Reflection of My Presentation

        This Tuesday, I did my final presentation which is about media images of gender. In my presentation, I chose Sylvester Stallone as my main topic. Stallone has one important series movie named The First Blood which also lay his foundation of the most famous action movie star. In his First Blood serious series, Stallone played Rambo, a retired soldier from Vietnam War, who showed us strong, independent, violent in the movies. These characters always come from people's traditional ideas. They always think men should act like this so that Stallone's move chose this style. Although people changed a lot about gender stereotypes of men, these main characters are still existing in people's mind. That's why Stallone played Rambo four times.

                                                                

         I believe this presentation gave us a deep understanding about how the movies show us the gender roles and gender stereotypes. Through my researches from internet, I learned that the in Stallone movies, he showed us a man should be brave enough, never give up and fight for myself. This kind of movies influence people a lot about gender stereotypes and make them believe a man should has all these characters in the movie. This presentation makes me feel that gender stereotypes are always strengthened in action movies.

Images of Gender Roles in Advertising

Images of Gender Roles in Advertising

       This advertisement is about how women show their power. We can see big blue words at the top of the picture. It said "GET THE POWER." It seems like women are becoming the dominate sex. However, we can see a small group words under "GET THE POWER" which writes " THE POWER TO CLEAN ANYTHING." This advertisement has the meaning of satire, which tries to show us that women are still playing less important role in daily life. The advertisement tries to sell us the cleaning agent for kitchen and bath. The meta-message of the advertisement is that men are still the dominate sex in the society. Women should be a good housewife.

       I believe this advertisement must be failed in current time. Today, women are becoming more competitive. They want to get power and get success than any time in the past. In "The End of Men," Rosin points out that more women get college degree and professional jobs than men in America. Women are realize that it's time to fight for their rights and become more successful than men. Finaly, I believe that the advertisement of the cleaning agent has discriminatory meaning, it may be with a lawsuit in today.

The Reflection of The Video

The Reflection of The Video

         In this video, the toastmaster and three guests discussed "Are women and men really equal?" They point out that men don't against women today and women almost enjoy all the rights as men. However, people still think that is not really equal between men and women. Although women have rights to vote, to go to college, to get professional jobs, men occupied more top jobs. In the video, they gave a chart which is about the percentage of women get the executive jobs and board seats is still low, which is just about 13% to 17%. Another problem is equal pay. Despite America make the law of equal pay, women still get lower pay even they did the same job with men. In the video, the toastmaster also invite audience join their discussion.

         I don't think women can get really equal as men. It's clear that the society still has some prejudices about women. We can find it is hard for women get a top job like CEO. For example, in American history, no women present. However, situation are becoming positive to women. More and more women find the problem and they want to fight for their equal rights for themselves. Furthermore, women and men have different physiological specialty. That means they need to act different roles in daily life. After matriarchal society, these roles have little change. I think it's hard that women get really equal in the world because the society endows different responsibility to men and women. Obviously, men need to responsible for more duties than women. Therefore, women can't get really equal as men.