A Serious Man

and people who once identified a certain way can change too. All in all, I definitely enjoyed the event and felt comfortable being there too, although the topics being addressed were serious and hard to watch at times, it was still very interesting. I thoroughly enjoyed watching a performance that has a more serious tone because all I've ever watched were happy musicals in the past. Ultimately, what stood out to me the most was the format of the play. I found the idea of doing the play out of…

Simple Minds: A Deeper Look at Gender Roles For many, high school is either the best or worst time of their life. In John Hughes’ The Breakfast Club, he brings to life the reality and struggles of being a young man or woman. In the movie, gender roles (standards set by society for what is “normal” for a particular gender) are set by adults in a position of power. As teenagers from all over the country absorb these labels, it sets minors up for who they will become in the future; whether that…

individual in a group of people. “The alpha male posturing, so familiar to young men out in public space, has been a staple of masculine behavior for decades” (Moss, 2012, p. 14). Alpha m. embraces this idea of the alpha male, but he believes that a man can be an alpha while also interested in his appearance. Alpha m.’s channel, like Studio5ive.com, a website for male cosmetics studied by Claire Harrison, aims to target men who “posses or want to posses a ‘sense of style and image awareness’”…

During the time of the Athenians back in the fifth century, stereotypes were prominent amongst men and women, specifically amongst time of war. Aristophanes’ Lysistrata is a comedic play during the Peloponnesian War that is ripe with these stereotypes, providing further insight into the timeliness of human sexuality, desire, and the war of the sexes. The traditional role of women and their appetites during this time period was humorous compared to the duties of men. Women enjoyed parties,…

women are required to be modest, chaste and virtuous, then men must be held to the same standards. Wollstonecraft continues by saying that though men are not punished by society for acting contrary to some of these principles as women are, there are serious moral and societal consequences for both men and women when the concept of manhood lacks responsibility. She writes in the dedication of the text that men should be taught “not only to respect modesty in women, but to acquire it themselves”…

is what keeps the sizzle in a relationship. In this situation, it is perhaps even more important to maintain your flirting know-how. Guys love girls who flirt. Flirting is a way to show your sense of fun as well as your intelligence. There isn’t a man alive who doesn’t appreciate a girl who is flirtatious. Most of us want to flirt with…

front and center. Their existence is considered shocking in some way as in ‘why would someone give up being a man to become a woman,’ so this is deemed ‘newsworthy.’ Trans women are really only portrayed two-dimensionally in the media, most of the time existing only as subjects of hate crimes and their existence seeming irrelevant and confusing. This is displayed in news titles such as: “Man Dressed as Woman Found Dead.” Trans women are displayed only as archetypes in our media rather than just…

throughout the series. The show I have chosen to focus and pin points the stereotypic act is from “The Rescue Heroes and The Family guy.” The first series is about a group of males who travels around the nations rescuing lives from both natural and man-made artificial disasters. Further, it teaches the people proper safety techniques and how to deal with various problems/troubles that they might face during their day to day life. For example, what to do if fire danger occurs expectedly and so…

beginning, a boy starting to become a man and by the end, he is a man with responsibilities. Adam Cooper is the main protagonist in the story, he is a boy that wants to be treated like a man. Being a man lets you think for yourself and make your own decisions. Adam is not able to do that in the beginning of this book. When Adam’s mother tells him that a boy should be reading the bible in his free time, she is treating him like a boy in that aspect, because a man should be able to make his…

not begin too early. Yam stood for manliness, and he who could feed his family on yams from one gravest to another was a very great man indeed. Okonkwo wanted his son to be a great farmer and a great man. He would stamp out the disquieting signs of laziness which he thought he already saw in him.” This shows how Okonkwo associates yams with manliness. The more yams a man is able to grow, the more respected he is in his village. This shows that men are judged in part by their ability to provide…