Nights in Rodanthe- Make up for week 7

This romantic drama is a movie no different than many others. A woman just out of a hard separation with her husband agrees to watch over a bed and breakfast for one of her friends and typically, she meets and falls in love with a man ( the one and only guest at the inn) that is staying there. They have their drunken night together that brings them closer and they enjoy his four day stay until he has to retreat and go back to his ordinary life of course. This movie portrays women as many other romance movies do. She's weak, sad, and miserable with out her man there any longer until someone new comes along. It's never that a woman can be independent, happy, and perfectly fine on her own. This is creating the idea to viewers especially young women that men are necessary to be happy and successful.

G's to Gents - Make up for week 4

G's to Gents is a reality show on MTV that is based on men that have been to jail and do much illegal activity change their lifes around. Some were drug deals, gang members, and pimps. This lifestyle is portrayed to be cool to many young boys. Being a "gangster" is seen as someone strong and dangerous. This show however changes these perspectives on men. The whole goal is to make these men into successful gentlemen. I think it influences viewers mainly young men that the lifestyle of a "gangster" is not the path in life you want to take. You can watch as these men make changes for the better and realize that life can be so much better without all the crime and such. Shows like these show viewers hope and give the right impression of men to viewers.

John & Kate Plus 8

I was watching the show John and Kate Plus 8 which is a reality show of a family in which she has a set of twins and a then sextuplets. This show promotes women as the traditonal housewive that stays home,cleans, cooks, and cares for the children. Kate the mother stays home while John goes off to work. She washes the kids laundry, gets the twins off to school, and cares for the six children by herself until he returns home. She had dinner on the table for when he comes home while still managing to chase around all those kids. I have much respect for her but it's beyond reality that everyone is able to manage all of that. It may make young women believe that that is what a family should consist of instead of promoting that women can be independent and successful. They can go out in the job world and be in high ranking positions and make their own income without depending on a man.

Diary of a Mad Black Woman

Diary of a Mad Black Woman, is a movie based on what many women go through. She is a bitter woman going through a divorce in which her husband left her for a younger woman. Then when he gets into a car accident leaving him paralyzed the younger woman leaves and its up to her to now take care of him after already moving on with life. The role of women in this movie especially by the main character is weakness. Her husband owned the house and took care of everything. She had never had a job and she says, "what is she to do now she's not good at anything in the work world." It portrays women as dependent and weak characters. It is only when she is happy after she falls inlove with another man. It's just another example of women needing a man. I think its important for young girls especially to know you can be independent and successful without a man around. When veiwing movies like this it encourages girls that you need a man to care of you and you will be nothing but sad and lonely without one.

Battle of the Bods

I was watching a reality game tv show called Battle of the Bods. This game show consist of 5 women competing based on their outter appearance such as their facial features and body. They wear bathing suits and lingerie while 3 men hidden behind a one way mirror judge them and put them in order from hottest to least hottest. Theses women then have to put eachother in order to what they think the men would order them as. The more they get in correct order the more money they win. I think this show is degrading to women. They have to judge themselves and others to what a man would want. Some women are really hurt by being last place. I think the show is just another example of stereotyping women by looks and gives many young girl viewers the wrong impression. The women do however get their revenge at the end and get to put the men in order based on their bodys.
I think gender and sex is related way too much to the body type and is rated too much on how "sexy" or good looking a person is.

Diet Coke, The Woman's Drink

Dieting is usually associated with women. Weightloss programs and diet products are geared toward women by purposing that perfect body every women wants. I was watching tv and a commercial came on. It was a diet coke commercial but a twist to it. Diet coke for men was the product they were selling. They showed successful, strong, bussiness men drinking it. I guess diet coke has always been looked at as a woman's drink, due to the stereotype that women care more about their weight, that they decided to come out with the exact same product just with a label that added "for men" at the end of it. Now this make men more comfortable in holding a diet coke in his hand. I think it's somewhat rediculous that such products like a drink become so genderized for what is appropriate for male or female. What is even worse, this product will probably be profitable for the company and sold for a much higher price than orginial diet coke, the woman's drink.

Failure to Launch

Failure to Launch is romantic comedy film about a woman interventionist who is hired by a thirty-five year old man, Trip's parents to make him fall inlove with her to which she will influence him to move out of their house. This shows the male gender role as being lazy and unsure of the direction of their life. It shows many men who are still living at home at thirty and over who sit around, mooch off their parents, and play video games all day. They seem less interested in romance and more into the next carefree exploration they are going to go on. Also the problem with Trip is he is afraid of commitment, another stereotype of men, making her job even harder. Failure to Launch doesn't exactly portray men as being caring, successful, and independent.