Dear whomever this may concern, I’ve recently discovered that one of my favorite books, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, is banned in several states including Illinois, and it is listed in the TOP 100 most challenged and banned books in the United States. Claims say that it is ranked there because of sexual content, drug use, and mild violence and touches on suicide, self-harm, masturbation, and domestic abuse in relationships. In my opinion, people should stop banning books as a result of sexual content, because if kids aren’t reading it at that age, they’ll just read it, or see it, or do it somewhere else eventually. Sheltering kids from everything you think is a “sin” or “uncalled for” or “just inappropriate” is absurd, because then, they’ll just find it somewhere else. Sex is the reason we’re here, so we should at least teach our kids about it to keep them informed or, at the very least, let them read a little bit about it.
An enormous factor that plays into the number of viewers for The Super Bowl is the commercials; they are often very entertaining and usually funny. However, these endorsements are often very sexist and filled with logic fallacies. According to Merriam-Webster Online, sexism is “prejudice or discrimination based on sex” or “behavior, conditions, or attitudes that foster stereotypes of social roles based on sex.” These “sexual connotations” (Nilsen 36; 15) are shown throughout commercials year-round, but during the Super Bowl they are especially prevalent. Sexism is often shown through language. In the article “Sexism in English: Embodiment and Language,” Nilsen observes, “Going back to what I learned from my dictionary cards, I was surprised to realize how many pairs of words we have in which the feminine word has acquired sexual connotations while the masculine word
This side is shown when he complains to his mom about how the “food is bad” and how he cares if there’s any “bedbugs” (245). These traits of caring too much about his own health and hygienes shows that he's more concerned abut that rather than the real war in front of his own eyes. When he notices this, he changes his attitude and tries to act more manly by signing his letter with “Soldier Heinrich” instead of a more sincere closing to his mother. Homosexuals are mistreated in the world, even still today because of how some countries or even states in America banning gay marriage. Griffin connects the Germany’s hate toward homosexuals to a murder
In these court hearings, some very embarrassing and damaging things had been exposed about Zuckerberg. Simply, the humble and nerdy computer programmer had not been so innocent and forthcoming as the reader was initially led to believe. Some AIM passages were quoted in the article, showing the reader a very compelling argument against the supposedly good character of Mark Zuckerberg. The author is unsympathetic towards Zuckerberg when he comments about the new Facebook movie that was soon to be released at the time. Vargas writes, “The movie is a scathing portrait, and the image of an unsmiling, insecure, and sexed-up young man will be hard to overcome.” This unrelenting image painted of Zuckerberg is not what he chose yet was forced upon him anyway, unlike every minutely controlled detail of a Facebook profile.
Part Bad. That’s Man’s Essence.” The intended message of the ad appears to be that if men use Axe Essence body spray, they will attract sexy women in lingerie, and will lust for those women over their ordinary girlfriends. By being able to attract such beautiful women by using the Axe Essence body spray, men will feel better about their self image, have better relationships, appear to be more successful in life, and therefore be more happy and content. An ideological analysis of this advertisement reveals that there are unintentional cultural messages embedded throughout the ad, one such being the sexualization of women. This Axe advertisement shows the sexualization of women by emphasizing the extreme sexuality of women and how it attracts all men.
He puts the icing on the cake when proving that he is a racist person because he makes miss Phoenix feel as if she’s worth nothing when he so rudely holds the gun in her face and simply asks her, “‘Doesn’t this gun scare you?’”. Normally when you raise a gun to someone’s face, they’re going to reply with a yes but instead of replying scared, Miss Phoenix replies with a, “‘No sir, I seen plenty go off closer by, in my day, and for less than what I done.’”
Aaron Devor explores how these factors, gender behavior and various entertainments, potentially affect everyone in “Becoming member of society: Learning the social meanings of gender.” Not only do Kilbourne’s ads ridicule men by showing the obsession of males, but also the other two authors show how other modern society’s entertainments are meant to ridicule men and most importantly women with their acts of violence and sexuality. The males are the majority species that get hurt through music we hear and programs we watch, whereas advertisements hurt females. The entertainments substantially imply most men are violent, and the advertisements imply women as material objects. In A sense, men and women learning the consequences of violence and sexuality in daily life would help them to find a common ground with another built on respect and compassion because both genders are getting hurt
Al Smetana, the president of a manufacturing firm Rayburn Unlimited, is considering what to do to deal with Craig Lindley, who misuses company time and resources watching pornography on the Web. In my opinion Al should fire Craig to send a message to other employees not to misuse company time and resources. Additionally, Al’s this action shows his employees that he treats everyone fairly in working condition. Moreover, Al had better help Craig Lindley to overcome the psychological problem for sake of his contribution to the company and to show friendship. Al should fire Craig Lindley for several reasons.
Postman states in his assertion that Huxley feared we would become a “trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumble puppy”. Throughout the story, sex is one of the main and entertaining and distracting factors to man. In Brave New World, once Bernard got a chance to, he would take advantage of his popularity and have intercourse with various women. Based on my experiences in today’s society, I’ve noticed that the more “popular” you are the more sex you have. Many of the things we hear on the radio or watch on TV depict various sexual scenes.
Dudes who like to explain to women how sexist rap is (we’ll term them “Explainers”) are well-meaning white knights who have a passing familiarity with rap music and an urge to ensure that female fans are made aware that the genre is “misogynistic” (a once-powerful buzzword that used to denote hatred of women, but which increasingly means nothing more than “a thing I, a man, find sexist on some level, from a safe distance”). Explainers often identify as “feminist men,” although sometimes they’re just the type of man who likes to stringently test (feminist) women. It’s a dead giveaway that you’re dealing with an Explainer if he opens with the following lines: “How can you listen to that stuff? It’s so misogynistic” or “How can you claim to be a feminist when you love rap so much?” or “"HELLO, I AM A MAN, AND I’M HERE TO SAVE YOU FROM THE MUSIC YOU LIKE.” Explainers are motivated by a belief that rap “gets away with” being sexist; they’re selfless protectors of womenfolk who simply can’t stomach the internalised misogyny of a woman jamming Cam’ron. You may have detected that I’m snarking.