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    overused characters who are confined to act according to their gender. More often than not‚ lead males act as heroes who‚ by the end of the film‚ meet their goal and are awarded with their female love interest. The female leads are usually just that- love interests. If they’re not‚ they’re usually passive victims waiting to be rescued by the masculine hero‚ only there to serve as pointless conflict. Hollywood has focused on maintaining gender norms and in doing so‚ have either forgotten‚ or more likely

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    Children would most likely learn certain gender role jobs. This was shown in lots of the toys as I was collecting my data. An example would be Legos‚ they represent any construction type of job where they build things‚ and they are found in the boy’s section of the toy department so‚ mostly boys buy/play with Legos. Therefore kids are learning that a construction type of job correlates with men doing that type of job because only boys play with it. However‚ Legos introduced there Lego friends line

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    It talked about how United States government and stereotypes are viewing Latina reproduction as out of control. I feel like Latina women have a higher sexuality rate then what the article says. It states that white women have a higher sexuality rate. That Latina girls in the United States usually follow their cultural norms to the fullest‚ but it seems like more Latinas have more children than white girls. It’s said that because they follow their cultural norms that it leads to the lower sexuality

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    society’s conceptions and binaries regarding gender‚ sexuality‚ and success. The media depicts a “normal” beautiful female as thin‚ tall‚ and white which measures her success. If a woman is visually appealing‚ society considers her beauty as a measure of success; the media shows beautiful women achieving their dreams more than other women who don’t fit into the description of beauty. Although the media has been changing its interpretation of beauty and gender‚ cases where the ideals of beauty measure

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    tacos and how big and cheap they are. Carls Jr is the last commercial shown that depicts how the way they made them and sell their burgers are. After watching all these commercials I could see that there was some gender specific commercial but over all these commercials were mixed to all gender types. However we can see that these commercials are for the ages of 18 to 30 since all those shown in the commercial were young individuals and most of the commercials were either a working man seen or electronics

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    The common assumption that hollywood gives the upper-hand to Americans in everything lies in the truth that Americans‚ especially white males run the hollywood scene. The invisibility of representation in hollywood is a reflection of the lack of diversity on the big-screen‚ and behind the screen.This asymmetry of status gives Americans the upper hand in portraying non-Americans‚ their internalized superiority comes from Americans being seen as the victors in everything. This “winner” mindset is the

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    multiple male gang members to accomplish membership‚ and lastly some have a boyfriend in the gang and become involved that way. However‚ it is clear to see how victimization in the gang starts out early and can be especially brutal for females as their gender again effects how they are treated in comparison to their male counterparts. “Specifically‚ 11.6% of females report being forced to have sex against their will during their lifetime…” (Gover‚ Jennings‚ Twksbury‚ 2009‚ pg. 108). That is just the ones

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    When someone looks into the issues encompassing the contrasts between the male and female parts in the workforce‚ one will see that ladies have a tendency to be one stage beneath men on the "status" or "significance" stepping stool. In American culture‚ the lady has dependably been seen in the customary perspective of what part she ought to play in the home; that she is the homemaker or guardian. Not withstanding when ladies break from the cliché part of "housewife" and join the workforce‚ despite

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    I do believe that gender roles and advertising do have some influence in the occurrence of violence‚ because based on advertisements and the media‚ there are certain roles men and women are to portray. For example‚ women are the caregivers‚ have to maintain a clean home‚ and are inferior to men. Men are to have strong and positive characteristic to be viewed‚ and considered as a “man.” As in the video‚ Killing Us Softly 4‚ Jean Kilbourne states‚ “turning a human being into a thing is almost the first

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    The Sexual Content in Angela Carter´s “The Bloody Chamber” The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories‚ is a selection of fairytales which have been re-written by Angela Carter to place them in the modern day. Carter has taken seven fairytales whose “latent content” she says were “violently sexual”‚ (qtd by Robin Sheets‚ “Pornography Fairy Tales and Feminism” 642). The stories include a variation of classics fairytales such as “Bluebeard”‚ “Beauty and the Beast” and “Little Red Riding Hood” with sometimes

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