Movies

I was forced to watch the new Angelina Jolie movie "wanted" last night and it made me realize that if a women is the leading action person in the movie that they are always beautiful and sexy. I started to think about it and realized that there isn't a single movie that if the lead action hero is women and she isn't viewed as a sex symbol. I also realized the same for men. Most of the time if the lead action hero is a man then he is also viewed as a sex symbol. The question I present to the blog is can an action hero be an effective action hero without being sexy?

Gender Based Insurance rates

I linked an article on the title "Gender Based Insurance rates." This is the news article obviously about Insurance rates based on gender.  Women pay more than men.  I still do not understand why women need to pay more than men.  If I go with traditional view of men and women, men are the one who work outside and higher risk of danger and women take care themselves better than men.  Even if I don't think traditionally, science proves that men have higher risk of getting heart attack than women do.  I do not know that how they calculate, but I believe it there should not be some difference BASED ON gender.

American society does focus a great deal on the perfect body, but think about the face as well. I mean there's so much airbrushing done on these celebrities and models. They also use tons of make-up, even on men. Perfect skin and hair also plays a huge role on how Americans define beauty. Also think about how much money these products cost. It is such an effective advertising strategy. Wear this 20 dollar bottle foundation and you'll look like this movie star.
I think at least some of them are starting to make progress but this perception has been going on for decades so changing it will probably take twice as long

So I was just thinking how interesting it was today in class that majority of people when presenting looked at the way that women are portrayed in the media and how overwhelming it has become that women are to be only sex objects that can not think on their own or hold any short of responsible job. With that said looking at all the magazine ad, tv shows, and music videos I know that I still watch them and wonder if society is so concerned with creating a certain image that we must conform to what do you think would happen if all of the different media outlets were taken away? Would our society still so harshly judge physical beauty and why is it in the U.S. dominatly we focus so much on the body and nothing else?

Curious..

So I was talking to one of my guy friends the other night at the bar. We were talking about girls who dress up or don't for classes. He said, "You know what guys think of girls who dont dress up right? That they are taken."
I find it really hard to believe that people even notice or think about that while going to class.
I wonder if that's true. I don't see the point honestly because I'm not really thinking about picking up a date while I'm having a hard enough time satying awake to pay attention to the information.
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McDonalds Commerical( Stereotypes)

stereotypes at its best, yet not offensive