With these functions in mind, one can say that the media is a tool or institution that strongly influences people's attitudes and values. ... I am always amazed and aghast at the misrepresentation of women in music videos and thirty minute sitcoms on TV. In music videos women are seen as a prize catch; a passive thing that can be consumed or used and explored in anyway that pleases a man. There are many music videos that serve to objectify women and in most cases women submit to the whim and fancy of the men in the video. ... Men's perceptions of women are profoundly influenced ...

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There are also many debates as to the influence of innate personality and its influence to the different gender roles. ... While the Willendorf era's main source of influence emanated from the values in society, the Barbie era's influence focused on the marketing and benefits of commercial interests. ... Barbie's role as a teenage fashion model has had close association and use in popular youth pop culture (The Barbie Effect, n.d.).They are used extensively in music, movies, videos and art. ... Both genders converge in definition by embracing aspects of flawless completion, fash...

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The truth about black men, gays, and homophobia There's nothing easy about being black, but the struggle for a positive African American Identity is filled with support for fighting it. ... African American men and gays are more exposed to influence by definition that come from the majority, then by internal group definition. ... As pioneers of gangsta rap members of NWA (niggers with an attitude) can be given the credit for what has now become commonplace acceptance of anti-gay rhetoric in rap music. (Harper, 1999) Even the so-called "positive" rappers have weighed in on the subje...

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As history progressed, major occurrences, namely the rise of the feminist thought cycle, has had heavy influence on this steady process of literary devices becoming conventional in our everyday discourse, in order to define those prevalent changes in the way that we perceive the differences in sexes. ... However, although this is seen as a positive act, males are now trailing far behind, with the vast majority of society overlooking the stereotypes that discriminate and connote negatively towards males. ... This "scientific" study, that fairly tested both men and women and their reac...

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The tempo is upbeat and music like rock and roll with him dancing faster than the female. ... She dances in positive space, showing isolation. ... This change reveals the influence the boys have on her life by just being there. ...

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Nevertheless, it is necessary to say that at the present moment fashion has a deeper influence on the life of people and possess more than just frivolous reasons for its existance. ... For instance: music, sexual orientation, some kind of club and so on [Barnard 62]. ...

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