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Disproportionate Equality has been created by Natalie Rivas for Social Stratification class 5303. Enjoy!
Showing posts with label stereotypes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stereotypes. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Construction of Gender Roles


The majority of media sources have helped to create gender roles for men and women. If you think about it, women are usually the spouse cleaning, cooking, tending to the family, and handling household duties. On the other hand, men are the dominate bread winners of the family.

This video is clipping from various forms of media which demonstrates how gender roles have been constructed and why they most likely will continue.

Male Gender Role struggle

This video brings light to an issues concerning gender roles that is often over looked. Everyone knows women have struggled for decades for rights and equality, however, men are now having to define their unequal roles in society.

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Xtranormal creation: Kate's Gender Role

This is the link to my xtranormal project!

The video i created discusses female gender roles in relation to status and marriage. Throughout history women have fought to to be noticed and recognized in society. However, stigma still exist and the media and various other forms of entertainment add to this narrow minded view. This technological era we live in also influences people to believe that women are still subordinate and are merely sexual object ready to be taken. Enjoy my xtranormal creation! thanks

Stereotypical Acuvue


This commercial for Acuvue contact lenses outlines racial and gender stereotypes. The first teen, who appears to be african american, says one day they be wearing my jersey. The second teen, who's a female,  says one day he'll ask me to dance. Finally the third teen, a white male, says one day i'll be giving orders instead of taking them.

Why is it that Acuvue decided that the african american teen would do well in sports or that the female just wanted the attention of a boy or why did the white teen want to become the boss. These gender and racial stereotypes are the very thing that minority groups have been fighting. This ad only exemplifies inequality and it appears as though it's bound to continue if the media purists with commercials that promote gender and racial expectations.