In my paper I want to look at how masculinity and sport function as the root of male violence as well as physical dominance, and how the media further portrays male violence as a part of our society. ... (Horrock1995: 154) This shows us that male violence with in the field of sport is considered ok allowing popular male athletes the freedom to commit violent acts with less punishment. ... In this fashion homosexuality in our society is the least male attribute. ... This statement shows that young males tend to find security among other males and athletics. ... Throughout this century, a ...

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The females do the movement of crossing their leg on the other one and crossing their arms over their body which is a protection device, also a close of sexuality and then opening. ... This illustrates the male as showing off. ... It consists of only one male dancer and three females. ... By crossing and uncrossing her body we are shown a sexual freedom. ... The male is more dominant here as he is gaining back power. ...

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It seems that there is a pervasive fear among all males that the worst possible insult is to be labelled a female. ... As boys grow older, their bodies develop and they enter junior high and high school. ... I have covered the socialisation process showing how physical ability is objectified and legitimated in males. ... Invariably you will find on the cover, men flaunting their toned, muscular bodies, and often you will find them with a seductively beautiful and toned woman by their side. These toned and muscled men are seen and depicted by society as the ideal body type for men. ...

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This legitimization teaches males that boys and men are not allowed to cry. ... As boys grow older, their bodies develop and they enter junior high and high school. ... Invariably you will find on the cover, men flaunting their toned, muscular bodies, and often you will find them with a seductively beautiful and toned woman by their side. ... But are males more prone to 'toughness' and masculinity than women? ... In general, males are much more aggressive than females. ...

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In Susan Bordo's essay "Beauty (Re)discovers the Male Body," she discusses how men are characterized in advertisements as well as in society. ... In the young adult culture, society has changed the way they see male bodies and how men should perceive themselves. ... Calvin Klein discovered this to be true; he knew that rock-hard, athletic male bodies would sell to gay men, women, and even straight men. ... These ads are fairly traditional and usually expose the models body quite a lot. ... Seeing images of the ideal male or female can be very detrimental to our self-esteems. ...

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What advert of cosmetic products use most are the bodies of consumers to display the relation between user and product. The adverts of cosmetic brand use bodies to transfer symbolic meanings to the users of the brand. ... Unhappiness with body is not anymore confined to a feminine preoccupation because it exists among the male too. ... Nowadays, consumption has replaced production as the basis for social identity, according to Sturrock and Pioch, in their exploration of the current phenomenon of male grooming. ... As Bocock explains " Consumption associated with the body beautification and a...

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The metrosexual man seems to have become the 'other' of the supposedly normal, stoic, self-denying, modest, 'straight' male. ... Within this context, I will also look at the concept of the metrosexual in relation to fairly widely held images or conceptions of the 'gay' male. ... In 1965, Leslie Fiedler had mused in an essay - 'The New Mutants', about what looked to be the start of a "radical metamorphosis of the western male...all around us, young males are beginning to retrieve for themselves the cavalier role once piously and class-conscious...

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This is so as it helps to perpetuate the myth that women are fickle, fearful, should be subservient to their male counterparts, and not as intelligent as men. Women are hardly seen in roles that put them on the same playing field as their male counterparts; it is a very rare to find a woman who is portrayed as strong, independent and equal to her male partner. ... She never speaks unless she is asked some trivial question by her male co-worker. ... Wonder Woman and her female super hero friends all rely on their sexual appeal and are often pictured in scantily clad clothing that are strategic...

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Even a female who wrote to herself without intension to publish, was looked down upon by the society made up of male writers. It became necessary for a female writer to change her own ways of writing to be like a male's writing just for her to begin to be called equal with male writers. ... Valentine, / I see you strip the squeaking line, / your body weighed against the load, / and all my groans can do no good. ... Rich's statement is quite clear, saying that male writers set the standards for women. ... From a male perspective, the literature might be sugar coated and fairy tale...

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Overall, the position of women in a marriage was equal to the position of the male. ... It is unknown if the role of female priests was the same as male priests but the fact that there were female roles in the temple is certain. ... Statuettes and artwork of the Old Kingdom showed women that wore tight fitting clothes that cling to the body. ... Their role in married life was equal to the male role and they acted on their own behalf in economic transactions. ... The female figure was depicted as very slender thus accentuating the sexuality of the body. ...

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David Gilmore uses the term "male script" in his essay "Performative Excellence: Circum Mediterranean" to describe the male guidelines or in other words the job men are expected to fulfill in order to be respected by society. ... In her essay Rich states the following and gives an idea of how true this is, "We have expected to lie with our bodies: to bleach, redden, unkink or curl our hair, pluck eyebrows, shave armpits, wear padding in various places or lace ourselves, take little steps, glaze finger and toe nails, wear clothes that emphasize our helplessness" (Rich 420) The existenc...

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Women, as well as men, are so convinced that the female body is supposed to be flawless. ... This is reflected well in an insert from an article written by Margaret Atwood called The Female Body. ... This is obviously true, because society does not have the desire to see the male body. ... Generally one could assume that no female body is perfect. ... The male perversions could also be linked to the increase in surgical "enhancements" which I discussed earlier. ...

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Offred seems to need an influential male figure in her life; a figure of power whom she can rely on. ... A female is not totally dependant upon having a male role model in her life. ... It seems obvious that Offred is not content unless she has some male figure to depend upon. Another male in her life is her Commander. ... During the Ceremony, Offred quickly detaches herself from the situation, "What he is fucking if the lower part of my body Making love is not an accurate phrase, as this is not what we"re doing"(Pg-80) but she simultaneously describes the man as having a "not-pleasant fac...

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His brute force comes from his body structure, which consists of tone and massive muscles. ... The use of their body structure suggests that men who are stronger, makes them the more advance male which will allow them to win their competition. Being a man in todays society is about dominating the other male in order to be the better of the two competitors. ... Having power allows the male to be the leader which gives them dominance over everyone else. ... These action figures have several male attributes that subconsciously convince young adults, typically boys, to believe being a man is all ...

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This is true in many cases with women who accept the male notion that bodies are sex objects. ... This statement shows that she had to deal with male dominance starting at a young age. ... It seemed that all the men wanted was her body. ... In this story Yo, the oldest of the four girls, would not give into male dominance and peer pressure. ... She feels that she has to surrender or give these men her body to be accepted by them. ...

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From basketball courts and pools to weight rooms and almost an obnoxious amount of aerobic machines, it is not an overstatement to say McComas has it all but underneath the dazzle and shine McComas also shows the habits and preferences of the male and female students at Virginia Tech when it comes to working out at the gym. ... On the opposite side of the spectrum males also feel pressure when it comes the their appearance at the gym. ... This becomes another factor when considering the ratio at McComas' and is the cause of why some male students prefer War Memorial Hall rather than McCom...

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Cather's choice to use a male voice in narrating her story was perhaps because she was essentially writing about male orientated feelings and events. ... Shaw also draws light on Cather's stance with Antonia as "On the other hand, Antonia presents the conventional male traits in feminine disguise." Antonia therefore can be seen as an "occupant of male space." ... Cather challenges "those dualities such as active/passive, mind/body, presence/absence, which ultimately rely on gender dualism, male/female" in the characters of Jim and Antonia with the situations in wh...

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Since we live in a world that for a very long time up until recently, had only been observing of only two particular sexes; the male sex and female sex, there has forever been an ageless conflict and as one of my classmates so bluntly put it, "Men and women are eternal partners.... You are put into one of two categories, male or female and with there being nearly 7 billion people in the world and the projected population to only rise and reach 9.5 billion by the year 2050, I can kind of see where the gender line may have become skewed. ... According to an article by professor Darren Rosen...

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The Narrator's alternate personality is Tyler Durden, the ultimate alpha-male. ... He has never had a strong male role model. ... The fight club created in the film is the ultimate example of a male domain. Only guys are allowed and it is about releasing their most primal male urges. ... In them, it is just a swirl of their body parts. ...

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This one simple magazine made me realize just what a male dominated society we live in, where a woman can't even buy her own magazine without being pushed towards doing what men want first. ... The olive skin, trim body, angled facial features are all features men look for in women. ... People in media, like movie-stars or super models, have the "perfect body" by today's standards. ... Articles like this reinforce the idea of a male dominated society that makes women look a certain way or do certain things. ... From a male standpoint, women of media are in fact beautiful, but there c...

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Up until the last few decades a person's gender was defined by "the state of being male or female" (Webster). ... What this means is that the male or female character is created by a set of actions a person does to create the affect they present to the world. ... Merleau-Ponty claims that a body "is an historical idea" which "means that it gains its meaning through a concrete and historically mediated expression in the world.... " (Big Think) People who believe that how you born either as a male or female makes up your identity do not agree with a person de...

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Up until the last few decades, a person's gender was defined by "the state of being male or female" (Webster). ... What this means is that the male or female character is created by a set of actions a person does to create the affect they present to the world. ... Merleau-Ponty claims that a body "is an historical idea" which "means that it gains its meaning through a concrete and historically mediated expression in the world.... " (Big Think) People who believe that how you born either as a male or female makes up your identity do not agree with a person d...

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The media is presenting an image of our lifestyles that each male and female are supposed to live up to throughout their daily lives. ... More women are going back to work and making more of the family income, sometimes even more than the average male in the workforce. ... " A manny is a male who takes on the job as a full time nanny, who cooks, cleans, and babysits. ... Along with a Gatorade commercial having a male running and stopping for a drink of Gatorade. ... Gender roles are flip-flopping but the media wants to keep the commercials traditional meaning the female are the traditiona...

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Similarly, Robert Paulson, or Bob is just one of the male characters in the movie that represents femininity (www.literaryhistory.com/fight_club.htm). ... Similarly, another male character, known as Angelface, is also a member of Fight Club. ... The club is also strictly men only, we can see this by the fact that the basement is always packed with the members of the single male sex, and also when Jack mentions it to Marla, he clearly states to her that this new found release he has found to replace the old support groups is only for men, totally excluding women. This is an important point as i...

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In his essay, Ted Spiker explains how body image too is important to men. ... That means that the other 82 percent are unhappy with their bodies. How could this many men feel so insecure about their bodies? ... Although this may be true in some cases, men also feel a need to be better than their male peers. ... There's a difference between wanting to change the body in order to live a healthy lifestyle and changing the body through unhealthy approaches. ...

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