Masculinity

About 6 years ago, perhaps one of the most impactful events has occurred in social media history: the creation of Instagram. No matter how many times I had deleted countless Instagram accounts to stay away from it, I always came back to it, impulsively wanting to show my life through aesthetic photos just like every other teenager wanted. Instagram’s popularity continually increased throughout the years, from creating ways for people to share their lives, to promoting a new era of the selfie…

visionaries could bring to light questions of social change. Embedded in the film Metropolis are strong themes indicative of the prevailing changes brought upon Weimar Germany with respect to gender roles. The loss of the First World War was a blow to masculinity, and the creation of a more liberal state enabled women to grasp more power in a previously male dominated society. Throughout the war, women were able to occupy positions in the public sphere that had previously been withheld from…

Bonnie Schmidt’s The Greatest Man-Catcher of All : The First Female Mounties, the Media, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (2011) gives her readers an insight of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) program during the 1970s. She highlights the struggles that women face to get enrolled into the police force. The RCMP in the 1970s was consisted of mostly male and the images that RCMP promoted was masculinized. Meaning, emphasis was placed on what an the valued and traits a male police…

Gungor seems to be using the biological approach to differentiate between males and females in this film because he’s explaining the differences between each gender based on brain activity. The content of the presentation supports gender myths in that it is reinforcing the typical stereotypes we associate with males and females. Females are considered more emotional, while men are considered more straightforward. This can be true in most cases, but researchers have gone back and forth over the…

The shorty story “The Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck, deals with a person who is at odds with an unjust society. The story is about Elisa Allen who is unsatisfied with current life. Elisa’s frustration stems from not having a child and that her husband fails to appreciate her passionately as a woman (Kennedy). To ease her frustration, Elisa nurtures flowers in her garden where she grows chrysanthemums. The chrysanthemums are Steinbeck’s symbol for Elisa’s inner self and the inner self of…

Scholars have long attempted to justify the prevalence of the occult in Guiney’s works without damaging the legacy of her self-professed Catholic faith. In her memorial-biography of Guiney, Alice Brown asserts that while Guiney was definitely “Christian in belief, she was pagan in the listening nerves of her” (Brown 507) a statement with which Brown says Guiney agreed (506), but never fully asserts how or why that is the case. Henry Fairbanks says much the same in his biography of Guiney,…

the impression that Old Spice assumed that their viewers were predominately straight men and women. Likewise, the ad declared that their competitor brands smelled unmanly compared to Old Spice's body wash, which supposedly exuded the fragrance of masculinity. Those were illogical claims that lacked reliable evidence, and also conveyed the assumption that viewers valued their appearance to the level of unrestrained obsession. Old Spice attempted to use the rich scenery as enough evidence to back…

think there will ever be a piece of paper that will be able to tell people what gender they are. I think a person is whatever gender they truly identify with and it doesn’t matter what any outside source says. I also don’t think that categorizing masculinity and femininity is even necessary. I think that people should just strive within themselves or raised their children to be good and moral people. I don’t think that anyone really needs to feel that their personality must fit into a specific…

I really do not find this ironic at all coming from a female author. But now coming from this female author now let’s go ahead and not only neuter the English language on gender and strip gender roles ... let’s just go ahead and take the next step and neuter every male in America. And when you do... here is something that will not surprise me in the future of all females and it is only going to take one female and that is all it is going to take to ask ; Where is the Male Chivalry and / or…

The slender form of a female figure can be seen, which deviates from the traditional masculinity of the male form of statutes made in the patriarchal tradition. The presentation of female breasts and the slender legs and hips of Hatshepsut’s form present a transition away from the gender confusion of “Pharaoh Hatshepsut (CA.1475-1450), which…