gender representation

Gender:

Sex: sex is what you are physically, you are ether male or female however there are some circumstance where the lines between male and female are blurred.

Gender: gender is the way you or a character is perceived by society or culture, it is the way that we feel we have to behave to fit in for example if you are female you are expected to be feminine and weak while if your male you have to be masculine and dominate (stereotypes) however if your male for example you could do something that would be seen as feminine by sociaty and the other way around.

The nature / culture question

Is it nature or is it nurture, nature is physical attributes determined by the way we have evolved, on the other hand nurture is the way we have been taught and understand the world around us.

Masochism:

Though out history man has written history to keep himself above woman and some of the ways he has done this is through religion and art, in modern times being a man is seen allot differently from how it was seen 40 years ago.

Feminism:

Feminism is the other end of the scale the way culture sees ether sex is determined who has power. Feminism questions the way people believe the leading gender.

Gender sex and sexuality:

in this session we learned about laura mulvey and her theories on gender representation within films, i feel that her theories are outdated by modern standards however this could be because this paper was written over 30 years ago so the types of film were dominated by a more male aimed genre.

one thing i found interesting about this lesson was the debates between the two extremes and how different peoples views and culture effect there common sense as common sense its self is just things we have heard over and over again. one of the arguments was that human nature puts males as the more dominate however i feel that both male,female and masculine,feminine should stop trying to snatch power from one another and find a balance.