Males are considered masculine because they are “rough and tough” and females are considered feminine because of history and women having to act like a “proper lady”. Do our concepts of gender and sex contribute to the ways we embrace gender and sex in diversity? Yes I think our concepts of gender and sex contribute very much to the ways we embrace gender and sex in diversity. I think it has a lot to do with why we think some jobs are for women and some jobs are for men. For example the saying “women should be in the kitchen bare foot and pregnant”.
Kill! Kill!" (1965) sets the new limits of relations between men and women. There are unusual images developed by Meyer and he uses enchanting directing methods when portraying the action and sex. The image of a dominant female character, a woman with enormous and incredible breasts presents allegories of the male world, where men are usually choose women for their sexual satisfaction.
This implies that Hero is only there for her physical appearance – a very demeaning portrayal of women, focusing as it does on their objectification. Much ado is very misogynistic as women like Hero are constantly being taken advantage of. Woman are seen as mere possessions and used whenever they are deemed fit. This reflects male dominance and patriarchy. Women are the weaker sex in this play: they are forced into giving into male power by doing what they are told; which is expected of them.
While Iago manipulates Desdemona’s reputation to cause the downfall of almost every primary character in Shakespeare’s Othello, Desdemona still exhibits power that defies her role as a female in a patriarchal society. Her reputation is subject both to Iago’s shrewd attacks and to her society’s structure; which unknowingly puts the men at risk while they think they are securing their own safety by confining these women. Desdemona is treated as a product exchanged by men and is smothered by Othello in his efforts to protect other men and keep her sexuality contained. Iago objectifies Desdemona as he manipulates Othello’s perspective of her until Othello literally deconstructs his wife, despite her innocence. Though she seems the stereotypical female, Desdemona breaks free of gender constraints as she defies her father and exhibits complete control over Othello at the beginning of the play.
The scene in which Aileen kills her last victim while he is begging for his life, can be seen as her not having anything sympathy or compassion for him and these are considered to be female characteristics. Female killers, like Aileen, are considered to be committing a ’double sin’, one of not being an adequate or ’good’ female and the other of the actual crime. Another theme in the film is the portrayal of Aileen as ‘masculine’, both psychically and emotionally. Charlize Theron, throughout her career in Hollywood is seen as a very glamorized, and beautiful women and also a complete opposite of her character Aileen. Aileen is shown to be very rough and tough, not caring about her appearance while Charlize is often conveyed as a sex symbol in Hollywood.
Also in today’s unclear world with the ever increasing amount of divorce and conflict within marriages a screwball comedy would have a hard time getting wide appeal and a success. Today’s culture is so used to explicit sex that innuendo and true romance couldn’t generate enough revenue to work in today’s market. The Lady Eve adheres to the Hollywood style in regards to character type for this genre of film. As I had mentioned earlier in the essay the characters clearly are set in their roles shown not only socially but sexually. Jean the key representative of the lower class shows through her sexual antagonism of Hopsie, that she like the lower class wields the real power when it comes to real world situations.
Courtly Love A character named Aldonza goes through the hardships of life as a prostitute in Man of La Mancha, which is a play within a play. A manuscript made by one of the characters in Man of La Mancha, Miguel De Cervantes, portrays Aldonza as an “alley cat”, no one loves her, and only uses her for sex. She is a strong individual who believes she has control of her clients; however, in the settings of this book, women with authority and control did not exist, they were barely recognized as citizens. Aldonza hated one thing, men. She worked as a prostitute to make a living, as she did not have any education.
These women had kids and that was there only job. Although men only saw these women as just a body to use to bear a child, all other women were jealous of them As we read on we can see that the Marthas of the story are the most under privileged of the women. They cannot have kids and are seen as a waste of a human body in the novel. Men keep these women suppressed under very strict rules. All women are color coded which goes to show that women are seen as objects instead of as a human being with natural rights.
These handmaids are essentially women used for the birthing of babies. According to Atwood in one of her many interviews, "women were intrinsically good and men bad; to divide along allegiance lines--that is, women who wore high heels and makeup were instantly suspect, those in overalls were acceptable"(Problems of). These ideas were and have been created by our social and political system and could not be fixed until such systems have been reformed. The feminist ideas that are expressed in this novel are necessary. Besides, these women do exist not only in the novel but women like this exist in real life.
The third wave feminism teaches you to focus on your individual self and find inner happiness. It also highlights that every person is unique and different in their own way. Now a days we have the technology, medicine, and facilities to change certain things that make a person unhappy with themselves and I do not believe that this makes us “expect women to ramp up their sexuality at all times.” It is a matter of personal choice and preference. In my experience, most males I know prefer