... to escape from social subjectivity in their dealings with gender. For many people the purpose of games is to escape reality. Specifically role-playing games have a focus on assuming the role of character different than the one the player lives in real life. The ability to ... based on the online reality. For many players this means fully assuming the role of the opposite sex. The gender of a player in role playing games by many definitions should be irrelevant, but once discovered the gender of a player, specifically females, will greatly influence the game play. In first ... are female ...

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... (LAWSC) with casts plays (not necessarily Shakespearean plays) with all female casts. In 1995 the LAWSC cast Hamlet in an all women ensemble. It has been brought up that a woman playing the role of Hamlet will create a tension between representations of masculinity and femininity. In Elizabethan theatre, males were the only actors on the stage. In 1920 a female Hamlet was produced ... character. If one cannot overcome a higher, feminine voice saying Hamlet's lines, then they do not understand the play. As stated before, there is a long theatrical history of actresses playing Hamlet. The...

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... lazy selfish, inconsiderate husbands as well as poor fathers. What is amazing is that now I actually pay attention to the small details, commercials that aired in between the show depicted a wimpy guy with a hot blonde. They are playing trivial pursuit the question is "how much does the average man's brain weigh? ... Response is not much". So this how men are to be viewed from now on, I know that not all men are great fathers or good people. ... episode I chose to watch started off with the baby daughter writing in blocks E=MC squared. Starting off the girl is smart, then the family is ...

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... can be seen how the ads make appeals to the human desires of total control, power, and confidence. The ad for the Adidas deodorant features the silhouettes of three guys playing basketball under the blazing hot sun. Mysteriously their faces are not shown, nor the colors that they wear, they remain secret. There is just the image of them ... playing basketball. With the presence of the fading orange background, it seems as if these guys have been playing all day. The color scheme of the ad is very dull. Midway through the ad, on the right hand side, there ... ...

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... being a truck for a boy or a doll for a girl. The stereotyping here is the interaction between parent and child when playing with the toy. For example, when a parent is playing with a truck they are more likely just to make sounds but when they are playing with a doll they are more likely to be verbal (http://ematusov.soe.udel.edu). Being exposed to gender stereotyping ... ...

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... eye on the infant while she was away. The juvenile female that I observed shocked me in her similarity to a young human child. She was constantly moving around, playing with branches, climbing trees, and playing with her infant sister. At one point, she even climbed up about 30 feet into the air on a leafless tree, and sat at the top observing her surroundings ... were seated around their mother. The corner where the mother was seated appeared to be the home base for the children, for they would always return to that spot after playing. It was as if a human mother were sitting on a park...

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... giving them the idea that there are limits to what they can do. In today's society, parents encourage these ideas without even realizing it. For example, girls are praised for playing with dolls but boys are often ignored for displaying nurturing behavior. Likewise, boys get attention for being good at sports while girls often don't often receive encouragement for being active ... , girls usually spend more time with their mothers and boys with their fathers. Therefore, girls end up doing more "girlie" things such as playing with make-up and helping their mother make dinner. Boys do "man...

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... in a local Blockbuster Video, Rogers Video or any retailer such as Wal-Mart or Best Buy for that matter isn't really a hard thing to accomplish. Now, finding a video game that encompasses attributes that don't target specific gender groups is a much harder task. Most of the top video games on the market are ... often portrays them as props or bystanders and they are the ones who usually need rescuing by a male character. You don't even have to begin playing the game before you realize that boys are the primary target of manufacturers and merchants. Just by examining the cover of some top...

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... these mothers live in the boon docks, the log cabin in the U.P., or Hopkins Michigan. The nuclear female has been torn partly through the woman's rights movement. (Taylor) Females are now going to school and becoming doctors and lawyers. They are not expected to be homemakers any longer. Females are sometimes the sole provider or even the single parent of a family ... look for them. Not to mention the activity level of most kids in our society. Children are constantly busy. Some are living at two households. Others are playing sports, or participating in a play, or playing in the band. ...

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... would wander over to toys designed for the opposite gender. The toys that they had for boys in the store looked like they were typical toys that boys have been playing with for generations. Some of them were action figures, nerf guns, legos, male Disney character stuffed animals, footballs, toy airplanes, and numerous building sets. The girl's side of the store ... sports equipment that encourages them to interact with other males and secretly teach them to have the desire to win. The action figures of the male section depict the boys playing with a hero action figure that has to slay t...

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... can usually be categorized by where they are from as shown in the second video we watched. In bigger cities the average person was more accepting to women playing men's roles and men playing women's roles as the lesbian family pointed out, but in smaller towns people did not accept changing gender roles and that is where I believe most of the work ... ...

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... a person must obey this stereotype and show no feelings. No matter the situation, men are not allowed to cry. Many men feel the need to prove their masculinity. As children, playing high school sports is the way to be strong and fit in. Dunking the ball over an opponent or smashing the other teams quarterback is an excellent way to prove ... be little more than a recipe for creating bad marriages, social misfits, moral degenerates, sadists, latent rapists and just plain louts" . Sports can have a positive effect on the person who is playing. It is when young men feel they have to play t...

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... and daughters. Sons are expected to be strong, firm and alert but daughters are expected to be delicate and soft. The activities that girls stage at early ages like playing with dolls and playing house, thereby assume a caretaking, domestic role. According to social learning theory, infants receive reinforcement for behaviour that is gender appropriate. In a study of first born infants and their ... ...

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... male player would become a target for fans for physically injuring a female. In addition can you name many men that are comfortable with tackling a female. Meaning that they would not be playing their best and the whole standard of their game would be lowered. There are enough female competitors around so that females can competitively play football against each other. Furthermore, there ... would in a female-only team or a male-only team as its easy to get injured. Football is a contact sport and on the field there are no allowances for size. A male playing against a female during a ga...

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... a woman to venture out into the world outside of the home, but the expectation of "dinner needing to be on the table" was still upheld. Women have been playing the role of a "desperate housewife" for hundreds of years, but needless to say that did not mean women did not possess the same intellect as men. Women have ... always been intelligent and now women are beginning to outscore men on intelligence tests, proving Upson's position that being a genius thrives beyond biology. However, Upson fails to acknowledge that female geniuses did in fact exist ... always been geniuses though not ...

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... any playground, schoolroom, or home in America. Commercials on TV show these same characteristics everyday. When a commercial for a Barbie doll comes on, you don't see a boy playing with it. In fact you don't see a boy in the commercial at all. Just the opposite is true for boys" toys. Girls aren't seen in their commercials either. ... As a result, a woman's identity is based on how well she serves others. But this idea doesn't hold as true as it once did. Women are now being taught to be stronger than men and to be more independent. Such TV shows as Oprah show this idea every day. You ...

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... being a strong young boy then all the sudden puberty hit me. This was a struggle for me. I thought I had to protect my so called tough guy image for my age and now I"m having growth spurts that made me uncoordinated and then my voice changing. All this can be and is embarrassing to a young man. And on top of all that ... girls to deal with. They had never been a distraction to me before. I had played with tomboys before on little league teams and now things weren't the same anymore. I really was taught how to be a little boy. If things were different in my household I guess things might...

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... the whole. I believe that if this subject was brought up earlier then 72 that it might have been easier to fix, but there is now just too many athletes and programs to change and make equal between male and females. You can not now make it equal and fair for females without making it unfair for those males who are cut out ... . Now as to not to be total blind on the fact I do recognize that it is important for females and males to be equal in everything ... up, but I believe that until that happens, this subject should be over looked. You simply can not make sports scholarships and team...

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... and being under males. So she began to trade on the side, secretly, without her boss's permission. She got her own clients, and worked her way up. My mother is now making $350,000 a year, is still one of the few women in the business, and is more successful than most of the men doing the same job she is. I think ... has showed that she is capable of doing anything someone without a handicap can do, and more. We are capable of playing any sports just as well as a man, and some even better. Women's professional softball leagues are growing every year. They are now getting paid, not yet ne...

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... field hockey and became a member of his high school's junior varsity team. He didn't do this to start trouble, he simply grew up with the game and wanted to continue playing. Once he was on the team people started to complain that it wasn't fair. How is there supposed to be equality if something such as Title IX works to help ... seems more and more girls are becoming interested in sports. Girls grow up around it and there is a world of opportunities out there for them now. With professional leagues like the WNBA, LPGA, and others, girls can now make a career out of a sport the same way...

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... boys and girls, their brains, their achievement, and their nature. The results of these studies are surprising because it appears that males are getting behind. From the early 1990's until now, psychologists have been doing extensive research about the differences between the male and female brains, and they have revealed a lot of interesting information. When boys enter their first year of ... in behavior problems. When the boy reaches the ages of 13 to 17 years old, in many cases the boy will be found in the weight room building muscle mass; playing violent, bloody video games; downlo...

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... such a high position. I cant wait to see a woman president but the chances of that happening in a sexist society will be rare. Every term given to a women is that of a servant. Now a days there are men who sit at home and take care of the children and home but what are they called? Househusband? No but there is the term housewife, kitchen ... the decision making powers. It is written in the bible that women, as well as children and servants, are all servants to man. The term "lady" has the meaning of playing a subservient role and not being taken seriously. I did not think this because ...

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... sports and that is why I do not understand all the controversy. The statistics shown above clearly show that women have been getting more opportunities than men for about thirty years now. One other issue to that has many people, especially women, raising eyebrows is the correlation between an athlete's education and the sport they participate in. Statistics show that Division I football ... a degree. On the contrary, 65 percent of the women's basketball players, 66 percent of women's track, and 71 percent of all other women athletes earned their degrees within six years playing sports ...

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... the delicate, subordinate female temperament. Viewing the female as the "damsel in distress", too weak and fragile to protect herself, is a stereotypical characterization derived from the male always playing the strong, manly, courageous hero. Females have always been handled as if they are made of glass, not only unable to think for themselves, but unable to do anything at ... ...

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... channels just because their viewership is not as high as compared to men's. So channel owners earn more by broadcasting men matches as there are more people watching it. Women playing the same sport do not get the same kind of fame or popularity which usually a man gets. This discourages other women to play sport as they don't get what they ... ...

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