...everyone has to deal with stress; both men and women. Anne-Marie Slaughter explains her struggles balancing her work and home life as a woman in her essay, “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All.” In his response, “Why Men Still Can’t Have it All,” Richard Dorment argues that men have it just as hard as women. Both make very valid points about each genders’ troubles based on their personal experiences, but they disagree on who has tougher lives. A main point of Slaughter’s article is that women can’t have both the home life and the work life that they want. After three years of working with fixed hours, Slaughter concedes, “juggling high-level government work with the needs of two teenage boys was not possible” (678). She explains her personal experiences with being stretched between her family and the workplace, and how negatively people view a woman taking time off to be with her family. Even other women talk down on Slaughter after...
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...Under the Umbrella of Patriarchy Growing up, we all for the most part get the preconceived notion embedded in our minds that men are the strong dominant breadwinners, and women are the submissive stay at home wives. Although in Africa the women in my opinion are taking on the role of the husband, or male of the household. The women and children walk miles and miles a day for the basic necessity of water. Not only do they have to travel long distances, but they have to carry the water from place to place, causing a heavy burden on the women’s body. My question is why aren’t the men doing it? If men want to play the strong dominant role, they should be the ones fetching water. The reality of it is that the men can haul much more water than the women will ever be able to. In the book, Beyond Borders, it discusses women’s struggle to shape their lives “under the umbrella of patriarchy and paternalistic dominance” (Lerner 254).By the general concept of the superiority of men, and inferiority of women as it has evolved overtime. It reveals how we among different societies have continued this patriarchal and paternalistic movement throughout the course of history ultimately with the power to the male’s advantage. So with reference to articles from the Water and Culture Reader I’d like to discuss the unjust treatment of women in Africa that is still at large. “Women perform all the labor associated with water collection at the expense of education, cultural, and political involvement...
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...Sex appeals are used in advertising all the time, and people love to look at it because 'Sometimes people listen better with their eyes' (Steel 137). Sex in advertising is an effective technique that is used today. It helps companies successfully sell their product in our market. Of course it has to be directed at the right audience, and sold at the right places in order for it to work. Sex in advertising has been around for many years now. Ever since the Maidenform fantasy over twenty years ago. Here is a great example of sex in advertising. It showed women in their Maidenform bras and had different schemes to each one. Maidenform were showing that if they wore this bra and look sexy they could be successful in their jobs and get out of the house. Basically these ads made women feel sexy, and more confident about their bodies. Quit being just a housewife, which many of them were back then. It was now ?The Maidenform Women. You never know where she?ll turn up? (Moog 109). The Maidenform bra ads symbolized the exciting but frustrating longings of the past (Moog 109). Of course this brought some controversy, but when you are dealing with sex appeal in your ads it?s kind of an automatic. That was then, what about now? There are many companies that use sex appeal in their ads today. For instance Victoria Secrets is one of the top sellers in lingerie. They show skin in every one of their ads. All of their models put on the sex appeal for all commercials and magazines. That is...
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...world structured by male patriarchy, women are constantly criticized and abused. This is the case for Tara Gregson of the television series United States of Tara. She is a woman, wife, and mother dealing with DID (dissociative identity disorder), formerly known as multiple personality disorder. After being subjugated to sexual abuse as a child, her mind was not able to conform to society’s ideal for her. Through her multiple personalities she struggles with Sandra Bartky’s idea of a docile body and is further excluded from the supposedly supportive feminist community, and society in general, because of her disability as discussed by Garland-Thomson. Through this paper I will explain these feminist ideas of Bartky and Garland-Thomson and discuss how they are displayed throughout the three seasons of United States of Tara. United States of Tara was a three series television show broadcasted on ShowTime from 2009 to 2011. It displays the life of a woman named Tara and how her DID not only affects her life, but her husband’s, children’s, and sister’s lives. Tara has three main alters; Buck, T, and Alice. Buck is interesting in that he is a man in a woman’s body. He is the epitome of bad masculinity, but he is also Tara’s protector. When Tara feels taken advantage of or hurt, she transitions into Buck to deal with the pain. T is a sixteen-year-old rebel child whose promiscuity and outrageousness allow Tara to connect with her teenage daughter and have fun, even if it is not clean fun...
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...Sex appeals are used in advertising all the time, and people love to look at it because 'Sometimes people listen better with their eyes' (Steel 137). Sex in advertising is an effective technique that is used today. It helps companies successfully sell their product in our market. Of course it has to be directed at the right audience, and sold at the right places in order for it to work. Sex in advertising has been around for many years now. Ever since the Maidenform fantasy over twenty years ago. Here is a great example of sex in advertising. It showed women in their Maidenform bras and had different schemes to each one. Maidenform were showing that if they wore this bra and look sexy they could be successful in their jobs and get out of the house. Basically these ads made women feel sexy, and more confident about their bodies. Quit being just a housewife, which many of them were back then. It was now ?The Maidenform Women. You never know where she?ll turn up? (Moog 109). The Maidenform bra ads symbolized the exciting but frustrating longings of the past (Moog 109). Of course this brought some controversy, but when you are dealing with sex appeal in your ads it?s kind of an automatic. That was then, what about now? There are many companies that use sex appeal in their ads today. For instance Victoria Secrets is one of the top sellers in lingerie. They show skin in every one of their ads. All of their models put on the sex appeal for all commercials and magazines. That is...
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...Gender Roles and the Identities of Women During the late nineteenth century, there were many stereotypical attitudes regarding the roles of gender and the identity of women. Men were usually portrayed as the “breadwinners,” as well as the well-educated and the sole foundation of the family. Men had to show their masculinity by being the very upper-hand of the family. Women are portrayed as sensitive, sweet, caring, faithful, moody, naïve, etc. As a way to complete them as a whole, women needed men in their lives. However, women held the least power of the family and believed that they only had a purpose of being housewives. The ideal images of gender roles between men and women, and the identities of women can lead to stereotypes that are associated with Kate Chopin’s short story “Desiree’s Baby.” In “Desiree’s Baby” by Kate Chopin, gender played a big role in the life Desiree as well as Armand Aubigny. Desiree was described as “beautiful and gentle, affectionate and sincere— the idol of Valmonde” (1). Desiree was illustrated as if she was down to earth and had a very warm personality. At first she was nameless, like most women when they are first named by their primary families and renamed when they get married. Desiree nameless when she was first found by the Valmonde family, and then they took her in as their own and she adopted their family name. Desiree undergoes another name change when she later marries a wealthy man by the name of Armand and inherited the...
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...Smell of female Men can tell by smell alone when women are at their most fertile, say researchers from Texas. They reached this conclusion after getting men to sniff T-shirts worn by women during fertile and infertile stages of their menstrual cycles. Overwhelmingly, men rated the smells from the T-shirts to be most "pleasant" and "sexy" when they had been worn by women during their fertile phase. "It may be a cue that men pick up subtly," says Devendra Singh, the psychologist at the University of Texas in Austin who made the discovery. But Singh doesn't think the smell would play as important a role as visual cues in determining sexual attractiveness. The findings shed light on how our ancestors selected mates and may even open new avenues for treating infertility. Fresh shirt Singh and his colleague, Matthew Bronstad, gave a pair of previously unworn T-shirts to women volunteers. Women slept in the first T-shirt during the fertile phase of their cycle - 13 to 15 days after their previous period. They slept in the other T-shirt during the infertile phase on days 21 to 22 of the cycle. The women avoided contact with strong odours to avoid masking subtle scent changes. They washed with unscented toiletries, avoided sex and gave up spicy or aromatic foods, such as garlic. Two women had to drop out after indulging in pizzas and cigarettes. When men sniffed the 21 pairs of T-shirts, 17 gave a resoundingly higher rating to the smells from the fertile phase. They had...
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...Sex appeal is used in advertising all the time, and people love it because according to Steel, 'sometimes people listen better with their eyes than their ears' (Steel 138). Sex in advertising is an effective technique so it helps companies successfully sell their products to the American public. Nevertheless, sex has to be directed at the right audience, and sold at the right places in order for it to work. Sex in advertising has been around for a long time now. A great example of sex in advertising is the Maidenform fantasy that happened over twenty years ago. It showed women in their Maidenform bras and had different schemes to each one. Maidenform was showing that if they wore this bra and look sexy they could be successful in their careers and leave their housewife lifestyle. These provocative advertisements made women feel sexy and convinced them to quit being just a housewife, which many of them were back then. Of course these ads brought some controversy, but when an agency is dealing with sex appeal in their ads it’s expected to be somewhat controversial as perceived by the society. This was a story of the past, what about sex in advertisement today? Many companies that use sex appeal in their ads today. For instance Victoria’s Secret is the top seller of lingerie. They show women in minimal clothing in every one of their ads. All of their models put on the sex appeal for all commercials and magazines. That is what helps them sell. Women look at those ads and see those...
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...She was in the center of the lake, just under the surface. She was drowning yes; but, not physically. Breaking down inside, she was an emotional mess. To get degraded over and over again, she was exhausted. That was what it was like to have men superior over women, to be of a lower “status” as a woman. Women were always swept under a rug because everyone thought they were unequal. Since they were thought of differently, women were treated differently as well. So how can I tell women were treated differently than men from just reading this poem? Well women were treated differently in society overall in the early 1900s and that is when this poem was written, in 1939. In 1939, before and after The Depression, women were dehumanized all the time...
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...Pornography Ethical or Not? Feminism means I can take ownership of what I enjoy sexually and that sexuality does not have to determine anything about me. Feminism is not a one size fit all. (Alter, C. 2014) While feminist porn is ethically produced porn, which means performers are paid a fair wage and they are treated with care and respect; their consent, safety, and well-being are critical, and what they bring to a production is valued. Feminist porn explores ideas about desire, beauty, pleasure, and power through alternative representations, aesthetics, and filmmaking styles. Feminist porn seeks to empower the performers who make it and the people who watch it. (Taormino, T. 2013) In ethical porn, everything is safe and consent is part of the narrative, which enables viewers to watch whatever plays out guilt-free. ‘Ethical porn’ is used to describe the performers work, and ‘feminist porn’ is more specifically the kind of work. (Vasquez, T. 2012) Feminist have had a very complicated relationship with pornography, anti-porn activists often showcase the most violent or kinky porn that show images of women being degraded, humiliated, and beaten to show how mainstream pornography is. With this, mainstream pornography reinforces the idea that some forms of sex are unethical and non-consensual, leave the woman who enjoys rough sex, bondage, dominance, sadism, or machochism as they have something to be ashamed of. In mainstream porn, women are abused, forced to work with partners...
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...Dreams: Could They Be All They Are Made Out To Be? ³Over a seventy-year life span, you¹ll devote at least fifty thousand hours to dreaming² (Segell 42). These dreams can be made up of many things. They can be a window into another world or ³like a urgent fax from your subconscious² (Graves 97). Many things can affect what we dream about and they are not always our previous thoughts. Things such as gender, information gained during the course of time, or even sensations received while asleep all contribute to the content of dreams. Many times they contribute more than most people think. Gender affects many things, including the way we dream. ³Men typically dream about fighting, protecting, or competing in an outside environment; women are more likely to dream about relationships and loss in an inside environment² (Segell 42). Most men have been brought up with the notion that they must have more of a tendency of being aggressive. In this aggression they either dream about how aggressive they are or about the lack of aggression in their daily routine. Women, on the other hand, have typically been brought up to be more emotional than men. This up bringing has also affected the way women dream. ³Women are more likely to dial into their interior life whether awake or asleep² (Segell 42). This means that women will read into their dreams more frequently then men. Researchers have found that problems that occur during the day either at work or home and are worked through...
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...Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, women, and individuals with disabilities were discriminated against over the course of the development of our educational system. Horace Mann, Booker T. Washington, and Catherine Beecher took down the barriers of discrimination with their unwavering approach to educational reform. Horace Mann was at the forefront of opening the doors to education for people other than just white males. Mann, through his own life experiences, believed that education for all individuals would assist in the development of opportunities for generations to come. Mann set up libraries in many schools making it possible for students to have easy access to books. Booker T. Washington set out to show the white population that African Americans could be productive citizens through his educational leadership. Washington taught with the idea that one learned by doing, thus taught skills that one saw as useful in society. Catherine Beecher is recognized as one of the early advocates of higher education for women. The educational system has had a long and interesting road of development. Although we can read and understand how far it has come, it still has a long way to go. Many things have left me wondering why there were not any prominent named individuals who worked for reform with Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans. I would assume, just as Horace Mann, Booker T. Washington, Catherine Beecher, and others were noted...
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...A**HOLE'S GUIDE DAN I N D A N T E AND KARL MARKS ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN N EW Y O R K A**HOLE'S GUIDE THE COMPLETE A**HOLE's GUIDE TO HANDLING CHICKS. C o p y r i g h t © 2 0 0 3 by Dan Indante and Karl Marks. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010. www.stmartins.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Indante, Dan. The complete a**hole's guide to handling chicks / Dan Indante and Karl Marks. p . cm. ISBN 0-312-31084-6 1. Man-woman relationships. 2. Interpersonal relations. I. Tide: Complete a**hole's guide to handling chicks. II. Marks, Karl. III. Title. HQ801.M37135 307-dc21 2003 2002045213 10 9 8 CONTENTS Introduction: Chicks, What the Fuck? Fifty Tips on Being a Better Asshole ix xiii 1. From Birth to Beating Off The Birth of an Asshole The Purest Form of Asshole Gimme My Toy, You Bitch! Crossing the Dance Floor How Do I Get Her? The Beginning of the End Roughing Up the Suspect 1 1 1 2 3 4 6 2. High School Welcome Mat Firsts The Back-Seat Boogie Chicks Are the Enemy Watch Your Back—Your Friends Won't 8 8 9 15 16 20 vi C O N T E N T S Pecking Order Your First Pincushion So You're Looking to Get Laid High School Final...
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...she continued to speak out, not for just African American women but for all women. It is important to identify and acknowledge how these obstacles, including invisibility and bias against women of color, makes broadcasting careers a challenge to obtain. Women of color can identify with the Spiral of Silence theory, which is when people with different opinions and views from the normal society remain quiet in fear of isolation,...
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...Box 40264 Indianapolis, IN 46240 T: 317-250-8593 EM: ywcaindy@sbcglobal.net www.ywcaindy.org Questions for “The Thing Around Your Neck” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Cell One 1. What were your thoughts on this first story about the spoiled boy, Nnamabia who stole from neighbors and his own family and always got himself out of whatever jam he was in? 2. Why do you think his family let him get away with such actions for so long? Could you tell they treated boys differently than girls? Do we have examples of such in our own lives. 3. What do you think about the subtle wording about how those that were stealing from around the campus grew up watching Sesame Street, reading Enid Blyton, eating cornflakes, attending school in polished brown sandals? Do you think she was subtly saying something about those actions? a. Educated and wealthy parents straying from their traditions and having the children be westernized in teaching and upbringing, yet maybe westernized upbringing doesn’t help the children as much as you think? b. These were the children that were spoiled. Riding their parents cars, seats pushed back, armed stretched out to reach the steering wheel. 4. Any similarities to the U.S. to the parents reaction to the stealing? a. Denial. b. Blaming riff raff in town when their own children were committing acts b/c of their lack of discipline. 5. Were you surprised with the concept of beauty being those closer to the white persuasion? a. Why did you waste your fair skin on a boy...
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