Week 3 Blog

I think that it is a shame that magazines display images of skinny women in bathing suits and edit the images to make the women look flawless. Young women and children look at these magazines and want to do anything they can to look like the impossible. I think that magazines should display all types of women and men that would be a great role model for young children and help them to want to live a healthy life, not have them wanting to starve their selves.

Assignment 2

I think there is a time and place for everything. The language that I use in a work environment is totally different than the language I use when speaking to my friends. I do think that people go overboard when they name call too much or characterize all women or men to be a certain way or a certain name.

I think that anger plays a huge part in the characterization of women and men. For instance, if a women cheats or her husband she might be called a slut or a hoer. If a man cheats or her wife he might be called a dog. I don’t think it is right to use these filthy words but I’ve become victim to them a few times.

This topic I can relate to my job because I work for the Township and we have board meeting once a month. There was controversy on whether we should call the chairmen, who was a women, chairwomen or chairperson. It was originally called the chairmen until we had a women elected. Now the position is called chairperson so that it applies to anyone.

Week #1 Assignment

As stated in the text, Gender is defined by society and expressed by individuals as they interact with others and media in their society. Because gender is learned process it changes over time. We are taught how to be masculine and/or feminine based on our sex. The society’s values, beliefs, and preferred ways of organizing collective life determine what gender means and how we express it. Based on traditional views, men are viewed as strong, ambitious, successful, rational, and emotionally controlled. A woman would be viewed and trained to be physically attractive, deferential, emotionally expressive, nurturing, and concerned with people and relationships. Different cultures view gender in different ways. Among Arapesh people, both women and men took on feminine traits. The Mundugumor tribe socialized both women and men to be aggressive, independent, and competitive. While the Tchambuli society, the roles are reversed from the American society. Men are more feminine and women are more masculine. I think our current generation is not solely based on two sexes and two genders. Even though the “out of the norm” seems to be wrong, I think people are starting to be more accepting to these gender roles changes. I think society dictates the “normal” or “natural” way for a gender to behave. Depending on the cultural views, society will expect women and men to take on certain gender roles and anything out of the norm would be considered wrong.

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