Stereo types
MEN: Dominant, strong, intellegent, strong willed, muscular, hansome.
WOMEN: Passive, beautiful, quiet (wall flowers), domestic, weak, curvaceous.
Notice anything?
A common occurrence?
Inequality of the sexes!
Throughout history men and women have been protrayed in this old fashioned and dated way, and still today to a ceirtain extent. Women are massivly sexulised and protrayed as objects, appealing to the male gaze (Laura Mulvey in 1975). Where as men are seen in society as the ones largely in control and dominant in a patriarchal society.
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