In my survey I asked five questions: their age, gender, religion, what they thought was most popular out of drinking, smoking, or sex, and whether they were involved in any, all, or none of the three activities. ... It was also surprising to see that most of the teenagers were wrong about what was the most popular activity among teenagers. I asked whether they thought drinking, smoking, or having sex was most popular with their peers. Nine people, five male, four female, thought that drinking was the most popular, yet according to the results they supplied on themselves, most of the males a...

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Sex appeal is one of the most effective forms of advertising in modern popular culture. ... An androcentric position can easily be seen through any number of popular magazine publications. ... She is nude; flowers cover only her most intimate parts in a thin layer. ... Anorexia and bulimia are the most common types of disorders, claiming the lives of 150,000 women each year. ... I wholeheartedly agree with Naomi Wolf, "Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history." ...

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For example, most Swiffer commercials have young middle-aged women pushing around a Swiffer mop dancing to a cheesy theme song. ... Most advertisements about young kids eating healthy and physical fitness is in high demand because Michelle Obama has made many health regulations in the school systems. ... Advertising involves all sorts of interconnected relationships, the relationships between objects and people, how we use certain symbols to show that relationship, the symbolism and the power it has, and most important communications and satisfactions (Monk-Turner, 2007). ... Food advertisemen...

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Thoughts and opinions are expressed, most often, from the viewpoint of a symbolic interactionist. ... The Media As a whole, television is one of the most influential types of media today. ... The ever-popular Kardashian show had brought to light the long-suffering Bruce Jenner, now Caitlynn, as the quiet ex-husband of Kris Kardashian; mogul and manager of her daughters and their media empires. ... According to one article in the Journal of Popular Culture, "Particular attention is paid to the rise of magazines such as 'Maxim' that feature chauvinistic male attitude" (Trag...

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While most modern religions tend to be a little of both, those that encourage natural gender roles tend to be more fundamental in belief while those that seek to control these natural tendencies tend to be more modern (or "western"). ... Typically, most contraception is banned altogether, giving absolutely no control to the woman over her own fertility. ... Since a woman's sexuality is considered to be one of the most immoral aspects to life to Muslims, many countries choose to almost completely wipe out the problem but just getting rid of female sexuality through surgery. To many, this ...

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Before such a movement happened, life for women was not at all like how most people know it today. ... The changes occurring throughout this entire time period were reflected in the popular music. ... Such events became inspiration to many artists at the time; one most notably was Bob Dylan. Dylan paved the way for popular songs to discuss political and social unrest. ... It mostly caused the influx of female rockers, still rising in numbers in popular culture. ...

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Its most important element was the "supreme male authority of the husband" (ebnda). ... Both the violent husband and the wife "were the objects of popular disapproval" (Wrightson, 1982, p.99). ... But the opinion and prejudges about women in this time were also made by popular religious and humanistic personalities. ... Most marriages were determined by the families, they decided which man their daughter had to marry. ... Most wives were enjoined to be obedient and to avoid contention, for example one "Sussex gentlewoman was counselled to "endeavour to please" her husband and to "dwell with hi...

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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. ... A show that has recently become popular is the comedy, Ally McBeal. ... Another popular television show is Roseanne. ... This gives the message that most people who are of lower income families are over-weight. ...

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Past feminism and popular thought was guided in a way that itself was oppressive and exhibited traits of dominance, in contradiction, new-age feminism and black feminism offer thought that is committed to equality, mutual respect, and justice. ... Most people these days were in favor of equal rights for homosexuals. ... Most of all, feminist therapy seeks to empower all types of women in today's world. ...

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The single young man with a high disposable income, living or working in the city (because that's where all the best shops are), is perhaps the most promising consumer market of the decade. ... Even though at the outset both these terms evoked very similar images in the world of popular perception, in reality they assume a host of completely different implications. ... There was a time when to take socially sanctified "woman's wear" and flaunt it on a male body was to send up and question society's most sternly guarded definitions of masculinity and femininity" (F...

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Most women in men's magazines are shown in a sexual appealing way. ... The article in a men's magazine, would write about it in a usual tone because they seem to dominate most popular sports. ...

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Advertising does more than just promote mere products in popular culture today. ... Most of the roles portrayed by women in advertisements tend to be a negative, and subservient image. This presents an itony since it is these negative images which have been most successful in selling products. ...

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Popular culture has a significant effect on the inequality of men and women by the ways men and women are portrayed, whether in movies, television, or in different magazines. With popular culture being such a broad subject, this focus will be on magazine ads and what exactly these ads are saying to the men and women who read them. ... This is interesting to consider that most people just flipping through the magazine would rarely take the time to think about what the ad is telling them. ... Most of the companies in the magazines wanted to send the message to the reader to "buy this product....

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Name: Andrew Verrijdt One of the most important political and social movements of the twentieth century has been the drive towards achieving complete equality for all people regardless of race, colour, class, gender identity, mental state or physical impairment. ... As stated above the most obvious example of sexist language is the use of the male pronoun to describe groups of people containing both males and females. ... In fact Wardaugh (1992) believes that the fact that terms like "widower" and "spinster" have died out while terms like "widow" remain popular is another example of this t...

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Venus and Mars, Adam and Eve, Birds and the Bees; what are the different between the two sexes? Both are from the same human race and both have the same basic human needs, but the word "human" can't describe the differences between the two. They are two different entities, each acting within their...

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Ironically, popular womens magazines also use beautiful women to promote cosmetics and beauty products (funny that both my examples sho w the exploitation of female images in society...more on that later). ... Sally Jesse Raphael recently had one of these androgynous hu man beings on her popular morning talk show. ... Specifically those shown on the popular music video network MTV. ... But, for those who only see them as they were produced, which is most of the viewing popu lation, the videos do indeed portray these woman in a fantasized nature. ...

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Ironically, popular womens magazines also use beautiful women to promote cosmetics and beauty products (funny that both my examples sho w the exploitation of female images in society...more on that later). ... Sally Jesse Raphael recently had one of these androgynous hu man beings on her popular morning talk show. ... Specifically those shown on the popular music video network MTV. ... But, for those who only see them as they were produced, which is most of the viewing popu lation, the videos do indeed portray these woman in a fantasized nature. ...

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For this particular reason I decided to analyze The Simpsons, one of America's most popular television shows. ... The Simpsons, one of televisions most popular shows, exhibits how gender roles are apparent everywhere and how television like many other forms of media shape our lives. ...

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For this particular reason I decided to analyze The Simpsons, one of America's most popular television shows. ... The Simpsons, one of televisions most popular shows, exhibits how gender roles are apparent everywhere and how television like many other forms of media shape our lives. ...

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The most visible element of hip-hop, the most commercially viable, is the art of rap, one enjoyed and performed by both men and women alike. ... James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, interprets this idea, "Hip-hop is now a big business with more attention paid to public image, product endorsements, and record deals that actual social change.... Although hip-hop is a male-dominated industry, women play an integral part in hip-hop's image, and as a consequence, pronouncing the sexism that has become so popular within the genre. ...

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Women in Sports Women today have the most opportunities ever when it comes to sports. ... I"m not saying women aren't good athletes, I"m just saying they aren't as popular. ... In a way this isn't fair, most males have larger muscles and are able to perform better then women. ...

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Once a year Sports Illustrated releases one of the most popular issues of their magazine, the swimsuit edition. ... I feel this way because even though the magazine does have a greater appeal to women most of the time, Sports Illustrated overall has a greater focus on men. ...

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(My Big Fat Greek Wedding) Call it old-fashioned, but is this not the way that most people were raised? ... Do most men feel the way that Theroux does? ... If sports are a cause of men not enjoying being men, then why are major league sports so popular now? ... Men dress the same for the most part, but that is because most men do not really care about looking different from everyone else. ... This author has an opinion that is not very popular among most men. ...

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Most students believe that segregation with single sex schools can cause an unbalanced relation between the two sexes by their differences. ... Opinions from the student body in mixed gender schools are more popular than single sex schools. ...

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Both figurines are popular due to their representation of women in their era, revealing their own connotation of gorgeousness and cultural perceptions. ... This also shows that there was interaction between the communities and they most likely shared same cultural influences such as art and trade. Several studies give different dates of the Venus de Willendorf era where most recent dating is cited for period between 24,000-22,000 BCE. ... Barbie's role as a teenage fashion model has had close association and use in popular youth pop culture (The Barbie Effect, n.d.).They are used exten...

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