Sex evokes a hardwired emotional response that is linked to species survival" (Daye). ... While the use of sex appeal is determined to be an effective way to sell some products, there is a pitfall to consider. ... The stereotype is that young adult women should be skinny and are urged to constantly pursue beauty and sex appeal. ... This would be especially true if the product in question, the protein bar, had nothing to do with sex to begin with. ... The advertiser's argument of promising higher fitness and sex appeal is alluring. ...

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son's external presentations and behaviors (gender expression) related to en she was only 13 and soon began to appear as one in school this year when classes started in August. The 17-year-old Hillsboro High School senior wears fashionable skirts, makeup and a long blonde wig styled with an assortme...

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When the relationship is in disrepair, a woman will feel it has to be repaired before sex, not repaired by sex. ... Women want to be in love before having sex. Men think sex is an expression of love. ... In addition, each sex thinks his or her sex is the correct one. ... Each sex has valid, but different, approaches to love, intimacy, and sex. ...

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There are differences in assumption about sex-typed behavior. ... Consumers often react strongly to sex typed products and also assume certain sex typed behaviors. ... In this commercial, females sex role and males sex role are clearly defined in traditional ways, meaning moms stay home and take care of children and the house while dads work outside. ... Traditional male sex roles are that of tough men, enjoying masculine sports. ... People expect certain sex typed behavior. ...

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Gender may be often associated with sex but it is quite different. ... Same-sex couples are a great example of how stereotyped gender roles do not work when associated with someone's physical sex. ... These are terms that define behaviors, not physical sex. ... Even physically a same-sex relationship can be confusing merely for the reason that both members of the relationship have the same "parts-; how does one physically consummate sex when one's partner has the same sexual organs? ... Same-sex relationship were different people of the same sex possess different gender is one of the...

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Gender is socially constructed to make clear distinctions between the two sexes, and to define their characteristics through gender roles. ... Because children inherently value what is similar to them, they will seek out and imitate sex-appropriate activities. ... Gender is different from sex, which is biologically determined and unchanged by social influence. ... Maccoby (1980) argues that biological factors create behavioral dispositions with different sex hormones. Observations of young male and female rats and monkeys injected with sex hormones reveal that hormones do indeed affect social ...

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At first, they shudder and withdraw and refuse the idea of no sex until, with the help of the women from Sparta and Thebes, they are impelled to agree. ... When their husbands return from battle, the women reject sex and stand guard at Acropolis. The sex strike, portrayed in risqué episodes, finally pressure the men of Athens and Sparta to consent to a peace treaty. In Lysistrata, Lysistrata defies the system of the oikos as represented as sex and attacks the privilege of war. Because of the sex strike, the male world is forced to end the war. ...

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The key to a dual-sex system is the understanding of gender in society and culture through Africa before colonization (485). African society groups, such as the Igbo culture are defined and represented by sex; these groups have no gender, and so therefore, each sex manages their own affairs (485). The dual-sex political systems give women power in their society verses the Western single-sex political system where the roles are to be held by a man (485). ...

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Although it may be true, Pollitt say that it's "the ideology of flexible and converging sex roles fits our children's future," but she did not quite supported or explained this thought too well. What I would like to know is exactly how and why flexible and converging sex roles fits our children's future. ... In my opinion, I think that the sex roles today are based on society's influences. For example, if one goes to a children store he will see that there's a section for boys and section for girls, grouped by the way sex roles are stereotyped. ... Genetically, men m...

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Since the 1940's, movies have predominately portrayed women as sex symbols. ... The first stereotype is a beautiful sex goddess. ... In the 1950's women are either sex goddess or homemakers, but they are both looking for husbands. ... She is conservative and elegant, definitely not a sex symbol. ... In the 1940's women's characters were stereotyped as sex objects. ...

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The majority of the ads in the magazines were of the same sex as the people who buy them. ... Advertising executives know that sex sells, and what is found in the majority of these ads was that these models are drop dead gorgeous and barely wearing any clothes. ... They, along with society, place the two sexes in unequal positions of wealth, power, and privilege. ... Slowly but surely, each sex is learning to take on certain character traits of the opposite sex. ... Men and women are portrayed in a certain way to appeal to the audience of the opposite sex. ...

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Children may be treated differently, depending upon the labeled sex. As well, a child will act differently by a certain age according to their sex and what they perceive through their gender identity and social influences. ... This is explored one way through social learning, in which theorists believe that parents take a part in shaping a child's sex role and behavior through reinforcement. ... "Some evidence also suggests that toddlers whose parents are more consistent in rewarding sex typed toy choices or play behavior, and who's mothers favor traditional family sex roles...

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Using this metaphor to illustrate the commonly occurring conflicts between men and women, Gray explains how these differences can come between the sexes and prohibit mutually fulfilling loving relationships. Relationships with the opposite sex have been one of the hardest things to handle nowadays. ... According to relationship counselor John Gray, difficulties in relationships between a man and a woman lie in the lack of understanding and acceptance of the differences between the two sexes. ...

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The man may think that the woman is leading him on, that if she agrees to go with him that it is an invitation to have sex. ... Others say that pornography desensitizes men to women so that they do not know when a women is or is not willing to have sex. Men who are sexually frustrated often attempt to rape women they know because they cannot get sex any other way. ...

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As asserted by sociologists, "ones sex is biological, whilst gender is social". The distinction between sex and gender differentiates sex (anatomy of an individual's reproductive system) from gender (social roles based on the sex of the person, usually culturally learned). ... This is generally described as one's private sense of being a man or a woman, however, some individuals do not identify with some of the aspects of gender that are assigned to their biological sex. ... Subsequently, as gender is a social construct, conflict theorists would acknowledge how gender r...

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This is another blemish on society because despite the obstacles woman have overcome for years to be seen as more than the weaker sex, mass media still portrays woman as objects. ... Despite all the advances made over the years often times we are still seen as nothing but the weaker sex and are objectified to the point of utter ridiculousness. ... Carl's Jr. another huge corporation chooses to show women wearing next to nothing, devouring a burger and purely selling this food with pure sex appeal. ... Beauty and sex sell, but the world also needs to be reminded that there is more to life ...

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In other words, school systems are pushing the binary normativity, and the gender-sex agreement of our societies with gendered dress codes. ... Although the GLCPS handbook does not apply sex or gender into their policies, there are many cases that school administration will cross the handbook in order to enforce sex-gender agreement. ... It is hard to see that not everyone does not know the difference between sex and gender. ...

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 Gender Identity and Gender Role Awareness in Infancy and Early Childhood Psychology of Human Development Gender Identity and Gender Role Awareness in Infancy and Early Childhood The sexual development of the children is of great importance to the parents, and they go a long way to se...

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The separation of sexes by media raises such an interesting issue of nature or nurture. ... Molding the sexes into consumers who later as an adult will be easily shaped to buy specific things. ... Even the language we speak everyday makes us think in such a fashion that clearly separates the sexes and the roles given. ...

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Simone De Beauvoir's work relates to how women are seen as sex objects to the male gender. She believes that a woman's condition hasn't changed as sex objects, ever since the ancient Greek times (De Beauvoir 1952,343). She writes:"The mere presence of her flesh swells and erects the male sex- (De Beauvoir 1952, 345)."Because she is reduced to servicing men through her sex for either pleasure or procreation women is exploited" (De Beauvoir 1952,342 ). ... She realizes that she has fit into a stereotype of what society wants a woman to be; passive towards the greater sex; men. ...

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They are forced to be the dominant sex, and to be the stronger sex. ... Now the term might now have been around but there have definitely always been opposite sex attraction and sexual pleasure. It also said that sex wasn't based on pleasure but purely for reproduction. ... It is mainly facts about sex and heterosexuality. ...

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Love knows no gender. you can tell me that you are as straight as a ruler, but then the next day meet someone of the same gender that you find can contaminate you with their every being, to turn their dreams in to your and make every waking and breasting moment you spend apart torture for you. what if you grew up knowing nothing about 'girls and boys' and who is supposed to like who, would you be attracted to people of the same sex. honestly, when thinking about it, the only difference of a hetero couple and a gay couple is that the hetero couple is capable of reproduction while the ...

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When their husbands return from battle, the women refuse to have sex with them. This sex strike, which is portrayed in a series of exaggerated and clamorous sexual insinuation, finally convinces the men of Athens and Sparta to agree to a peace treaty. ... The women don't like the fact that the only power women have had over men is to withhold sex. ... The underlining notion of returning home is also not specifically because of their "sex-starvation," but from the burden of guilt for being away from their family, their chores and their domestic responsibilities. ... Except for sex and t...

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Their condescending tones and joking manner of a woman's things, separate the sexes, and result in the loss evidence that would provide a motive for the murder. ... In further demonstrating the separation of the sexes, the County Attorney comments on the unkempt kitchen. ... Henderson to respond with "Ah, loyal to your sex, I see."" Clearly, the stage is set for a struggle between the sexes. ... "Ah, loyal to your sex, I see. " says the County Attorney" (Glaspell 1413)....

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Gender Roles Gender Roles are one of the various topics we have learned about in Gender roles are a collection of attitudes and behaviors that are considered normal and appropriate in a specific culture for people of a particular sex. ... The expectations placed on females and males are so very different it creates a wall between the two sexes. ...

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