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    The Nature-Nurture Debate

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    This theory also looks into gender roles and the difference in the upbringing of males and females. The behaviour demonstrated by both young boys and girls is either encouraged or discouraged based upon the action fulfilled and this reinforcement can either be demonstrated subtly or in a more severe manner. This is known as motivational learning and reinforcement. This theory also looks into the portrayal of both males and females in the media and its effects on gender development (Gross, 2010).…

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    construct instead of a science classification. In the 1970’s, the female body was explained in terms of how the male body was perceived, for example: in texts written by the Ancient Greeks would refer the female genitals, the ovaries as the “female testicle”, as it used the male organs to lead every description. The illustrations that were shown of the female genitalia very closely resembled the male penis and someone could believe that there really is no difference between the two genders, as…

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    Guilty Not Guilty Found in the November 2017 issue of InStyle magazine, Gucci Guilty, by Gucci, sells the basic eurocentric sex appeal to women if you buy this perfume. The advertisers use various visual techniques to suggest that it’s okay to bide into your deepest desire and note feel guilty about doing it. This appeal targets women who want a more entertaining sex life. Based where I found this ad, this magazine is often read by 25 years old and above which makes the ad semi-effective.…

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    story, they are supposed to be the ones being rescued. It is hard enough for teenage girls who are going through puberty, but even harder when they are exposed to certain biases throughout the media. In an ad by Always, they ask a group of average male and female teenagers to run like a girl, fight like a girl, and throw like a girl. The teens demonstrated that they viewed girls as being weak and irrational. Then, they asked a different group of young girls the same questions. The girls ran…

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    Just as in Miss Representation, Tough Guise 2 evaluates the effect of a toxic gender hierarchy portrayed in American media. However, this documentary focuses more on the male experience and how constructs and scripts of masculinity can affect them throughout their lives. While girls contend with images of Barbie Malibu as the standard of feminine appearance, boys are shown a GI Joe with biceps that measure even larger than Dwayne Johnson’s as the ideal standard of physical masculinity.…

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    (Gilmore 1993). This kind of behavior can be seen in the popular TV show How I Met Your Mother. In an article written by Lauren Thompson, she uses the television show How I Met Your Mother as a study to explore and expose the male conflicted nature of masculinity. The male character can be seen as examples of dominant, residual, and emergent formations of masculine identity (Thompson 2015). Thompson describes how the narrative and production designed different versions of masculinity. This…

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    The Origins of Male Dominance Throughout thousands of years, many different societies have formed and flourished with men and women holding equal roles in the advancement of society. However, in virtually every society to date, men have considered themselves superior to women. This idea exists as one of the most expressive and common aspects of human culture. Masculinity takes on the dominant characteristic during the early twentieth century in the tribes of the lower Niger, the setting of…

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    The article “Sex, Lies and Conversation” by Deborah Tannen illustrates several points about the differences and similarities between the conversational techniques of men and women of varying ages. In her article, she mentions how men and women have different expectations of what a conversationalist is supposed to do, one of them being that women “assume a conversationalist's job is to express agreement and support” (para 19) meanwhile men “see their conversational duty as pointing out the other…

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    happen to anyone, no matter what age or gender. This problem in our country is not getting better, and may be getting worse. This behavior from men is not only ignored in our society—it is accepted and even expected. There needs to be education for the male student population about what specifically constitutes sexual assault and how they should treat women and maybe one day, a woman might actually say that she feels completely safe on her college…

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    Xander Jones 4th Period 9-8-17 Comparative Analysis of “Are Women Really More Talkative Than Men?” and “Our Barbies, Ourselves”. “Our Barbies, Ourselves” by Emily Prager, and “Are Women Really More Talkative Than Men?” by Matthias R. Mehl et al., both offer their perspective on gender and stereotypes in society, while taking widely varied approaches at doing so. The main similarities between “Our Barbies, Ourselves” and “Are Women Really More Talkative Than Men?” are that they…

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