Feminism Approach
Destiny Gomez
Professor Price
ENGWR 300
24 January 2014
Feminism Approach Every year, America celebrates the Super Bowl in February. The football players, who are all men, play for the title that year. During the season, they advertise the event with beer, appetizers like wings, and beautiful women representing football teams. The theme is more towards men enjoying the sport and having a good time when their male friends while the women cook the appetizers and have the position as the host. If the tables were turned, it would look unethical to see women with their girlfriends sitting in front of the television screaming and arguing during the game while the men are entering the room with freshly hot wings from the oven. In Lois Tyson’s, Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide, she explains the reason why we would see that alternative way different from how it usually goes, we are influenced by social constructionism. It is viewed by women’s and men’s biological structure such as physical size, shape and body chemistry. Social constructionism also refers to how society views the differences between women and men. For example, we use the negative word slut to describe a woman who sleeps with multiple men. When it comes to a man sleeping with multiple girls, he is considered a stud, being used as a positive word. The movie that I chose to dissect in a feminist point of view was Gary Ross’ Pleasantville starring Toby Maguire and Reese Witherspoon. The movie is about two teenage siblings that fight over a remote to watch television and end up breaking the remote. A remote repairman comes to give them a brand new remote. Once they start using the remote, they get sucked into the current show, Pleasantville, and are in a 50’s set of a television show. When Jennifer and David realize that they became the characters Bud and Mary Sue, they try to go back home. Mary Sue is portrayed as a reserved young girl who stays home to study and does well in
Professor Price
ENGWR 300
24 January 2014
Feminism Approach Every year, America celebrates the Super Bowl in February. The football players, who are all men, play for the title that year. During the season, they advertise the event with beer, appetizers like wings, and beautiful women representing football teams. The theme is more towards men enjoying the sport and having a good time when their male friends while the women cook the appetizers and have the position as the host. If the tables were turned, it would look unethical to see women with their girlfriends sitting in front of the television screaming and arguing during the game while the men are entering the room with freshly hot wings from the oven. In Lois Tyson’s, Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide, she explains the reason why we would see that alternative way different from how it usually goes, we are influenced by social constructionism. It is viewed by women’s and men’s biological structure such as physical size, shape and body chemistry. Social constructionism also refers to how society views the differences between women and men. For example, we use the negative word slut to describe a woman who sleeps with multiple men. When it comes to a man sleeping with multiple girls, he is considered a stud, being used as a positive word. The movie that I chose to dissect in a feminist point of view was Gary Ross’ Pleasantville starring Toby Maguire and Reese Witherspoon. The movie is about two teenage siblings that fight over a remote to watch television and end up breaking the remote. A remote repairman comes to give them a brand new remote. Once they start using the remote, they get sucked into the current show, Pleasantville, and are in a 50’s set of a television show. When Jennifer and David realize that they became the characters Bud and Mary Sue, they try to go back home. Mary Sue is portrayed as a reserved young girl who stays home to study and does well in