Codes Of Gender
The first picture confirms the traditional code because of the way the woman is posing and the way she’s dressed. She’s sitting down, with one knee bent, and her head leaned back this makes her look submissive. She’s sexualized because her of the way her attire is being worn. The robe is falling off her shoulder, revealing what little clothes she has on under it, and the laces of her shoes are undone. Although the woman’s gaze is direct, her facial expression is soft like she’s daydreaming or thinking. This picture is conveying the message to me that the woman is weak, dependent, and has little respect for herself and her body.
The second picture is breaking the traditional code because of the woman’s attire, pose, and her gaze.
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There are certain jobs that are not ‘acceptable’ for a woman, because she is a female. A woman should not dress and act a certain way because she is a female. These traditional codes of gender are complications for women because they are being defined as powerless, submissive, and delicate beings by the media. Although these definitions are not true, it still makes people treat women as if they were babies or flowers. This traditional code is more damaging for young women and little girls because they are seeing in the media how a woman ‘should’ act. They grow up and restrict themselves from certain lifestyles, sports, and other diverse activities because the media says they aren’t feminine enough and woman should not participate in them. It’s important for woman to break this traditional code so they can live freely without being judged and criticized. All women who break the traditional codes by participating in sports, dressing in ways that are not feminine, and other various actions are often criticized by friends, family members, peers, and strangers. These criticisms and judgments are one of the ways that cause women to limit or force themselves to make a balance between their masculinity and
Sexual objection and non-sexual objectification were mainly measured in body exposure and body movements. The different areas of a woman’s body being displayed were used to operationalize the idea of sexual objectification. Similarly, camera angles such as panning down bodies and shots down shirts were tallied to create a solid definition of “sexualizing” for the purpose of this research. (see Appendix A and B)
A close look at this work of artistry, the design is the anatomy of a triangle and closely resembles a woman’s private area, the genitalia. That existence said, for way too long woman was meant to marry, have children, be a woman of the house, and adopt their husband’s rules. Clearly this would be a case of stereotyping.
Sitting on a bench in front of a popular franchise, the woman in the cartoon can’t help but feel discouragement and disbelief. In today's reality the difference between what's sexy and what's not, not only gives the mother a feeling of not being good enough but also effects how the mother chooses to feed her child. The use of pathos, ethos, and logos as well as the vivid imagery used a double standard today to determine that exposing breasts are okay if it is in a sexual way.
Although this illustration has no reference to the novel, it is the picture that I chose to use, depicting the woman and her way of getting what she wants. As the audience, I have control over what I am reading and can express myself in any way that I would like, without having to worry about what society thinks of my views and opinions.
When we look at this piece, we tend to see the differences in ways a subject can be organized and displayed. This assemblage by Betye Saar shows us how using different pieces of medium can bring about the wholeness of the point of view in which the artist is trying to portray. So in part, this piece speaks about stereotyping and how it is seen through the eyes of an artist.
Like Untitled #225 (Blond Woman), Sherman’s Untitled portrait #198 (Feather Mask) also stirs a sense of uneasiness. The portrait is a color photograph created in 1989. A woman with an open salmon colored shirt exposes both artificial breasts as she sits with a large, blue feather mask covering her face, as if to cover her identity for fear of being mocked for being a woman. Dark, black eyes peer from beneath the mask, and appear to follow the viewer while one examines the portrait. There’s seems to be no reason for her shirt to be open and her breasts on display, unlike Sherman’s Untitled #225 (Blond Woman) portrait, who seemed to have a definite reason. The fake, jewelry-like nipples on the breast are a deep ruby red color that match with a red pedant hung around her neck. A white tulle skirt covers the lower half of her body as she sits in front of a green printed fabric with red tassels that is hung loosely behind her.
One woman is Caucasian, tan, has blonde hair, big lips this represents the desired look woman have to look like African American women while still appealing to all men. She is also wearing a white polka dot bikini, orange wedge heels, hoop earrings, a pair of sunglasses, a bracelet and is carrying a tote bag with flowers on it this represents the desire men have to see women’s bodies. The other woman is of Islamic descent, she is in all black, her hijab is hiding her hair, her face is cover except for her eyes with a scarf, and dressed head to toe in a shapeless black dress covering her entire body known as a burka, and carrying a black purse this is representing her religion of woman should be covered up at all times and only their husbands see their hair. In the Islamic religion, women that are not completely covered are provocative or promiscuous. The irony of the cartoon is they are both having similar thought about their appearance the dressed in a bikini is claiming how the other woman’s culture is male-dominated because she is completely covered except for her eyes.
However, I assume that if this were the representation of an actual woman, it was meant to represent a time before her workday began. As a working woman myself, I can attest that if this were an accurate representation of a woman after a few hours of work, the bandana would be crooked, her hair would be a mess or matted down with product, there would be mascara under her eyes, her lipstick would be nonexistent, she would have chipped nails, depending on the temperature she may have had pit stains and there would be make-up on her
Throughout the twentieth century numerous standards were pressured onto women. Whether they be physical standards, such as feminine features and modesty, or standards in relation to their actions, such as the need for women to be mothers and have men in their lives and to keep their sexualtiy hidden from the world. There were many female artists who protested against these boundaries women were put into by society through self portraits. However, these forms of protest expressed through art were not always accepted or praised as well as they are in modern times. There were many women who took a stand within their art against standards placed on women. In the 20th century, self portraits were heavily used as a form of protest by female artists in order to reject societal standards placed on women.
An Annotated Bibliography for The Main Cause In Negative Gender Stereotypes and Traditional Gender Roles:
Dozens of action movies are produced every year by Hollywood. Not to mention how widely most violent scenes such as guns and kills are accepted in most of them. Although most may view them only as entertainments, it is undeniable that the overexposed ideas of power and dauntless from not only the movies but our daily media had slowly changed our social norms toward gun and violent. Over 900 mass shootings, defined as having four or more fatalities in one incident by CNN, has happened in less than three years since 2013. When in fact, as TV news and newspapers intended to inform titles like “a student opened fire” or “people are shot dead in a historic black church”, almost none marked out the issue on gender or men in the titles. African-Americans, psychotics, Mexicans, and immigrants are more often to be written in contents of violence, whereas only few articles wrote about white men, who also build up a big part of our masculinity society. In the past, violence came from anger in specific reasons; today, violence has become a way to represent our toughness and masculinity. Not only did our popular culture lead us to a narrower idea of distinct gender behaviors, such as men to be brave and women to be sensitive, our media provides us even more contents toward normalizing what should be violent and incorrect.
The lady appearance is peculiar for various reasons . The lady wears brass neck coils that represent beauty in their culture, she wears them because she thinks it will make her neck taller , moreover , she see it as a jewelry to wear and to look more beautiful. The more coils she wear the more beautiful her appearance look. The lady covers hair with scarf and flowers because she is going to marry soon. In their culture they get married when their old. She is very thin because men there like thin ladies. in conclusion the lady appearance is an old cultural look in their
The video features also portray a lot of raw and fetish sexuality that is depicted in an artistic manner. The mode of dressing that is showcased in the video demeans the dignity of women as much of the female body is generally
My picture would differ from this because the woman would not be looking at the viewer. Instead, I want her to appear to be more submissive and almost scared, because I believe that is what this type of behavior produces.
picture offensive is that to them this is not a display of nudity, but a