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Lakoff makes an argument demonstrating the manner in which expletives in varying strengths are generally perceived and when they are considered socially acceptable (284-5). Particles such as "darn", "oh dear", and "goodness" are described as weaker expletives while words such as "shit" and "damn" are described as stronger expletives. She further explains that while weaker expletives are typically considered socially acceptable when women use them (but only when the situation is not a serious…

Men. They are meant to be strong, tough, confident, masculine. A man is not their true self if they lack any of these qualities. When a man has lost all of these qualities, something is terribly wrong. Chief Bromden, the part Native American narrator of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, written by Ken Kesey, is a patient at a psychiatric hospital in Oregon and has been there for the past ten years. He only suffers from hallucinations, but also pretends to be deaf and dumb. He had always been…

Gender Roles In our society, men and women are assigned different roles. However, it is not significant that men cannot do something that women do and women cannot do something that men do. Normally, gender role is a term which is used to identify how males and females in our society should think, act, dress up, communicate or interact with anyone. They are based on cultural and personal experiences. In our society, both men and women have different roles which make us think about how we treat…

better. Not apologizing as often as the opposite sex may be because they have the mindset of blaming the other person rather than accepting the fault (Tannen). In the article written by Tannen, it speaks about a scenario in a different country with an American driver and a Japanese driver. In this situation, if both drivers were from Japan, both of the people would get out of their vehicles and bow, which would mean both parties were claiming responsibility. This shows a difference in men around…

In feminist ideologies, the male gaze is the act of presenting women as objects of pleasure, from the perspective of heterosexual males. The male gaze is internationally prevalent throughout the history of art and film. The gender power asymmetry that dominated the nineteenth-century was a commanding force in how artists catered to the male viewer. This only further encouraged the pre-existing patriarchal ideologies and discourses. A Roman Slave Market by Jean-Leon Gerome will be formally…

Gender is how humans differentiate other humans from each other; boys love playing with toy cars, girls love the color pink and playing with dolls. These stereotypes along with many, many more, define gender; but what happens when a little boy likes playing with dolls more than his toy cars, and as he gets older, realizes that he identifies more with being a girl? Growing up being told you should act a certain way and like certain things that correlate with your assigned gender can be very…

life as a man. In Judith Butler’s Undoing Gender, she considers how desires and gender are navigated by norms that are already set (7). This prohibits self-constructed desires to be formed. Laurence was stuck living as a man because she was born as a male, but then decides to make her own path to follow forcing her to let go of her…

14.9% of Californians are Asian, while 25% of New Yorkers are African American, both of which make up 19% of the United States population. Rules of the Game by Amy Tan is about a young chinese girl named Waverly who ends up becoming a national chess champion. Thank You Ma’am by Langston Hughes is about an African American boy named Roger who tries to steal a woman’s purse, and ends up learning some very important life lessons from her. In Rules of the Game, Waverly’s mother is a recent immigrant…

Ai and Estraven, along with the rest of the people of Gethen in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness, struggle at times to understand each other's different genders, sexualities, and cultures. Ai’s sexuality and gender are the same as the average human on Earth, while the people of Gethen are androgynes and only have a gender during their one week mating period, called kemmer, each month. Le Guin is using Ai, Estraven, and the people of Gethen to illustrate how people with varying…

People have a fascination with monkeys and the interest in monkeys is generally due to the similarities they share. What's more interesting is the differences between different categories of monkeys; Old World monkeys and New World monkeys. It’s interesting that many differences arise between Old World monkeys and New World monkeys from generation to generation. Differences such as their anatomy, geography and group sizes are found in each subgroup. The struggle with distinguishing New World…