Tina Fey

search for leadership roles, she was. The fact that she always wore pantsuits, unlike other first ladies, came into question. She broke barriers for women, and in a sense made it okay to be the stereotypical “bossy”. On a Saturday night Live segment Tina Fey in regard to Hillary Clinton…

“By the beginning of its second season, Saturday Night Live was the talk of television, a national sensation both hot and cool, and the first hit any network ever had at eleven-thirty on Saturday night” (Shales, Miller, 95). From young adults to the senile, Saturday Night Live has had people laughing for nearly forty-one years! This weekly show will go down in television history as one of the most iconic productions of the twentieth and twenty-first century. With every great show comes a great…

in support of minorities such as the lgbt community and this has shaped my worldview on the value of support and especially of the impact the support can make. Saturday Night Live is another place that I gained feminist views from. Amy Poehler and Tina Fey are two of my biggest role models as they are very strong women who don’t take shit from anyone and they have helped me to place value on myself and become a strong leader myself. Entertainment is such an important thingpasstime in my life…

When Gershon Legman first made the claim that women were the “last oppressed group” to demand equality for their inferior gender, he did so without the hindsight of decades of success of female comedians from Lucille Ball and Mary Tyler Moore to Tina Fey and Amy Schumer (1968). As he wrote in his dirty joke handbook, female genitalia and all the constructs of gender were holding us back: “Women are still frozen at the paltry assimilationist stage of hating themselves for the women that they are,…

I faced discrimination, but I, Mary Tyler Moore, still powered through. My television series brought up topics that no one would bring up in the seventies. My television series helped break the stereotypes of women. I was born a dancer at heart on December 29, 1936. I danced before I walked and carried that passion all the way through high school. But when I turned seventeen, I starred in my first commercial, quickly leaving behind my dancing career and beginning to start a new career, acting.…

The ideal man has been ever changing. In modern society, the classic male appears tall, chiseled, and strong. How does this image impact a man 's view of himself? According to one study, males who see men doing performance-based activities actually felt worse about their appearance, vs men who had just viewed an image of a muscular looking man, posing. “ ...participants who viewed the performance-focused images actually reported poorer overall appearance satisfaction and poorer fitness…