I REALLY CANT BE THE BRIDE ASSIGNMENT 10

Sexual stereotypes in the Media: Superman and the Bride

Defined the word message means something you can see and hear some media outlets are but not limited to  newspapers, magazines, radio, records, films and television which directly or indirectly shows a sexual bias and often show men as the dominates sex. My impression of the film was that many perceptions of the Mondo male has not changed they are still considered the money provider and still are strong which is genetically proven with science I may add and are also superior to women (not true). I believe there is an option and we choose to be bought but we are or can be more self-reliant like the Chinese women that were portrayed in the films in this movies which I think is false because Chinese women are as suppressed but the idea of a Mulan is always wishful thinking and needed to teach these men a lesson. Listening to the message that blindly plagued the people in this film it was outstanding that a woman would say that a man was superior to a man and to them and they would prefer a man to do the job. This actually saddened me to hear that women where that valueless to fight for what they thought was right and didn’t they think they were better than that. Many women who were interview thought they were stupid. I’m guessing mothers back then didn’t instill in their daughters that they could be anybody if they put their mind to it. Any women who stood up for their self were considered a battle ax or a unruly stupid women like they were ruined or something because they have a brain or something. And women accepted this they understood their role as a beauty without the brain. One quote that really stood out to me was “Be a toy a man can enjoy” so offensive on so many levels. I just think about Barbie and how you could make her be anything you wanted her to be if you wanted to dress her like sailor Barbie that is who she was or if you wanted bikini party animal Barbie but her on a two piece bathing suits and you had yourself beach Barbie. Initially saying that they preferred the beautiful bodies with no brains, no brainer. How can we get away from the brain washing messages? I believe that the answer is that we cannot even the news is sexually bias in some instance. However I think this has changes dramatically because back in the day it was hard for a female anchor women to make it they had to dress with dignity and always carry themselves with poise and now today I have seen more female breast and revealing skirts on daytime news its ridicules knowingly they have turned themselves into sex symbols to sell a news channels. But then again you can’t blame them sex sells and the media knows how to sell sex plan and simple.

Assignment Eights WHATS WRITTEN ON YOUR BODY

Something written on the body can be interpreted in many ways. Usually people tattoo significant meanings, names and symbols on their body it’s a rare few who put tattoos on their body that has little to do with them as a person. A tattoo is a permanent open reminder to that person and those around them. It is also a characteristic about that person in which they want somebody to know or never forget. Usually a tattoo is never pointless because it’s something that is forever but then again you can never tell. In another perspective people say you can tell how hard a real man has done from his rough hard hands and how poise a real woman in a stereotypical sense from her soft touch or how wrinkle her hands had become from old age and from how much she has worked every day trying to raise her family. The hair is a person’s (genderless) crown of glory. Wither long, short, gray blond or black tells a story about a person as well.  A persons feet is also symbolic for how much of a journey they have been through. They say you haven’t experienced anything until you walk a mile in the other person feet or you cannot judge them until you do so. It is also a saying that you have to look through the other person’s eyes to see how they really feel when you please or hurt them. It is usually used in the context when someone has done wrong and they do not realize the actually harm that they have actually caused and somebody wiser is trying to get them to understand. I think Written on the Body did a really wonderful Job looking at somebody else’s life through the narrator’s eyes.   Written on the body left many questions as to how the body is portrayed as a whole and its many functions which was enacted in sexual situations many times in this novel. I do not think that the narrator looked at situations in other people eyes but only in hers and the way that things pleased her. Which is selfish, but then again she was willing to let Louise go. So in a pictorial way I could see Louise as this prohibition type of lady with many strengths and she beautiful I can see her with actually blond hair and red lipstick and a curvaceous body I can also see her that she is also fragile in the face and often flirty but she loves her fun and adventure this girl is a go getter. Her body is symbolic of many things because this narrator is infatuated with it. So what does this say about the narrator when they do not disclose the information about their physical attributes? And in the end actually Louise is not really a go getter but she leaves her lover maybe because her lover told her to go back or maybe she figured it was the right thing to do to save her own life intern making her selfish as well.

Assignment11

The statement “I am a writer who happens to love women “is also a genderless statement. I believe that the author is trying to create a genderless society were the actual person character is the only factor that determines the heart of person. In today’s dominate culture sex is the leading factor that determines a person and then you have the homosexuals who are a gender in themselves. If a person is a woman they are automatically locked into a gender role not chosen by them but society if a person is a man there are as well forced into being a person who is brain washed as being a sissy when they cry or a fag when they dress a certain way. It seems like the author is ignoring gender as a statement to eliminate the stereotypes that are associated with gender. Who set these rules? And why do we abide by them? And it takes a person like Jeannette Winterson to make a stand and break the habit of analyzing a situation based on gender. When asked the question; who are you? People usually say their name and usually want they love and like to do. Gender is usually obvious if they are face to face or sex is automatically established or searched for with clues like the tone of their voice if they are just talking on the phone for the first time. I would say that sex is a leading factoring of building a new relationship only because we have been wired that way and it just is. But I understand Winterson response as a writer who loves women. She did not specify as sex however everybody does know her sex. So people still do have a perception of her and her sexual preference also lead people to preconceived notions however I believe that it is a person like her that makes people think in a different perspective and think outside the box and I believe her intelligence and insight of people obsession with gender is what made Written on the body such a success. I believe that her ability to leave the narrator’s sex a mystery was a statement in its on. Whose needs gender in a situation about true love. Gender was not important in the relationship only the feeling that it gave the characters. I believe that this genderless society is what caused confusion only because we as a reader wanted to know (well some of us )and I know it plagued me not to know because like so many people today that’s the first thing that I look for and when I can’t tell it bugs. But I felt knowing the gender would have been a positive thing. I believe if the narrator had a sex it would have created more suspense only because I like drama and I think it would have been funny if in actuality the narrator was a woman because you hear about men finally realizing they are gay after so many years of marriage and then breaking up their home. But in this case I believe that Louise denied her love and choose to stay with her husband.

extra credit

The question is: Which medium (book or movie) more effectively explores the dominant themes of the search for the meaning of life, duty vs. individuality, reflections on mortality, constructive social roles, and life as art in The Hours, and how this was achieved?

I like the book for themes such as the meaning of life as known as “the internal conflict”. The book with a more internal approach to what the characters think and feel should indeed spell out (no pun) intended the natural meaning of the book but the funny thing with literature. Nothing is literal and it is often that the reader has to search for a deeper meaning to fully understand the context of what they are reading. The Hours by Michael Cunningham did a wonderful job painting a picture I could feel the pages dampen with water as Virginia took her own life.

However I must say that I felt the most connection with the film only because the acting was so prestigious. And in a modern sense I could relate more with the time sequences because the transitions between the years and characters were visible. I like how visually the day was passed in sequence and with full understanding and it also kept you on your toes.

I can totally relate to the character of Virginia. She was my favorite how twisted she was and she looked at life like a mystery that she was dying to uncover whatever hidden meaning that came along with. She got lost with her duty versus her individuality and I think this engulfed her. As a woman we have duties of what we should wear and look like but Virginia’s individuality to the world by surprise.  

Life is not always what it seems I go through out my day pissed off for no apparent reason. Why do I feel this way all the time? I feel like I have no one to talk to and no one who fully understands me. I pretend that I have it all together but I really don’t. In high school I was pretty invisible but I made it by with no bruises, but scar from the battle of verbal abuse that I got from my mother on a daily basis. I understand life as being this thing you do it’s a test from God to see how much you can take before you self-destruct Virginia told her husband in the film that “ you don’t live life by running from it Richard” it kind of pissed me off because that is what exactly what she did . But she also said it was her right to choose to live it or not.

Both book and film gave me different perspectives on what it feels like to put up with shit that you don’t want to put up with. We all have a place in the world I think the hardest part is finding it and being content with it. Not necessarily happy because that is so overrated.

ASSIGNMENT NUMBER TWO

This is something I have never thought, I’m not even quite sure how to answer this so excuse my blunt but very honest answer… Gender is a lot like the constitution it hard to change it but it is possible. Man and women has been our category of human it hard to imagine the possibility that there are humans that does not fit in to that category. It is hard to even want to understand, like many humans today who just simply choose to blind their eyes to what they do not understand and what they really don’t want to know.  But if you think about it everything is not black and white anymore and yet people still treat it like it is. Life is vibrant and full of life and color breeds and humans. There are many plants yet to be found and new species to be discovered so yeah I wonder why is gender still binary. From a conservative point of view you have BARBIE AND KEN NOT KEN AND HIS LOVER BEN. Then it came to me the reason why we have a binary system is because God made us that way and that is the simple solution. ITS BEEN THAT WAY since the earth began. Well since God created us. IF YOU BELIEVE THAT

Human beings are made to just follow social norms and anything outside that norm is exiled and disowned and it’s been that way even in biblical, ancient and Greek times. For example when Adam and Eve disobeyed God they were kicked out of the Garden of Eden. Or another example A BLACK President who would have thought people were very unhappy about this and then again some people were willing to give him a chance however all he does is wrong and people calls him a socialistic because he believes in diplomacy and does not believe that the rich should get richer but they should help the poor and he gets death threats on a daily basis.

If you think about it God created man and he created women from man (if you believe in Christian beliefs). He didn’t create she-man, her-man, undecided or in between as an entity or into existence because it was not supposed to be that way according his plan.  Just my idea on it……..  Should it be this way….. I’m not sure

Some of the moral or societal implications of maintaining a binary system are to keep the sanity of many Americans. It’s hard for many Americans to wrap their mind around the fact that it is trifecta of sex’s let alone five sexes in which the Indians believed in.

I’m black, it’s obvious when you see me but my sister, she is half black and half white and on the nationality section she marks black or African American. There is no option for half black half white she is just simply BLACK. And it goes for anybody who has an ounce of black in them so should there should be an option for a man (mentally) who looks like a woman and vice versa? Should we acknowledge the fact that they are different genders if race is still really black or white.

ASSIGNMENT 3

This is something I have never thought, I’m not even quite sure how to answer this so excuse my blunt but very honest answer… Gender is a lot like the constitution it hard to change it but it is possible. Man and women has been our category of human it hard to imagine the possibility that there are humans that does not fit in to that category. It is hard to even want to understand, like many humans today who just simply choose to blind their eyes to what they do not understand and what they really don’t want to know.  But if you think about it everything is not black and white anymore and yet people still treat it like it is. Life is vibrant and full of life and color breeds and humans. There are many plants yet to be found and new species to be discovered so yeah I wonder why is gender still binary. From a conservative point of view you have BARBIE AND KEN NOT KEN AND HIS LOVER BEN. Then it came to me the reason why we have a binary system is because God made us that way and that is the simple solution. ITS BEEN THAT WAY since the earth began. Well since God created us. IF YOU BELIEVE THAT

Human beings are made to just follow social norms and anything outside that norm is exiled and disowned and it’s been that way even in biblical, ancient and Greek times. For example when Adam and Eve disobeyed God they were kicked out of the Garden of Eden. Or another example A BLACK President who would have thought people were very unhappy about this and then again some people were willing to give him a chance however all he does is wrong and people calls him a socialistic because he believes in diplomacy and does not believe that the rich should get richer but they should help the poor and he gets death threats on a daily basis.

If you think about it God created man and he created women from man (if you believe in Christian beliefs). He didn’t create she-man, her-man, undecided or in between as an entity or into existence because it was not supposed to be that way according his plan.  Just my idea on it……..  Should it be this way….. I’m not sure

Some of the moral or societal implications of maintaining a binary system are to keep the sanity of many Americans. It’s hard for many Americans to wrap their mind around the fact that it is trifecta of sex’s let alone five sexes in which the Indians believed in.

I’m black, it’s obvious when you see me but my sister, she is half black and half white and on the nationality section she marks black or African American. There is no option for half black half white she is just simply BLACK. And it goes for anybody who has an ounce of black in them so should there should be an option for a man (mentally) who looks like a woman and vice versa? Should we acknowledge the fact that they are different genders if race is still really black or white.

ASSIGNMENT 1

When I was a little kid, I was told by my mother that I looked like a little boy. One, because she could never do my hair because I was tender headed and I would cry if she even had to comb in her hand. Two because I refused to let her do my hair with a gurgling cry to the heavens above or a WWE smack down. However, I still understood that I was a little girl with the baseball caps I wore with my dresses.


Gender and sex was the initially considered the same thing to me. It is funny what a person can learn on a daily basis. It is week two in this Gender, Image and Rhetoric class and I have already learned a different perspective on gender roles (not that I confine myself to any of them).

I learned that somebody’s sex does not determine his or her identity. Most likely, the gender aspect is the contributing factor to how somebody treats a person and by gender; I mean a persons physical characteristics. Such as how a person walks, (like a man or a women), talk (soft spoken or demanding) and wardrobe (like a man or a women).

In the Article written by Lorber, she states that“Everyone “does” gender” without even knowing it and for example, she used the well-groomed man taking care of his baby in public. People silently praised him because it was noticeable and not normal. Nevertheless, a father taking care of his child, in which is a “mother’s role” is becoming more normal. I wonder if society would accept this and understand that it is beneficial to the upcoming of a child to understand that man and women both have an equal role in the development of a child and the notion that women and men are equal is important to eliminating social stereotypes in the future.

I really had to stop and think about how everyone does “gender”. I did not like that statement but I do understand that people do have preconceived notions on how a man and a woman should be. In class, we discussed some of the words to describe men based on society for example tough, working, and sexy and for women: fragile, soft-spoken and homemaker. We also discussed how some of the descriptions could be interchangeable.

I am a woman I am also straight, As a Christian I was taught to love thy Neighbor and not to condemn. My mother is a Christian as well but it quick to condemn people for their preferences and shortcomings, I think it is because she was born in 1935 and she is stuck their. My wardrobe can be soft but I prefer the rugged hard but sexy I think look and sometimes I do not care at all what I look like because my personal appearance does not consume me I could careless what people think. I would be considered a deviant. My mother says I look a quote “dike”. It is hard to explain to her that times are changing. If you look in the magazines, shorter hairstyles for women are becoming more accepted and less deviant. It is thought as exotic and sexy for instance Rhianna a pop diva with a shaved head and is rough in her music videos.

I understand that in today’s time gender roles are what defines a person and when a person dares to be different; they are persecuted because people are afraid of what is foreign. But I hope to learn in this class the solution to end social stereotypes. I also hope that I can be strong enough to live as an example that I am a human being and I can be who ever I would like to be and not confined to the social idea of who I should be.

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