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Hispanic women on television are mostly portrayed as sexy or fiesty and the roles they play are stereotypical such as maids and housewives. When called sexy, one may easily take it as a compliment but when it is consistently portrayed in the media, it’s an objectification of the Hispanic woman for her body and sensuality. The small representation is not even the worst part of Latinos/Latinas in the media, the negative portrayals and encouraging stereotypes are. “Latinos are likely to find…

Girls are entitled to play the same sports as boys. This generation is about equality and what are we teaching if we separate genders. Not as many girls play sports as boys do and I think that if we made more sports co-educational then more girls would have the motive to do sports. Competing against each other would bring out more passion of working harder for girls. This integration would prepare both genders to work in adult life where nothing is separated. Many more girls would compete…

Gender is defined as the socially produced differences between feminine and masculine, while, sex is defined as the biological differences between males and females (Mary Holmes 2007) . It was crucial to separate the definitions of gender and sex for this research. In my research, while the majority of my participants are cis-gender, I also interviewed queer people. Therefore, gender dynamics is not defined as the way cis-gender people interact, but the way that people of different genders…

I found that males--on average--have higher vital capacities and estimated vital capacities than females. I was expecting this result as women’s lungs tend to be around 10% smaller than males (Bellamere, Sex differences in thoracic dimensions and configuration). What surprised me was that the average of females’ actual vital capacities were closer to the estimated ones than the males’. I thought they would be about the same, but amount of exercise and the…

Speaker, Anita Sarkeesian, in her video, Women As a Background Decoration, describes how women in video games are hyper-sexualized and most often recipients of violence. Sarkeesian’s purpose is to point out how women are portrayed as a “Non-Playable Sexual Object” and often degraded. She does an exemplary job at being effective in her argument by appealing to the three main rhetorical strategies and the specific language and style of her piece. Sarkeesian begins her video by firstly…

Comparatively, I found more evidence of female stereotypes in general versus male stereotypes in the media. Most of my sources were from television series on the CW network. I may be biased by my personal taste in shows, but looking into other sources also showed little male stereotypes. An observation I noticed was that female characters had more of one defining feature or personality trait. On several television series I saw a span of character traits for male roles. The male roles went from…

this Connect to your World Activity I found two different articles about sexism and racism in STEM fields. The first article I found was about sexism in peer reviewing, and suggesting a male co-author would improve the work. The second being about sex and race determining how much you will get paid in the medical field. The first article from The Washington Post was titled, “Sexism In Science: Peer Editor Tells Female Researchers Their Study Needs A Male Author”. This article was about two…

wet seasons during a time when resources are abundant, so the diet of young monkeys starts off with insects and progresses to fruits once the seasons change (Pinheiro et al., 2013). Although I couldn’t find studies that referred to the diet based on sex, I would imagine that female squirrel monkeys would eat more than males during time of pregnancy to support the health of the…

The top of the statue is the head of the Hatshepsut. Unfortunately, the majority of the head was destroyed, and there is only a little part of the headdress and an ear left. The headdress that on the back of the head seems like an arch or half round. The statue is not realistic because although the ear was connected to the face, it was carved out of the headdress. Also, the ear of the statue was too high, and it should be the same level of the eyes if it is a realistic sculpture. On the neck of…

League of Legends is an extremely popular multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) genre video game developed by Riot Games in Santa Monica, California. There are three different game modes players can choose to play: Classic, Dominion, and All-Random-All-Middle (commonly referred to as ARAM). In the Classic game mode, there are two different maps players can choose to play on: Summoner’s Rift, the largest map in the game, in which each team nexus, the essential goal in the Classic games, is…