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Gender and American Family 6
Gender and American Family
Alyssa Wichern
Professor Salerno
SYO 3100-007
24 September, 2019
Introduction
As it is hoped that children will be protected from the world of adult work, American culture hopes that men and women will play diverse gender roles in preparing for marriage and family. An ideology of "separate space" separates public space from the world of economic production and political life as male power and from the world of consumption and domestic life as a woman. While reality hides ideals division between the private and world of women and the world of public and male entrepreneurship has determined the gender hierarchy of America.
Family representation in the US media is related to social, historical and economic factors that are often ignored in today's debate about family ideals. After the postwar growth period, the nuclear family and its functions are discussed every day on this topic. Various researchers have examined the effects on gender, race, sexuality and class in media presentations. In terms of gender, women try to unite the public and private sectors, while men are rarely represented at home. Minorities struggle for accurate comments that frustrate them. At the same time, LGBT families have problems seeing it.
Literature Review
TV is one of the common forms of the media. According to Nielsen Company, 96.7% of Americans household own the TV that rates TV ownership in the rating., this means that audiences must carefully review program contents they want to see as well as decide whether to ethically promote as well as support the contents.
Taking an instance, in last seasons of the Big Bang Theory has only one main character: Penny played by cute Kaley Cuoco. Penny's character is a stereotypical woman: a stupid as well as good-looking neighbor who only exists to make sexual tension among her as well as one of the series’ main characters, Leonard Hofstadter. As the program progresses, characters have evolved and more women are introduced, but Sweetening’s nature still creates tension that is largely romantic.
The best examples of female representation on TV are the US version of The Office, featuring 5 lady protagonists: Kelly Kapoor, Angela Martin, Meredith Palmer, Phyllis Lapin-Vance as well as Pam Beesly-Halpert. Every part of fictitious paper corporation Dunder Mifflin has strong employee as well as all such female characters are dynamic. While some of the ladies play the role of women because Kell's character is emotional, the character has adequate development as well as background to be other than just a stereotype. The agency disagrees with the unfortunate statistics that men on the TV are more women as well as give viewers many strong women at work so that the media can better see the real world, where 51 percent are women.
Liberal feminists trust that media generally portrays women as mothers, daughters, or sexual matters. This dispute is very pertinent to analysis of gender roles as well as typecasts in US TV series Two and a Half Men. The protagonist of the series, Charlie Harper, is a prolific creator of Jingle Clocks, who lives with his brother Alan in a beachfront villa dedicated to hedonistic activities. Above all, Charlie is a woman who meets thin, sexy as well as very beautiful women. Despite being forty years old, Charlie hates any kind of long-term commitment to a woman, and when he finally falls in love with a sweet and intelligent woman, he finds it difficult to identify with the fact that he doesn't have sex with her have random woman.
The most popular incidents of Two and a Half Men are protagonist of the sex sign Megan Fox. In the "Camel and Pheromone Filter" category, he played the role of 16-year-old girl with the poor academic background. Once he entered Charlie's house, all the men, comprising Alan's ten-year-old son, missed him. Loving body Appears with some garments on the screen and cleans the balcony window in front of the two men in a very provocative way. This section is best example of Laura Mulvey's idea of "male gaze."
The Big Bang Theory comedy represents a classic American gender role as well as stereotypical ideas about the behavior of men and women from the characters Sheldon, Penny as well as Leonard. Sheldon as well as Leonard are two intellectual physicists with different personalities; Leonard meets a lot of women, while Sheldon is the strangest person can meet. Nevertheless, both of them adapt to the stereotypical picture of "geeks" because they carry different male attributes.
Conclusion
Media plays an important role in making social norms, because numerous types of media, comprising advertising, TV as well as films, can be found nearly everywhere in contemporary culture. For instance, the roles of gender exist only since society accepts them as whole, but the media supports them. Extraordinary audiences need to be conscious of what the media has to offer as well as ensure they are not energetically involved in the culture of domination.
The role of Gender is also determined by advertising with toddlers. My search for an American ad that featured lady playing with action figures as well as men in easy-to-cook stoves was invaluable as well as even when I approached the lime-neutral product on the sidewalk; the advertisement sent several messages, for boys and girls. All the girls relax on the sidewalk, while the young man narrows and ends with a short dance that explains that the only advertiser man is the protagonist.
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