House Md Gender Essay
House M.D.
The perception of gender throughout history has been manipulated and changed into something that is totally different than the gender norm: men should act like men, working and paying the bills, and women should act like women, cleaning, cooking, and caring for children. These days it is more the idea of anything goes. The idea that popular conceptions of femininity and masculinity instead revolve around hierarchical appraisals of the natural roles of males and females gives people the idea that there is only one precedent of behaving and now, with the advances and maturing of society, we are able to break the mold. For example, we have women in superior positions and men as the inferiors. Recently there have been these ideas of gender roles switches and orientation confusion seeping into our media.
The FOX television series House M.D. is a drama/comedy series about the rude, unconventional, Vicodin addicted, genius of a doctor, Gregory House and his team of skilled doctors working to diagnosis and solve emergency medical mysteries. House M.D is more concerned with the actual medical issues and the experiences between the patients and the doctors. In the show, the characters show either extreme femininity/masculinity or they blur the gender lines set in place by generations before us.
Dr. Lisa Cuddy is the Dean of Medicine and the hospital administrator at Princeton Plainsboro. She is technically the boss of House and the other doctors, and House has a very big problem with someone else having authority over him. They are always in constant arguments about his unconventional way of doing things and rude behavior toward the patients and their families. However, even though she continuously fights him over his behavior in the hospital, she cannot but trust his diagnosis because she knows that he is the best of the best. This shows that Dr. House has convinced her that he is very knowledgeable and that he is a dominant force over her even though she is
The perception of gender throughout history has been manipulated and changed into something that is totally different than the gender norm: men should act like men, working and paying the bills, and women should act like women, cleaning, cooking, and caring for children. These days it is more the idea of anything goes. The idea that popular conceptions of femininity and masculinity instead revolve around hierarchical appraisals of the natural roles of males and females gives people the idea that there is only one precedent of behaving and now, with the advances and maturing of society, we are able to break the mold. For example, we have women in superior positions and men as the inferiors. Recently there have been these ideas of gender roles switches and orientation confusion seeping into our media.
The FOX television series House M.D. is a drama/comedy series about the rude, unconventional, Vicodin addicted, genius of a doctor, Gregory House and his team of skilled doctors working to diagnosis and solve emergency medical mysteries. House M.D is more concerned with the actual medical issues and the experiences between the patients and the doctors. In the show, the characters show either extreme femininity/masculinity or they blur the gender lines set in place by generations before us.
Dr. Lisa Cuddy is the Dean of Medicine and the hospital administrator at Princeton Plainsboro. She is technically the boss of House and the other doctors, and House has a very big problem with someone else having authority over him. They are always in constant arguments about his unconventional way of doing things and rude behavior toward the patients and their families. However, even though she continuously fights him over his behavior in the hospital, she cannot but trust his diagnosis because she knows that he is the best of the best. This shows that Dr. House has convinced her that he is very knowledgeable and that he is a dominant force over her even though she is
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