Chapter Four: The Encounter “Ma’am… Ma’am, you dropped your wallet!” said Ben. Delilah suddenly flips around and sees Ben’s face. She couldn’t believe her eyes and neither could he. They two both just stood there in shock, but suddenly Delilah ran up to ben and hugged him, all the feelings were flooding back. Their past wounds were reopening. Delilah was glad to see him just as Ben was glad to see Delilah when he first saw her on the night the two parted. “How are you?!” Delilah asked as she…
as adopting the traditional portrait of femininity and masculinity. We are taught to believe in the stereotypical ideas of how someone should look like, remembering to fall in between the margins of society, either categorized as a strong, powerful man or a weak, delicate woman. Pantene’s “Whip It” commercial challenges the traditional American gender…
An effective advertisement works best when it strikes a chord in the needs and desires of the receiving consumer – a connection that can be both intuitive and highly calculated. How to appeal to men vs. women? They respond to different stimuli, absorb different details and make decisions in very different ways. Successful advertising means knowing how to communicate effectively to men and women, realizing their differences. Studying data about how men and women respond and interact with ads is…
masculine content in order to entertain their audience. However, for women to be taken somewhat seriously within the entertainment industry they either have to resemble a sex symbol or a “dykey” masculine figure that emulates the characteristics of a man. According to Stanley, “Women either had to compete—head-on, in the aggressive style of Paula Poundstone or Lisa Lampanelli—or subvert the form and make themselves offbeat and likable, the way that Whoopi Goldberg and Ellen DeGeneres do. As…
A man who is afraid of asking a woman out on a date may drink this beer after he sees the ad because he will relate the ad to the situation. If he drinks Primus beer he will be carefree and have no worries just like the group on the makeshift raft and will…
movie industry has made a shift to seem more gender neutral. However, underneath the façade of equality, movies like Monster-in-Law have anti-feminist undertones. It has anti-feminist undertones such as women's lesser job status, the need to have a man in a woman's life, the over-focus on a woman's body, and the lack of relationships between women. Monster-in-Law perpetuates the gender stereotype that women are lesser than men. Monster-in-Law, the 2005 rom-com from director Robert Luketic, tells…
What makes a man a man, and how does a man keep his alpha role? A male’s masculinity is elusive as it is undefinable throughout the changing ages of society and the cultures within. It is a tedious societal process that is taught to boys from a young age that to be a man, they need to act the part of one. Whether it be through the way how they dress to the toys they play with as children, men have been placed into a role that separates them not only from their female counterparts but from…
Women Are Humans Too Since the early ancient times, women’s positions were described by their relationship to men. A woman was in second place after men in all fields. Moreover, women have been considered not only rationally weaker to men but also a major problem, as it is a way to lose the control over desires and temptations, which leads to evil. As a result, women did not get the chance to be part of the community making change toward success. Shakespeare in his play Hamlet, tackled this…
Sidney Duarte Mrs. Huddleston English 12AP Gender Studies & Queer Theory: Paul's Case From the second wave of feminism emerged a new school of criticism: gender studies and queer theory. This type of criticism explores the issues of gender roles, power, sexuality, and masculinity. In "Paul's Case", Willa Cather establishes a male character who tests the accepted norms for men and women in America; Paul's sexual orientation results in apathy for his community, contempt for his teachers, and an…
Through this book, we come back to the main base of the where female masculinity came about from, the basic difference between a man and a woman. The reason one hears more about men being feminine rather than woman being masculine is an indication to the stratification of hierarchy between the two genders. The male gender has always been at the upper ladder of the hierarchy and hence…