Manney Bustos Dr. Holly Stave SCRT 181W 8 September 2013 “Blurred Lines” and “Battered Bitches”: When Misogyny Becomes Expressive and Embracive “Bitch I’ma kill you! You don’t wanna fuck with me — Girls neither --- you ain’t nothing but a slut to me…”¹ this is the opening chorus of one of the many ballads sported by the infamous Eminem. To the tweens and good-girls-gone-bad, he is a misunderstood ‘bad boy’ sex god. To the overcompensated and rebel-high intellects, he is a performance breakthrough and ‘artistic voice for the ages’; the guys down the street still allude to him as poetic Greeks of old. As is the case for most viral phenomena, there are those who aren’t too keen on hip-hop Elvis’s lyrical prose.
Aaron Devor explores how these factors, gender behavior and various entertainments, potentially affect everyone in “Becoming member of society: Learning the social meanings of gender.” Not only do Kilbourne’s ads ridicule men by showing the obsession of males, but also the other two authors show how other modern society’s entertainments are meant to ridicule men and most importantly women with their acts of violence and sexuality. The males are the majority species that get hurt through music we hear and programs we watch, whereas advertisements hurt females. The entertainments substantially imply most men are violent, and the advertisements imply women as material objects. In A sense, men and women learning the consequences of violence and sexuality in daily life would help them to find a common ground with another built on respect and compassion because both genders are getting hurt
In this instance it is clear SGT Cummings is being sexually harassed and SFC Brandt has created not only a hostile work environment, but has let it bleed over into public settings as well. SGT Cummings has already let her know person to person that he is not interested and yet she persists. Her degrading use of suggestive language coupled with unwanted sexual contact has crossed the line of harassment and is pushing the abuse into the category of sexual assault. I would explain to him that the average percentage of male enlisted soldiers that report sexual harassment and/or assault is higher than he thinks. The perceived stigma that males do not get harassed and no one would believe him should not deter him from the right to enjoy a positive
‘Pretending that such a sexist institution can bring ‘women’s rights’ to Afghanistan is a sickening piece of hypocrisy’ (Army’s rotten sexism: a product of training killers 2011). In addition, men that work in the army are exposed to violence, brutality, intense pain and witnessing of death very often. This may be the cause of the men acting in such barbaric ways as they need some sort of distraction of the problems that they may find difficult to face in the real world and turn to women as a form of amusement. Additionally, in modern societies, some women tend to expose themselves more due to their femininity. This can cause misunderstandings in a workplace and men may take this up as an invitation.
This Axe advertisement shows the sexualization of women by emphasizing the extreme sexuality of women and how it attracts all men. As seen in the ad, the lower half of the man’s body is caught behind, staring at the mannequin dressed in red lingerie. The scene here suggests that men desire kinky, sexually appealing women, as compared to ordinary, casually dressed women. The lust this man’s lower half is displaying towards the mannequin in red lingerie shows that women are viewed as sex objects in society’s cultural norm, which in turn places a negative connotation on women. The Axe advertisement also engages gender stereotypes for men as well.
Does using them make an individual a racist, homophobic or sexist? Should anyone be allowed to use them? The “F” word brings a lot of controversy in modern society as well. “Fagget” is used to determine a person’s sexuality like the word gay. People are strongly against homosexuality and sometimes miss use the “F” word and are commonly used to insult gay men.
He is disgusted by human physicality, which leaves him isolated and lonely towards adults and leads him to sexual impulses with little girls (Spring). The narrator ironically describes his as “a very clean man” instead of a dirty old man, but his implications are clear: his obsession with bodily purity has made him more perverted than simple lust life (Spring). Soaphead Church can be labeled as a ‘people hater’ who prefers objects to people. While, writing his letter to God we find him even crazier then before. Morrison not only wants us to see how Soaphead is a bad person but he wants us to see another way to deal with racial self-hatred (Spring).
He buys women drinks, dances with them, is very rude and judgmental, and he really only judges them on their looks. He sees them as disposable objects that he can throw away without a second glance. In the novel, he calls himself a sex maniac and you can see that side of him when he is around women. He tries to be polite to women, act older than his age, and even tries to seduce them. He does, however try to give these women a chance to almost prove to him that they aren’t phonies, but almost every single time he is disappointed.
Finally, both Miller and Fitzgerald show how the temptation for a woman or even hatred for a woman can lead a man to behave in a rather questionable manner. The Crucible and The Great Gatsby are prime examples showing that women do indeed have the ability to ruin men. To begin with, some women get involved in affairs while knowing that the consequence could be far greater than any pleasure they will receive from the affair. Furthermore, they will tempt men into affairs knowing that it could also land the men into danger. In The Crucible and The Great Gatsby the “danger” results in being death for Proctor and Gatsby.
It is clear that more derogatory terms for women than there are for men. Men can also wolf whistle or cat-call in order to harass a woman but there is no such response for women. Men also have more linguistic power over women due to their social status in modern society. In more current times men have turned to visual arts to implement there control and power over women. In this essay I will discuss how the “male gaze” is still very prevalent in contemporary modern culture using advertising, the cinema, music videos and magazines to confirm my views.