Retrieved February 19, 2010 from http://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/Content/Articles/Issues/Homophobia/T/Title-IX-and-Discrimination-Based-on-Sexual-Orientation.aspx. Schlafly, P. (2003). “Is Title IX, the law protecting against discrimination based on sex a good law?”. Retrieved February 20, 2010 from http://aclu.procon.org/viewanswers.asp?questionID=000703. Title IX of the Education Amendments.
SpongeBob SquarePants: A Menace to Society Editor's Note: This special guest editorial was written by PT commentator Jonathan Apus. Friday, 21 January 2005 Families face many problems in today's world, including poverty, unemployment, access to health care, and various forms of abuse. James Dobson wants to make people aware of another problem: SpongeBob SquarePants. Following in the distinguished line of homophobes like Jerry Falwell, who accused the Teletubbies of promoting a gay agenda, Dobson claims that Sponge Bob, too, is pro-gay. He holds hands with his friend Patrick!
Second, masculinity has been such a daring transformation which affects all males from the time they are young. It has caused young and adult males to be more less superior and also show lack of confidence. Kimmel also suggests that feminists have bought a change in men where "feminism" might be applied in ways that actually help boys. Given that the unfairness and misinformation has created back lashes between males and females has clearly argued by Kimmel which he emphasizes how the "traditional masculinity" has affected how a boy portrays himself in society. Violence is a major influence in men's masculinity because it causes the men to think into a different state of mind.
Many theorists believe either directly or indirectly, the women’s rights movement is responsible for the changes that occurred affecting the lives of men. Other theorists argue that stereotypical sex roles are the primary contributor to the crisis and that hegemonic masculinity is both oppressive and damaging to men. In this essay, I will further discuss the evidence supporting and rejecting the notion of a masculinity crisis as well as some explanations for what caused it. I argue that it is in fact the enforcement and maintenance of patriarchal, hegemonic, masculine ideals that are the predominant cause of the masculinity crisis. I will explore evidence supporting the damaging effects of sex roles and stereotypical masculinities on both men and society as a whole suggesting that hegemonic masculine values and sex role stereotypes must be discarded and masculinity needs to be redefined and reconstructed in order to overcome the crisis.
It is for this reason that the Great War was seen as an opportunity by men, where they could prove their virility by displaying warrior traits of aggression, endurance and camaraderie, defying all aspects that were associated with that of female qualities. With these ideas in mind, the repercussions of war left men in such a state of serious psychological and physical trauma that they suffered from Shell-Shock or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). To be a man meant the repression of emotions and the willingness to sacrifice oneself physically and emotionally for the good of their country. Lastly, those that did not enlist into war were bullied into it by a propagandistic scheme known as the White Feather Campaign. Definitions of masculinity have changed over the centuries with particular focus on the idea of male virility.
Body image can also effect what men and women look for in their partner. Distorted body image can lead to lack of self-confidence, self-consciousness, depression, low self-esteem, and at times drug abuse. Media and Peer Influences on Female and Male Body Dissatisfaction “Who Is The Fairest One of All? How Evolution Guides Peer and Media Influences on Female Body
In most television programmes homosexual men are seen as the weak character that is usually going through a form of bullying or rejection. Marxist’s would argue that the bourgeoisies (mostly white men) are the people that own these television companies and they want to keep reminding people that gay people are oppressed as they don’t want them to become too powerful. Television programmes (especially soaps) tend to use the storyline of gay people coming out as one of their most emotive storylines because they try to display ‘problems’ that people face in day to day life. For instance the storyline in Eastenders was how Johnny was coming out and his mother didn’t know how to handle nor accept the fact he was gay. There were many emotional crying scenes where his mother thought it was her fault that he was ‘different’.
Sex Roles (2010) 63:844–859 DOI 10.1007/s11199-010-9815-1 ORIGINAL ARTICLE “Shake It Baby, Shake It”: Media Preferences, Sexual Attitudes and Gender Stereotypes Among Adolescents Tom F. M. ter Bogt & Rutger C. M. E. Engels & Sanne Bogers & Monique Kloosterman Published online: 27 August 2010 # The Author(s) 2010. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com Abstract In this study exposure to and preferences for three important youth media (TV, music styles/music TV, internet) were examined in relation to adolescents’ permissive sexual attitudes and gender stereotypes (i.e., views of men as sexdriven and tough, and of women as sex objects). Multivariate structural analysis of data from a school-based sample of 480 13 to 16-year-old Dutch students revealed that preferences, rather than exposure were associated with attitudes and stereotypes. For both girls and boys, preferences for hip-hop and hard-house music were associated positively with gender stereotypes and preference for classical music was negatively associated with gender stereotypes. Particularly for boys, using internet to find explicit sexual content emerged as a powerful indicator of all attitudes and stereotypes.
Argumentative Essay “Male Bashing on TV” Male bashing has become an epidemic found everywhere from songs, to commercial ads, to television shows. Although male bashing has spread into our televisions, workplace, communities and minds, the ongoing patronizing of the men in our society needs to stop. The constant abuse of men in the media will lead to problems in the future and people need to understand the consequences on the male bashing; specifically, the loss of self-esteem, the way children view their fathers, and how men react to their relationships. The problem deals with the way that the media negatively portrays men. While women have been suffered from being negatively portrayed by the media for years, male bashing it has never been as severe as it is today.
It is apparent that women are victims of abuse, but does it ever cross their minds that men are also victims? This topic is very under-minded; in society and influenced by the media. Could it be that male and female stereotypes have made it this way? Intimate partner violence against males is being recognized more throughout the years. It is hard for anyone to believe that women assault men at the rate men assault women.