Female hysteria

an insult in today’s society. #LikeAGirl shows several girls and some boys being questioned about the phrase “like a girl”. #LikeAGirl clearly shows how a girl’s self-esteem diminishes as she hits puberty and is subjected to society’s views on the female gender and how wrong that is. In the beginning of the commercial, older girls and a few boys are asked to demonstrate what “running like a girl” looks like. All of the participants pretend to run in a very ‘girly’, weak way. The commercial…

assert her innocence in a matter that they cannot truly understand, Sabrina emerges to prove that feminine strength can still exist even if a woman’s virtue is compromised as long as she can recognize her own chastity. The Lady needs the approval of a female character that can declare her chastity without condemning any loss of sexual innocence, and for this reason, the brothers and the Attendant Spirit can drive away Comus, but they cannot rescue the Lady from her imprisonment. Sabrina…

population density, as these variable were positively correlated. Lifetime reproductive success was measured by how many offspring were produced by a wolf during its lifetime. Age of first reproduction was monitored and known for 52 males and 53 females. In account to the age of first reproduction, whether the individual had helpers or not and its mass and size were taken into…

“Since this restaurant is heavily sport based, I think we have more female waitresses than male waiters. We have maybe two male waiters, I think, but mostly we have only females serving our customers” (Spause). Mostly accommodating to the male population sports bars tend to have strictly females greeting and serving customers. Now if the customers treat the waitresses right is a different story. “He slapped my friends’ ass on her…

Unlike in some developing countries, there is no strong gender preference for male or female offspring in !Kung society. When Nisa’s mother gave birth to Nisa’s little brother, she told Nisa that she would kill him because she thought Nisa was too small and to young to be weaned. When Nisa ran back to the village to tell her aunt, her aunt…

to manhood through the completion of manhood acts and homosocial interaction, including emotional detachment, sexual objectification of women, and competition. According to Schrock and Schwalbe, there’s a biological difference between a male and female that results in the categorization into two different groups (Schrock and Schwalbe…

the female monster is horrifying in relation to her sexuality. The horror genre has frequently perpetuated patriarchal ideologies with scenes objectifying women using the ‘male gaze’ and punishing women for any kind of sexuality. Brian de Palma’s 1976 film adaption of Stephen King’s novel Carrie is no different. Although marketed to young women, Carrie is fraught with female objectification and fetishization with an overall lack of progressive female characters. It would seem having a female…

perspective to be a male in our society today means one has to maintain power. On the other hand to be a female in our world mean you don’t really have much to do or say with respect to some women. However it should be the other way around. Women hold the key to the world. In Margaret Atwood’s essay “The Female Body” she identifies the clear difference between male and female, “Each female body contains a female brain. Handy. Makes things work. Stick pins in it and you get amazing results. Old…

(2015) on postpartum female rats finds that dams entered open arms more than nulliparous rats. Fish et al. (2006) find a differential gene expression in female rats based on whether or not they were licked as pups. However, there are no studies that take sex into consideration when looking at the effects of handling on anxiety level. The goal of this study is to determine the effects of handling and sex on anxiety level by testing rats in an elevated plus maze. If a female rat is handled it will…

for us because we are male or female. The path laid out for both the male and female gender in China is very obvious. Males in China are much more wanted in the country than females are. Many males in China’s culture are raised as single children and are very spoiled and get almost anything they want. The males are treated this way because they are then expected to stay with the family to take care of the elders later in life. Males are also wanted more than females because they are to…