The Use Of Gendered Language In Anime And Pop Culture

Founded by Groves in 1999, the Cultivation Theory came into existence (Graves, 1999). The theory states that exposure to television develops social behavior and norms. At a young age, we are only just entering the stage in their lives where we are beginning to think for ourselves and develop our own personal beliefs and values. Our minds are gullible and can be easily manipulated. This particular empirical study analyzes the effects due to media, specifically Disney princess movies, on gender stereotyping. Gender stereotyping can be defined as common generalizations used to describe gender roles in society, specific attributes associated with each gender, and the differences between each. Many a time, gender stereotypes are

Representation in media is hugely important as it influences, both consciously and subconsciously, culture and society. Gender representation is especially important in this day and age because more and more media is being consumed by younger audiences. In G-rated animated movies and televisions shows targeted for young girls, the female characters are hyper-sexualized and, 9 out of 10 times, their stories revolve around finding a man to love them, facilitating our cultures obsession with heteronormativity. Boys are encouraged to watch male dominated action movies, full of violence, sexy, scantily-clad women, and heteronormative, hyper-masculine stereotypes. Boys who are interested in any media designated “for girls” is seen as less masculine and may face bullies and pressure from all walks of life, at home and in school. Society begins teaching boys and girls how to gender immediately, what is appropriate, tolerated, encouraged, and what is unacceptable. As we grow up our media becomes more violent, more sexualized, and even more gendered. I will be exploring gender representation in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gilmore Girls, and The 100, discussing the problematic and the progressive representations of gender, starting with Gilmore Girls.

The corpus to be analyzed consists of the most controversial episodes of an internationally popular and long-running adult animation show called Family Guy. This show represents cultural attitudes and embodies how the youth of today see themselves and others, as well as influencing viewers. Some messages in this popular show, and others like it, underscore prejudices and racist attitudes in our society, showcasing the discrimination that minorities and some ethnicities face. Furthermore, these shows actually serve to strengthen existing prejudices, increasing these attitudes in viewers.

Gender stereotypes are everywhere. Even before we can understand what this means, people are constantly exposed to them through advertisements, toys, clothes, and the media including television shows and movies. To evaluate the prevalence of gender stereotypes in television programs targeted towards young children, I chose to watch four different shows called Phineas and Ferb, Little Einsteins, Horrid Henry, and Sofia the First. When picking what shows to watch, I intentionally selected at least one that looked targeted towards boys, another that appeared to be targeted towards girls, and finally one that seemed gender neutral. I also made sure to watch at least two episodes of each program to determine whether the themes I observed were

Years later McConnell-Ginet (1989, as cited in McConnell-Ginet, 2011) began to study about language and gender in which it focused on speeches of men and women. Later in 2002, in investigating the characterisation of men and women in language, a study has been conducted that covered the sexism in language (Weatherall, 2002). Thus, the foundation of this research is based on the study of language and gender and its effect on

In Deborah Tannen’s essay “ Sex, Lies, and Conversation” she talks about the everyday differences between male and female conversation. She talks about how males and females communicate differently and how they differ physically when talking. I agree with the author's idea that males and females communicate differently because I notice it in my everyday life.This idea is important because it helps you realize these differences. The show I chose “ The Big Bang Theory” demonstrates these differences between males and females.

In the fourth session, Kristen Keen talks about gendered language choices and how they affect how people relate in the society. Power based violence and the tendency of blaming victims has been on the rise in the society. The theme of the session is “She’s such a slut! Analyzing our gendered language choices and their impact”. Kristen Keen agrees that there is an increasing gendered language that has both negative and positive connotations and can either have positive or negative effects on how people relate.

Gender roles play a part in the communication of both males and females in Australia. In Japan the gender role is fundamentally greater whilst in Australia gender is more equal therefore the gender roles in communication are affected less in Australia. Although gender does not significantly impact the communication process in Australia, women are expected to talk more politely, be quieter and not grotesque as if they were to act a little in that way they are seen as a ‘bitch’. In relation to intelligence, a male brain represents more information processing agents, and a female brain performs more circulate between these processing agents which implies that men and women tend to communicate and complete tasks

In the article “Language May Help Create, Not Just Convey, Thoughts and Feelings” by “Harvard University” the article states “The language we speak may influence not only our thoughts but our implicit preferences as well” (p.1). In other words, language makes our thought and build our thinking and emotions. Different rates and numbers show that the countries that use language that specify the differences between male and female personal pronoun, have fewer people change their gender. In the article “Language Linked To Gender Inequality, Research Suggests” by “Frances Chen”, a psychologist “Jennifer Prewitt” says in the article “Countries where citizens speak gendered languages — in which nouns are masculine or feminine — display a higher rate of gender inequality than countries with languages that do not ascribe gender to nouns” (p.1). In other words, some languages do not tell the differences between the personal pronoun for male and female. For instance, “hän” in the Finnish language it means he, she or it, it does not tell whether if it's for male or a

Communication between males and females has always been somewhat complicated. Because we are arguing that males and females have different cultures we wanted to take a look at what some of these differences might be. According to our research the inherent differences between male and female culture are the different roles that society holds for them and the ways these roles lead to different communication styles. The stereotypes that men and women grow up with affect the types of ways in which they communicate. We first wanted to take a look at how they specifically differ while men and women are arguing or having normal conversations. We also looked at the different types of networks that men and women

Female passivity and sexual objectivity is a defining feature of gender relations in popular visual media. This script was frequently repeated in teledildonic marketing materials in several ways. Most explicitly, Kiiroo describes one of their product offerings as “girls,” with a call-to-action on their homepage stating, “Come and see our new Kiiroo girls. Shop Now” (Kiiroo Homepage, 2016). With female users an, emphasis is placed again on male action and female objectivity: “The intensity of the vibrations will adjust to what scene you see. If the guy goes faster, your Pearl will go faster too” (Kiiroo Pearl, 2016).

The first research entitled “The representation of gender roles in the media - An analysis of gender discourse in Sex and the City movies ” was constructed by Therese Ottosson and Xin Cheng in 2012.

This animated movie Sing was interestingly appealing and uplifts your spirits as the main characters have to remove barriers in their journey to reach their dreams. Buster Moon starts the movie as a koala whose father bought Moon Theatre to give to Buster, which has been going through rough times. Although he exercises power by his shady actions to save his theatre, Buster is supportive to the contestants by giving encouraging words and giving suggestions. Miss Crawley is an absentminded secretary with a glass eye which adds to her personality. Buster’s best friend is Eddie who is searching for meaning in his life but does not have any ambition to develop into anything. A stay at home mother pig, Rosita, has big dreams of becoming a star,

It only takes a second to attach a strong feeling or idea to a character in a movie, advertisement, or video game. Many characterization used are based on the assumed stereotypes, and are usually one-dimensional characters. Typically, these characterizations usually come from inherited family values, education, and the media. While stereotypes existed long before mass media, the media machine certainly helped to accelerate the cultural growth of all kinds of stereotypes. It is beyond this paper to answer why magazines employ these gender stereotypes, instead this research is designed to analyze

Actresses or female spokesperson must smile to their male co-characters, an act set to represent their feminine gender characters, which is women support or men; while male characters must not smile, in order to highlight their competence and serious behaviour at work (Arima, 2003). It illustrates that Japanese advertisers and producers allocate gender stereotypic actions to actors according to socially desirable gender traits, for example, females must smile because they are expected to serve and they have good interaction skills; while males must not smile, but instead they are expected to showcase their abilities (Inoue & Ebara, 1995; Arima, 2003). This brought me to ponder that in parallel to an individual’s gender stereotype role and imagined identities, everyone is categorised according to the society’s value judgements and prejudice, based upon his or her functionality within the contemporary social hierarchy; with that women will forever remain inferior to