Sexism in The Hunger Games Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm once said, “The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, "It's a girl. "” Collins demands that we take notice of the fact that society has made it acceptable to degrade women. The Hunger Games urges society to recognize the way it diminishes women by sexual objectification. From a young age women are told they should act a certain way, usually to please others. In the article, “Controlling your reality” Paige Pfleger states “Reality television can also preserve old fashioned notions about sexual stereotyping.
Fey makes choses to talk about the way women are treated in the entertainment industry with a joke on Betty White, which targets both sexism and ageism, which Fey repeatedly addresses, but with a softer approach through the use of humor. When Fey states “Science shows that fertility and movie offers drop off steeply for women after forty” she addresses both her ageing in the entertainment business and the concern that society places on women having a certain number of children by her age, but all centered around a funny tone in order to make her remark sound witty yet strong. The use of comedy made Fey’s argument regarding the negative portrayals of working women in the entertainment
Many middle class women were unhappy about this, and after the freedoms and empowerment of women during Weimar they did not like the new constrictions – it seemed almost like a step back for them. However, financial incentives were given to women to stay home and have children, and awards were granted depending on how many children a woman had – the more children, the higher ranking the award. They were told that it was their responsibility to provide soldiers for the future. As a result of this, many more women became mothers than might have down normally. Married couples were encouraged to divorce if their partner was infertile and many women joined Nazi women’s organisations.
Particularly, Hair and My Angry Vagina discussed how society thinks the vagina should be hairless and smell like flowers and should not be left in its natural state. The "Wear and Say" List was a great transition after the Hair monologue. The girls exposed what their vagina would wear if it could be dressed and say if it could talk. The Vagina Workshop was about a woman who had a self-discovery experience with her vagina. It portrayed the relationships that females have with their vagina.
One of these constituents is mental health. Now I know that mental health and the gender wage gap seem to be on two opposite spectrums, but their connections run deeper than it seems at face value. For women, our expectations are overflowing whether it be staying home with the children when they are sick, caring for elderly parents, making lunches and dinner, being a supportive spouse, or cleaning the house. As if the responsibilities at home are not enough, we are expected to go to work and tolerate unfair compensation and psychological abuse from the dominant men in charge. At some point, we as women are bound to hit a breaking point.
This is evident in Sherman’s ‘Sex Pictures’ and Moffatt’s ‘Scared for Life’ series. Cindy Sherman uses photography and mixed media techniques to challenge contemporary attitudes to the female image and identity. Her works are confrontational as they clearly depict recognizable situations examining society and the way men in particular view women. In her series ‘Sex Pictures’ she questions the notion of beauty and deconstructs the idea of gender. She does this by creating hybrid creatures from mutilated dolls; she combines both young and old, and male and female body parts.
Summary The video presentation was a very unique way of portraying an ethical dilemma. The demonstration of the case involves a judge, her niece, and a clerk evaluating the case. The clerk and the niece are involved in a heated debate about differing opinions. The niece seems to be viewing the case from a social standpoint while the clerk is viewing it from a legal viewpoint. The Judge quickly calms the two and offers to order pizza for a quick bite.
Thelma and Louise: A Provocative Movie Sara Lugo For people who are just looking for entertainment, Thelma and Louise could simply be a “chick flick”. For those with a sharp-eye, the film is a women’s yawp, a condemnation of the conventional rules, and a firm resistance to the patriarchal society. The movie released in 1991 divided the audience in two groups: the feminist and the anti-feminist according to the way the public received Hollywood’s change of perspective for this movie, which presents the events from the female’s character’s point of view. Thelma and Louise sabotaged the established social archetypes about gender roles diffusing the women’s image of passiveness, submission, and domesticity, caricaturing the stereotypical male characters, and exalting female’s friendship, instead of the competitiveness and rivalry the media have always shown between women. We born female or male, and depends on our sex, society assigns us a gender role “societal members decide what being male or female mean” (Burke 1).
Aida Castany Dr. Marsha Loda Buyer Behavior 9/15/2014 Killing Us Softly Killing Us Softly is a video where a woman explains how ads were influencing society’s culture in the past decades and how ads are influencing society’s culture nowadays. This video is divided into four key points. The first one is related to how advertisers are influencing society’s attitudes, the second one says that advertisers are depicted in her talk mirroring culture, but at the same time creating culture. Another important key point is that marketing ethics is involved in issues related to violence, sex, and profanity. And the last point talks about how society’s culture is changing a little bit every year.
The story of Mulan was set in the Han dynasty, which is man-centered society, and female were having a very low social status that they would only focus on marriages and backing up the domestic chores, while male in every family was conscripted, and that’s why mulan was going to the army for her dad. ….. One point to note is that the appearance of woman soldiers could be resulted in death penalty. In general, the whole setting was depicting a society in which female are very powerless. Mulan, was obviously the protagonist of the film. She, unlike those previous female roles in Disney; is quite outspoken, clumsy and independent.