Discussing Tough Guise with My Grandmother

The object under consideration is the barbie doll. A barbie doll is a toy for children who have moved on from developmental toys to more sophisticated toys. Barbie doll fit an unrealistic size and shape figured doll that kids can play with in various ways. They can play dress up and do different things due to barbie having multiple careers paths she is able to take. It does promote a positive image to young girls because it promotes the idea that you can be anything you want to be, however, it still plants the idea of an unrealistic body image. Barbie is slender and tall and barbie dolls do not deviate from thing and this is problematic because it creates a certain kind of standard young girls begin to believe in.

Women, grandmothers, girls, boys, grandfathers, and men are all depicted in the media differently every day. Each television show, movie, football game, commercial, and broadcast contains at least one of the individuals mentioned above. My main focus will be on how men and women are depicted in the media. Ultimately, I do not watch much television but, lucky for me two of my favorite shows that I do get the chance to watch, air back to back on Thursday evenings. I was able to watch both of them within the two hour time period requirement for this particular assignment. The television shows I chose were, Grey's Anatomy, on ABC and Dance Moms, on the lifetime channel. I am going to use these two shows to investigate further into the

This may seem a basically simple task, though her spin and the overall diction she uses to describe what she sees in the first few sentences suggest what will follow. For example, “…slender body, flawless (and more often than not white) skin; delicate, even facial features enhanced by makeup, carefully coifed hair…” Para 2). She then provides anecdotes from teens regarding their own body image before delving into the beginning of the 20th century, where she draws upon Brumberg’s 1997 book, “The Body Project. An Intimate History of American Girls”; a starting point for the conversation ahead. Lipkin then begins a chronicle of certain diseases associated with poor body image followed by the response of a specific cosmetic branding company. Lipkin closes her article by not providing a clear solution to the problem, but rather reinforcing the idea that women are seen as, “…both bait and targets…” (Para

“Enhancing Your Body Image” (2015) discusses the impact popular culture has on women strive to have Twiggy’s body and men hope to be the tough guy like Clint Eastwood (p.340). People are willing to alter their appearance physically; for example, people try to lose weight or change their personality by playing sports or instruments to find the sense of belonging. Society has a fascination of trying to belong within a social group.

As a child growing up, you tend to look around and see what you believe is normal. As young as 2 years old, girls are seen playing with Barbie dolls and boys are playing with action figures. It may seem like just child’s play but these young children are being slowly influenced into thinking that slim bodies for girls and muscular bodies for boys are more accepted than other body shapes. As they grow into teenagers, models, talk show hosts,

In the first year, they were taught to identify and analyze various forms of oppression in relation to the ways rap music portrayed the themes of racial identity, gender roles, ageism, stereotypes and youth problem behaviors. During the second year, they were taught collaboratively gender and violence and the effects of Rap Music Exposure on Political Opinions and Criminal Justice in which they wrote two empirical papers. It brought to my mind that they kinds of music that one listens to does influence his/her behavior or their way of being. By this, social media play a heavy role in the development of a child to the extent that they take whatever shown on television or through music videos as the ideal of life and that they should imitate similar behavior(s). For example, in Bandura’s study, the Bobo doll; the child developed aggressive behavior when he/she saw physical aggressive behavior towards the Bobo doll. In other words, adolescent(s) develop behavior(s) portrayed by social media to the extent that they imitate and believe that since others are engaging in similar behavior, thus, what they’re doing is the correct way of being. Putting that aside, Jager also explained heavily on the Wolverine

Katz explains how the media plays a crucial roll in constraining men to see violent masculinity as the cultural norm. Katz takes examples like John Wayne and Rocky, to show how this is what our society agrees to be a bad ass. Men act different when they are around their friends and others. Our society has defined what it is to be a man, I can speak from experience that when I am around my mother I am a completely different person, than when I am around my friends. Like the study we talked about in class, where when two boys were placed in the same room alone, one boy will try and take leadership of the other.

Society has a way of creating standards and expectations for the roles of men and women. The two videos Killing Us Softly and Tough Guise showed how society truly portrays men and women. The overall media system defines men. It is where they learn it what it means to be a “man”. In the video, Tough Guise, dominance, power, and control were the most commonly used adjectives to describe men. (1) Media not only gives men a certain role but it stereotypes certain races of men. Latinos are seen as boxers or criminals, Asian’s are seen as martial artists of sneaky criminals, and African Americans are seen as thugs or murderers. (1) Media directly associates violence with men. Violence has become an acepted part of masculinity. Young boys learn that if they don't want be be a “wimp” then they have to act out in violent ways. On the contrary, in the

In Tough Guise 2, Katz insinuates that “social and economic structures have systematically changed reality…masculinity is a perfomance, learned in our society and culture [and taught in large part by media.” The actors children see on tv, in movies, or in advertisements often have an obvious masculine or feminine appearance. For example, superheroes are categorized as having big muscles and saving the world. Whereas, princesses are categorized by having long hair and doing home duties such as cleaning or catering to the men. Young audiences consume these ideas from the media on how to behave and what to become and therefore shaping their future with these characterizations.

The “Misfit’s” response to the Grandmother’s act of unexpected and profound compassion conveys O’Connor’s confidence in the belief that God’s grace and the power of faith are not only strong and omnipresent, but also adversative to a dependence on human reason alone. Even though the “Misfit” consistently rejects the “Chrustian” faith, based almost solely on a lack of factual evidence, he seems to desperately want to believe and enjoy an acceptance of the omnipotence and omnipresence of God’s grace and love. He understands that faith is a choice; he simply chooses to live by himself instead, standing by his own sense of independence and autonomy and saying that he’s “doing all right by [himself]”. As the “Misfit” is continually pressed by the Grandmother to pray, he is pushed farther into this rejection of faith, even seemingly connecting the Grandmother to a literal representation of Jesus as she experiences her spiritual transformation right before her death.

Tough Guise 2 is a documentary that focuses on the ways in which American culture uses videos games, movies, advertisements, and other sources of media, to force ideas about masculinity and manhood. Not only in America, but cultures across the world how high rates of “violent masculinity,” which means that men are resorting to violence in order to maintain respect and demand power. If they do not conform with societies expectations of what it is to be a man, they put themselves at risk of being shamed and no longer fitting this societal idea of “manhood”. Using gender stereotypes and schemas, as well as the gender role strain theory, I will focus on how these ideas connect with the ideas in the film, and how culture is one of the leading cause

For many decades there have been discrimination towards the gender role of woman than men. The movie Tough Guise (Jhally, Ericsson, Talreja, Katz, & Earp, 1999), shows the evolution of 'masculinity' and society's beliefs due to social construct and how the media have played a major role of gender inequality towards women.

Racialized minorities are a key factor that is linked to masculinity in this film. It is clear that Marcus is seen as a role model for many racialized men due to his struggle and success in the music industry. Being an influential black man motivated his many fans to respect and aspire to be just like him. However, in the film, Marcus like many black men was influenced by the media’s portrayal of what it meant to be man and rather than inspiring non-violent forms of living. He conveyed aggression along with a love for drugs, money and women.

In the last reading of The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women, and How All Men Can Help, the author Jackson Katz (2006) stresses the importance of educating individuals about men's violence against women. Katz (2006) illustrated different ways in which people can make a conscious effort to counter the negative societal influence on male culture. One suggestion that the author wrote about for the school system stuck out to me the most. The suggestion reads, Once people understand better the way media representations help to shape people's identities and thus to affect their behavior, the negative images will have less of a pernicious effect. In order to help people analyze or deconstruct media messages, educators need to bring the images

This article is about a documentary. The components are based on the premise that violence against women is a direct consequence of patriarchal institutions that empower and privilege men over women. This was made to make visible the intimate violence and abuse that had been