The Portrayal of Females in Society: Sex Sells You have to wonder who exactly Pepsi is trying to sell to when they put Britney Spears in a half shirt with suspenders and low-slung, ripped jeans in a commercial with Bob Dole at the end staring lewdly at the television screen. ... So why do these advertisers use women and sex to sell their product? ... Why you ask? ... Kilbourne does an excellent job convincing the viewer of the offensive attempts the advertising industry makes to suck you into buying their product. ... This is obviously true, because society does not have the desire...

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Male and Female sex is based on a set of characteristics and also have scientific proves. ... Understanding how male and female are sex dichotomy, there is also how society constitute the gender. ... Even the clothes, they do not want to floral and garish for boys. ... The sex dichotomy has already created the boundaries and also the pressure of society label of your gender through your sex when you were born. For some societies now, they still not accepted the gender that do not display their sex and act and get behaviors into the social norms. ...

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The sexes are different because their brains are different. (Moir, 1991) In the past ten years, there have been many researches concerning what makes the sexes different. ... The brain may look perfectly symmetrical at first glance but a more precise inspection will show you otherwise. ... While in a research done by Anne Moir, (Brain Sex: The Real Difference Between Men and Women, 1991) she mentions specific characteristics that men have and woman do not and vice versa. Men have a very high spatial ability. ...

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This essay explains how woman are in need of people in their lives and how we do create stories in our minds that may be fairytale-like, but they do serve a purpose to us woman. ... When you are just a nude picture, in a sense, you are a sex object. ... I believe that if you do decide to engage in that type of business, where you are posing nude for pictures, stripping, or selling your body for sex, then yes, you are a sex object. ... He also discussed the use of posing nude and that it makes you a sex object. ... Women have to speak up for themselves and let the men know how they feel, in...

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For example when someone says that woman is beautiful if there is not a standard or guideline, how do we define beauty? ... People were in same sex relationships and did not have to be concerned about harm happening to them. ... Basically means we have created a society that polices how we do things even at the elementary and younger level. ... " (Big Think) People who believe that how you born either as a male or female makes up your identity do not agree with a person deciding on who or what they are. ... The verse from the book of Jeremiah "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,...

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For example when someone says that woman is beautiful if there is not a standard or guideline, how do we define beauty? ... People were in same sex relationships and did not have to be concerned about harm happening to them. ... Basically means we have created a society that polices how we do things even at the elementary and younger level. ... " (Big Think) People who believe that how you born either as a male or female makes up your identity do not agree with a person deciding on who or what they are. ... The verse from the book of Jeremiah "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,...

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Think about what you do everyday and how much of it relies on gender and then think about Toby. What public restroom do you go in? What kind of clothes do you wear? What store do you buy them in? What colors do you buy? ...

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Think about what you do everyday and how much of it relies on gender and then think about Toby. What public restroom do you go in? What kind of clothes do you wear? What store do you buy them in? What colors do you buy? ...

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She does not have agency in order to make decisions or think about herself. ... And also, we have to separate sex, gender and body, too. ... For twenty-four hours at least, you can have a new hymen. ... "I'll have you bagged neat and tidy. ... Is that how to know another human being?...

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Politics also played a key role in showing how women and men are unequal. ... She did this after hearing a panel of superintendents boast about their programs for disadvantage boys, in disbelief she asked the men, " 'Couldn't you have classes and include both boys and girls?' ... " He said no and told her, "You guys deserve as much as we earn because you have to work harder than any of us.... Once Title IX was enacted the amendment faced many problems because schools did not know how to integrate it, how to use it or even how to interpret it at all whatsoever. .....

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The question we examined is: Do you agree or disagree that it is sometimes necessary to discipline a child with a good hard spanking? ... Over the years both sexes approval ratings of it have dropped, but maintaining the pattern of men favoring it more than women. ... When cross-tabulating the Sex variable with the Spanking variable in the GSS 96 data file, the chart presents the responses of respondents to the question: Do you agree or disagree that it is sometimes necessary to discipline a child with a good, hard spanking? ... Unfortunately, the question of Do you agree or disagree that...

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This example depicts how discrimination, even including sexism, can be taught. People's perceptions of race and sex are often relative to the culture they live in, and in that context, how it will be categorized. ... Not only do these woman have to be responsible for their own actions, but for the man's actions as well. ... Career women have also been big supporters of the equality of the sexes. ... Whatever you want to call it, femininity was lost. ...

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Since we live in a world that for a very long time up until recently, had only been observing of only two particular sexes; the male sex and female sex, there has forever been an ageless conflict and as one of my classmates so bluntly put it, "Men and women are eternal partners.... I have lived as a man. ... From the moment that you are born, you are assigned a sex. You are put into one of two categories, male or female and with there being nearly 7 billion people in the world and the projected population to only rise and reach 9.5 billion by the year 2050, I can kind of see where the gen...

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When you fill out an application for a credit card or even a survey there is one question that is always bound to jump up and out at you every time. ... It is reported that girls have a larger corpus callosum than boys do. ... The problem was that they were to go hunting for mammoth but they had to put together a plan on how they were going to do this. ... They do not have the vigor and risk-taking nature of the boys. ... He believes the teachers should not do things based on what they believe that particular sex is attuned to doing. ...

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Indeed, the media is finally taking notice of how powerful, strong, and compelling female musicians are, but these incredibly iconic females are stealing the spotlight of other female artists who are doing what they can to erupt into the music industry. ... The club owners usually think you're a groupie when you show up early to load in or go backstage to chill, people tell you after the shows 'I thought that was gonna suck because you're a girl, but it didn't!,' and critics describe what you were wearing at the show as opposed to what you sounded like" Even for...

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Despite the amount of dialogue and discourse on the subject, there remains little consensus and much disagreement on how to deal effectively and manage equal opportunities for both sexes in school sports. ... This is because girls have historically been the underrepresented sex in school sports and athletics. ... The question then becomes, how do administrators determine which sports (and which positions) are safe and which are not? ... There are also situations where a girl may have a girl's team to play on, but still seeks to participate on the boys' team. ... If you look at gender...

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By a male telling the story one might connect that a man would know best about not trusting their sex, this too could have influenced the author's view on men. ... Now the father told the girl to jump down the steps [ ]"Jump, Izzy, jump" [ ]"Papa's got you Papa"ll catch you... Although it's not directly stated, Cary's story implies that she and her father do not have a strong relationship. ... But that's not the only evidence that shows Cary's uneasiness with the male sex. ... ""Do you like school?" ...

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This film demonstrates to the viewer how the modern men of today feel their power and purposes are fading and highlights the extreme men will go to in order for them to regain their important masculinity. ... This idea is overpowering in this movie and one thing this film aims to do is make it's point as clear as possible about the modern day men in society. ... If you look closely enough, she could even be the one who represents Jack's true self, not the ideal he creates in Tyler Durden. ... Having been told she only has a short time to live she confesses her last wish to have sex w...

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In Kanner's article she writes about how men are expected to maintain this macho fazade. ... The gender of X does not matter to the other children, but because X liked dolls and wore overalls the parents cared. ... Yet, if these "cowboys of the new era" do not maintain a respectable social circle or have a pedigree from a institution for higher learning, they are looked upon by society as rejects. ... Everyone is caught up with the fine line distinction between what separates each sex. ... In Gould's article she claims that gender bending is over dramatized and that people should...

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The father says that she is the new hired man and he replies, " could have fooled me," "I thought it was only a girl. ... Now from a feminist point of view you would think that a girl would find this repulsive. ... The name also symbolizes the difference between the sexes when this story took place. ... This shows how the parents were more concerned with their son and that he could do no wrong. ... They said to me, "Why weren't you watching him?" ...

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Interestingly, not one single-sex commercial featuring girls shows any act of aggression (Bowker 1998). ... Understandably, how schools emphasize athletics over academics is going to have some influence over the way young men think and visualize the importance of physical prowess, but the true legitimator is how the student body of the school sees athletes. ... Invariably you will find on the cover, men flaunting their toned, muscular bodies, and often you will find them with a seductively beautiful and toned woman by their side. ... William Pollack, a Harvard clinical psychologist, talks abou...

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The play would then represent the inferiority of women of Elizabethan times, and how sexism had become extremely prevalent within society. ... Miranda is referred to as "my rich gift- and as a "prize, honour you- that Prospero "tenders to thy hand-. ... Miranda, also, is represented as a form of slave, as she symbolizes the notion that women were to do as men wanted, through her submission and obedience to her father Prosper, and later to Ferdinand. ... As a Feminist's understanding of The Tempest is able to use the representations of gender within Elizabethan society to compare and under...

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Interestingly, not one single-sex commercial featuring girls shows any act of aggression (Bowker 1998). ... I have covered the socialisation process showing how physical ability is objectified and legitimated in males. ... Invariably you will find on the cover, men flaunting their toned, muscular bodies, and often you will find them with a seductively beautiful and toned woman by their side. ... How often are men asked "Did you see the game last night?" or "How about them Leafs?" ...

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"Would you?" ... Would you?" ... He can't pull it out, so I have to do it for him. ... This also proves that guys like sex more than anything else. ... That's how important sports are to men. ...

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Also, an environment full of friends who do not support a person's goals and what they want to do can create damage to their identity and just because of someone else they do not reach their full potential in being who they want to be. ... The knowledge through experience and external forces of learning and asking questions will determine how he want to live his life and as for storm will be able to do the same. ... "This sex-biased division of labor leads necessarily to gender stereotypes and sex differences in behavior" (Lippa 112). ... However, this can be harmful to one&#x...

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