The Portrayal of Females in Society: Sex Sells You have to wonder who exactly Pepsi is trying to sell to when they put Britney Spears in a half shirt with suspenders and low-slung, ripped jeans in a commercial with Bob Dole at the end staring lewdly at the television screen. ... But Pepsi is just one of many advertisers who think that sex, or women dancing around in slinky clothing, sells their product. ... So why do these advertisers use women and sex to sell their product? ... The ads might appeal to a specific social class or to a specific sex. ... Women, everyday, undergo harm...

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In the absence of other traits, a woman wearing a bathing suit might not be coded as a sex object while a fully clothed woman in a suggestive pose could be considered a sex object.... Or maybe even the fact that women are shunned for breast feeding in public. ... Women's upper body is of the same anatomy as that of men yet we are censored for having more fatty tissue on our breast. ... Because they are doing this in public and are showing their breasts it is seen as wrong yet when there are pictures of female breast (that do not show the nipple) in magazines it is socially acceptable. I p...

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It returns to the well-known caveman days where men like to perceive themselves as the hunter, or gatherer, the more dominant of the sexes. ... Marla calls Jack when she has attempted suicide, and her other cry to help is made to Jack when she thinks she has breast cancer. ... Another cancer victim, this time testicular, who as a result of his hormone therapy, has grown breasts. ... This character with his, as Jack refers to, "bitch tits" is the director taking his points and theme to the extremes, as Bob bares no other female qualities besides his breasts. Robert, being the most similar to th...

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In general, women are sought out to have slender waists, perky breasts, and a youthful glow. ... The talk of attraction brought around the questions of homosexuality and what makes members of the same sex attracted to each other. ...

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As their hormones kick in, they begin to develop an interest in the opposite sex. There is also some awkwardness in their interaction with members of the opposite sex. ... During this time of growth there are some physical changes, such as breast growth and the growth of the reproductive system. ...

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Although she has baby blue eyes, a small nose, and large breasts, she is not feminine. ... When he rips open her shirt to expose her large breasts, she has him lobotomized. ... Through sex with Candy, Billy briefly regains his confidence. ...

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From the picture of Sandra Bullock to the article titles on the cover of Marie Claire Magazine, I could see how beauty was not on the inside, but solely on a need for recognition from the opposite sex. ... She is standing upright, pushing out her chest and pulling her arms and shoulders back to increase the size of her breasts making her breasts the main emphasis of the picture. ... While another title read, "87 Sex Secrets You NEED to Know". ... The sex article goes much further than appearance, by going into a relational sense trying to please men. ... There was one article that did not...

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Reproduction Sex and Genetics Life began about 3.6 billion years ago. ... Because of this humans link almost everything to sex, or symbolizing of sex. ... Although, even with hair, humans have differences between the sexes. ... But the differences between humans and primates are neverending, such as the breast and penis", they are much larger. ... Sex and Gender Humans usually never have trouble telling the sex of a person simply by looking at them. ...

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When I married him, my breasts were just beginning to develop" (Shostak, 1981, P. 138) and further on to when she gave birth and when "After (her) children died, (she) just continued to live." ... Kung men would probably find it hard to be interviewed by a caucasian member of the opposite sex, talking about his life story, and even if he did, he"ll probably let pass some important parts that he may have found awkward to reveal. ...

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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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John Steinbeck's short story, "The Chrysanthemums," centers around a woman named Elisa, an avid gardner who is strong, "blocked and heavy" (Steinbeck). When the story begins, Elisa is working in her garden when her husband approaches her and and implies that she has obviously has a gift for planting...

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The nurse attempts to hide her sexuality, and the schizophrenic Chief Bromden, the narrator of the novel, first brings the reader's attention to this denial in saying, "A mistake was made somehow in manufacturing, putting those big, womanly breasts on what otherwise would have been a perfect work, and you can see how bitter she is about it." ... Bibbit's absolute power over Billy is shown when Nurse Ratched, having caught Billy having sex with a prostitute, threatens to tell his mother. ...

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Sociologically, gender roles describe the behaviors and responsibilities prescribed for each sex by a given society. ... Gender must not be mistaken with sex. ... What is really discovered about each of us at that point is not our gender, but simply our sex. ... In this way, gender is intimately connected to social expectations, rather than to sex: we allow the knowledge of the sex of a child to inform us which set of gender characteristics we are supposed to encourage in that child. ... Because it is generally accepted that there are only two sexes, society has created a two-gender model:...

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Legal and economic rights were afforded to both sexes. ... Do not have sex with her... Sexual intercourse was a very important part of this cycle and the Egyptians were not modest about sex. ... If a woman wasn't sure, she could go to the doctor who would perform a detailed examination of her breasts, eyes and skin. ...

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Thats valid until we get into the issue of sex. Sex is a big factor in games these days. They have sex scenes, sex mini games, women bouncing up and down for the pleasure of men. ... So they took the natural route and decided to make the women characters wear nothing but some cloth hanging over their breasts. ... They were treated as sex objects by the players of the game. ...

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I strongly agree with her thoughts and ideas distinguishing sex-role identifications. ... Looking at the magazine cover of Cosmopolitan's June 1999 issue, you see a beautiful, tall, skinny female with blonde hair, green eyes and half her breasts showing. ... Women are socially constructed to believe that they have to be beautiful to be successful and that women stand as sex objects. ...

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Women In The Media Television is the most powerful form of media in our society. The American society is probably the most visually oriented society in the world. It is hard for one to go through a day without placing his eyes on the television at least one time (Munger 23). Many look to the t...

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