Gender Socialization

"Killing Us Softly" is about the world advertising of women, it describes how women are portrayed as "Sex Objects" in the media. She demonstrates the changes from the earlier versions to the current versions of how women are objectified and presented as a sex object, which demonstrate society to think it is acceptable to commit violence against women. She explains how advertising sell values, images, concepts of love, sexuality, romance, success, and who we are or should be as women. She also mentions how the dominant culture are creating these problems for women and men, how women are characterized and man are not. She talks about the Culture Message that its beeing presented to teenage girls which is "The more you subtract the more you add". By this ads they show teenage girls not to be a fool of themselves and that women are not powerfull.
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"A call to Men" speech is about the socialization of men. Tony porter talk about his life experiences and how he grew up in a neighborhood which he had to learn to be tough, strong, dominating, show no pain and emotions with the ecception of anger and fear. He talks about the ways that men think about women which was that women were weak and men were strong. He describes the Socialization of men which its described as "THE MAN BOX"  which defines what it was to be a man, which was not to cry, express their feelings and emotions, not to show weakness, and to have power control over women. He also explains the collective socialization of men as less values, property, objectification, and violence agains women. He mentions the Foundation of violenve against women as domestic violence, sexual assult, stalking, rape, dating violence, harrasment and porn. Men and women are part of the solutions and more of the problems. Rather than showing this negative concepts to teenagers and kids they should more less show them that is okay to be dominant, show feelings and emotions, equality, and only be friends with women and no more than that.
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I believe these Gender socializations are one of the biggest concerns in our society and how its so open to the public by advertising, tv channels and influence and so on, yet our society charactized us all to be the same.

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