Gender-neutral toilet

When you picture a cologne advertisement, do you imagine half naked people or something else? In this ad, we clearly see two half naked people and some very suggestive text for what it means to wear this type of cologne. Your eyes are drawn to the top of the ad where you can see the text and the woman posing in a very suggestive, enticing, and sexually inviting way by showing the viewers her behind. She’s wearing little clothing and as your eyes travel further down you can see a half naked man…

the other hand, there is no mistaking what gender is targeted when boys and girls could switch the toys to play together. It is a time that the toys are not distinguished for girls or boys anymore. It is more important to teach children about the inspiration in what they are learning while playing. The commercial above shows the opposite direction of…

Both, Ibsen and Stenson, challenge the audience’s expectations of marriage through the supporting characters. Both, Nora and the Narrator, have little control over their lives and the family’s finances due to their dominating husbands whom embody the views and values of the 1800s. Both husbands, Torvald of A Doll’s House and John of The Yellow Wallpaper undermine their wives and patronize them by calling them childish names. John calls the Narrator, ‘blessed little goose’ and similarly Torvald…

Paragraph 1 Fawlty tower’s is a famous British television sitcom that invokes several different types of satirical and sarcastic types of humour. Thanks to the use of this humour the t.v. series was slowly gaining popularity and became known as one of the ‘’greats’’. Fawlty tower’s has been around for over fifty years, but back when the series was still irrelevant it was listed as the number one British and thanks to this the series is noted as a legend. The show also includes a questionable…

Wording, clothing, and sex were some of the most reoccurring problems the Production Code Administration had with Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 film Rear Window. Throughout their communications, the PCA and the filmmakers discuss scenes that have subtle sexual undertones, risqué costumes, and wordings that the PCA found to be unacceptable. The correspondence between the filmmakers and the PCA begin around November 1953 and go on until around April 1954. Most of the letters are between Paramount…

“It was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy” (10). “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman describes a woman’s descent into madness. Narrated by the main character, the reader is given an insight into each change her character experiences. Isolated and patronized, the narrator becomes obsessed with a certain aspect of her temporary home. She faces an overwhelming amount of opposition from her husband which produces feelings of loneliness,…

Loneliness is like hunger, a hunger that is caused by the lack of fulfillment in one’s life. Just like hunger can cause a desperation for food, loneliness creates a longing for attention. In Of Mice and Men, Curley’s wife finds herself in a sense of despair because of the lack of interest possessed in her, resulting from the resentment and possessive attitude towards women, derived from society. John Steinbeck examines the desperation and loneliness of Curley’s wife in order to criticize how…

In the article Seneca Falls Women’s Right convention the author, Judith Wellman speaks about the main causes she believes lead to the Seneca Falls Woman’s rights convention. This convention symbolized the first modern protest for woman’s rights and Wellman uses facts from the article to support her argument. For instance, Wellman states that there are three major reform organizations that pushed the people into networks before the Seneca Falls convention formed. The author identifies these…

one gender will be in a class together, have at Public School 140. According to the National Association for Single-Sex Public Education, Public School 140, which started as an experiment in 2008, was among 445 widespread schools that were examining the effects of separation students depend on their gender. Some critics of single-sex classrooms argue that single-sex education is risky because it does not improve the test scores for some grades such as fifth grade and it might reinforce gender…

Identity is a person 's sense of self-awareness. The terms “gender” and “sex” are often used interchangeably, however, the two words have significantly different definitions. Sex can be argued to refer to the biological essentialism and the idea that we are who we are because of our genetics. On the other hand, gender is associated with the social constructionist theory, presented by Jeffrey Weeks, arguing that the way we are depends on our race, class, and sexuality. Every individual is…