examples of how people try to use these strategies. Black men are seen as hypermasculine, so they are perceived as violent and aggressive, and to combat this the try to use a strategy of a gentle black man instead so people will think they are not aggressive. For gays and lesbians, there is the all-but-heterosexual strategy so they will “blend in” to the heteronormative culture and how straight people act, but they are actually gay (3-5-18). These strategies are used to help people do gender the way they want …show more content…
This may have been a fictional film about zombies, but it still was able to display how people can conform to these themes or stray away from them and how intersectionality weaves itself into the mix. These themes can be confusing and don’t seem to be helping anything, so why do we still have them and still conform to them? Maybe people are still just scared to be seen as different or weird, but I think that as a society we don’t really need these themes. People should not be judged on if they acted feminine as a female or masculine as a male but they should be judged on their character and whether or not they are a good