Analysis Summary!

First of all, I just wanted to thank everyone very much for reading any of my blogs! I appreciate any comments that you would like to leave, whether they are positive or negative. I would also like to thank my gender communication teacher, Dr. Danielle Stern, for introducing me to WordPress.com and allowing me to [...]

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30) 2 Song Lyrics–Ur So Gay and One of the Boys

For this final post, I actually decided to use two Katy Perry songs, comparing and contrasting them. The songs that I am going to use are “Ur So Gay” and “One of the Boys.” I feel that Perry was an adequate source to select gendered lyrics from because a lot of her songs either establish [...]

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29) Article #1–Palin’s Beliefs

I found a very interesting article online entitled “Sarah Palin’s Retrograde Gender Politics,” and I have decided to share it with you all via this post. This article brings the subkect of gender into politics, and discusses Sarah Palin’s gender role and respective goal for gender in the most recent election campaign. In the the [...]

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28) TV Show #5–In Plain Sight

This next post is about a television show on USA Network called In Plain Sight. It is a show about Mary Shannon, “a U.S. Marshall in the witness protection program who spends her time relocating federal witnesses.” (www.IMDB.com, 2008) Mary is a witty and strong woman who does not tolerate idiocy and isn’t afraid to [...]

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27) TV Show #4–Law and Order: SVU

For my next post, I decided to write about a scene from an episode of Law and Order: SVU. The SVU in this series stands “Special Victims Unit,” a unit that deals with sexually based offenses such as rapes, rape-homicides, sexual assaults, etc. Because the crimes that the SVU deal with are based on sexuality [...]

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26) TV Show #3–The Office

This post is about another one of my favorite prime time shows, The Office on NBC. For anyone who has not seen this show, I will provide a brief description of it and tell why I love it so. The Office is a clever and seemingly candid show about a hilarious office staff, run by [...]

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25) Movie #2–Cinderella

This next entry is about one of my favorite Disney movies, Cinderella. For anyone who has not seen Cinderella, it is a fairytale which actually may have originated as far back in history as the first century BC in the classical antiquity period of Ancient Greece! Upon researching the story and its origins, I have [...]

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24) TV Station #2–Spike TV

The second television station that I deemed worthy of note is Spike TV: “Television for Men.” Spike is a television station dedicated to men’s entertainment–it broacasts everything from sexy woman “eye-candy” to fast car chases to toilet humor. Some of the shows that regularly appear on Spike include Deadliest Warrior, The Ultimate Fighter, Guy’s Choice [...]

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23) TV Show #2–Family Guy

This next post is about the television show Family Guy; there are certain gender stereotypes that occur in the show in general, and some specific examples will be chosen for analysis. At first, one might have a hard time trying to descrive the dynamic of the show Family Guy. However, once I thought about it, [...]

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22) Art #1–”The Three Graces”

This post is about an oil painting named “The Three Graces,” a beautiful work by the Italian High Renaissance painter Raphael. It depicts three naked or transparently clothed women holding apples. The two women on the outside are facing towards us, and the one in the middle is facing away; however, they are all embracing [...]

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