10 - PDHPE - Media Portrayal of Sexuality: Blogs
Blogs
Read these bloggers personal opinions and decide what you think
Wicked Campers
- From little things, big things growProtest against 'Wicked Campers" for offessive and sexist slogans on their vans.
How do hip hop and rock music portray masculinity and femininity?
Are Women in the Media Only Portrayed As Sex Icons?
- Statistics Show a Massive Gender Imbalance Across IndustriesGender inequality : women and young girls are beginning to challenge limiting media labels.
What do Australian films say about Australian men?
- The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert – Concept Analysis (Masculinity)Australia’s popular culture has a famously hardened and conservative historical view of masculinity.
Watching Priscilla you see a statement not just against these traditional views and a play on the stereotypes of gay culture. The film in fact supports and embraces the best qualities of the traditional male Australian psyche; it’s humour, history and it’s identity.
Men’s sports still receive more than 90% of the coverage on television
- Inequality within Professional sportsDespite a sea of change in women’s athletics over the past three decades, men’s sports still receive more than 90% of the coverage on television; news and sports highlight shows.
Are women objectified in gaming?
- Masculinity and Maleness in Video GamesMale Disposability, Objectification of the Genders, and Why “Girl Gamers” Don’t Matter.
Beyonce believes women should choose to be happy over their image
- Beyonce promotes positive body image in 'pretty hurts' videoBeyonce is making a statement with her new video for “Pretty Hurts.” In the video, we see the body image issues that women go through, and even shows a girl trying diet pills and eating cotton balls to get skinny.
The Over-Sexualised Costume Designs of Action Heroines
- The Over-Sexualised Costume Designs of Action HeroinesThere is a certain stigma associated with action-oriented female characters and their sense of style.
How women are depicted in combat roles in film : implications for the US military?
- Putting the MAN in WoMAN: Female Combatants in Hollywood film since 1990 and ideas of Masculinity in U.S. CultureIn G.I. Jane we see the heroine fighting hand to hand against a male superior, only to see her go home, take off the uniform and settle into a romantic bath with her partner.
Response to the idea of female soldiers has also been met with criticism in society, highlighted with retired Army Chief of Staff General William Westmoreland famously stating, “No man with gumption wants a woman to fight his nation’s battles”. In closing, the future of masculinity remains uncertain. Recent pushes allowing women to serve in combat roles was granted by the U.S. Government in January of this year.
