It’s almost as though these “boys have also learned that men ogle primarily to impress other men (and to affirm their heterosexuality)”. Now, the definition of ogle is to stare at somebody desirously: to look at somebody for sexual enjoyment or as a way of showing sexual interest. ("ogle" Merriam-Webster Online Dictonary) To me that definitely is not a look that I would like to be given. There does not seem to be any way possible for a male to ogle at a woman without her feeling like an object unless she is portraying herself in a sexual manor. The Cindy Crawford commercial that Kilbourne discusses in her essay really brings the issue of the century long double standards to light.
The commercial encourages you to buy and enjoy Bud Light because they are realistic thinkers. The commercial leaves you with Bud Light on your mind. You would not be able to explain the commercial without mentioning Bud Light. They used an everyday example so no one can possibly get offended and they censored the words so that is appropriate for television. Next what I interpret from the commercial was it was made to entertain by making you laugh.
One of the ways this is illustrated through is in the second stanza he describes her as being ‘slapped up’. The onomatopoeic phrase suggests men’s sarcastic prejudice view on women as sexual objects; it also emphasizes the challenges the girl is facing in men’s attitudes toward her. Larkin also humiliates the girl by describing the obscene disfigurement to the image of her ‘huge tits... A tuberous cock and balls’. The taboo language helps to demonstrate more than just adolescent immaturity but deliberate and repeated attempts to degrade her by a kind of visual rape. However one could also argue that Larkin seems to justify violence against women by suggesting that access to women is something men have been unfairly deprived of.
She uses Michael Jordan as an example of his masculinity in sports and femininity in dressing style. We do not generally poke fun at Jordan because he already has gained that respect from the public. To this point, Bordo draws an implication that men are afraid to dress well because they do not want to be judged by everyone else as a metrosexual and be stereotyped as a homosexual. Most try to stay inside the norms which expectations have created for us (in a way taking out uniqueness) and dare not to venture out. Bordo and I would both agree that as long as a man is secure with his own sexuality he will not have a problem dressing the way he would like
I believe this a great example and show power and control over women; this can be classified as sexist gender roles and of the reinforcement of male hegemony and female subservience. It also shows how sex sells, the commercial ends right as the women approaches him. This commercial is
She explains that women are objectifying themselves and are equally to blame for the degrading image that men have of us. The article discusses how we do not have to put ourselves in this position and continue to objectify ourselves, however our culture teaches us that that is the acceptable way to live. Unless someone does something radical to change the norms of our society, men will continue to objectify women and the women will help them. This is the way of our culture. I enjoyed this reading because it really opened my eyes to how erotic our culture is, in fact.
The author’s arrogant tone is also clearly shown when he was trying to hold himself back from telling the two ladies to stop talking. “It was a particularly engrossing, well composed, mood-setting shot, undermined by the chatter of my neighbors, and I felt I had no
Curley’s wife is portrayed as being a whore – but this is only due to the way she dresses, her provocative ways and the way she acts around men, as if she is aware of her femininity. This could suggest that she is only like this because she is bored, like it is something to do – something interesting for a change. She is constantly trying to get people to notice her. But, because of Lennie’s purity and innocence, he doesn’t see her in the way other men do – a sexual object. When Steinbeck quotes “And because she had confided in him, she moved closer to Lennie and sat beside him”, it is clear to the audience that Curley’s Wife is using her sexuality as an object to create some sort of excitement for herself.
Female Chauvinist Pigs are women who sexually only objectify other women and themselves. Some women gain empowerment by disciplining oneself from women who are “girly girls”, while simultaneously objectifying such women like going to strip clubs and reading Playboy. Others gain empowerment by objectifying themselves through sexual appeal. Both are an attempt to gain status whether being through the attempt of acting like a male chauvinist or through embodying what society portrays as the ideal object of male desire. As an example, Camille Paglia, in an interview with spin magazine expresses “The people who criticize me, these
According to Limbaugh, Steinem was, “sex(ist)…(when she) once suggested men behave all the time like women who are PMSing” (Whittington). Through this secondary source, the audience sees Steinem being sexist and claiming men always act like women while their PMSing. Humans are all born generally evil and they tend to judge and say things that other people see as offensive. There are men out there that do have more feelings than women and have mood swings, which is also known as PMS for women. Some men in the world would say anything that would turn feminist followers against their feminist leader, which in this case would be Steinem.