Womans only workout: the walk between the bedroom and the kitchen

This is how the media depicts women. The media makes woman's image so different than it is in real life. In killing us softly 3 around 5:05 the woman describes an ad where there is a boy and a girl walking next to each other. She explains how the boy has already developed how to look tough and that he is already looking down at the girl, and the girl has learned her passive smile. Little ads like these say alot to young men growing up trying to figure out girls. I have seen many other ads in which the girls are in a degrading pose that makes men feel like they are better and more achieved then any girl. These ads are everywhere and it is because of the media that woman don't get the respect that they deserve and strive for. Also, some ads use woman as objects and it makes people, especially men, see woman as things instead of equal individuals. Even though these ads may be sexy, interesting, and risque, the truth is that they are making young men feel and think more negatively about woman than ever before. As we watched Killing us softly 4 in class today, i was laughing because i thought the ads were funny, which they were. As i thought about the ads throughout the day i began to notice that even though me and my male classmates thought they were funny, they were very degrading towards females. But this is what our society has come to to sell product to men, and even woman. I believe our society seriously needs help if it has to go to degrading femininity and masculinity to sell products to Americans'.   

Im Jacked, Dont have a sensitive side, and take huge risks- but am i a real man?

Well according to our society, that's what a real man is. As kids we grew up with G.I. Joe and superheros with big chests and biceps who we looked up to and wanted to be like. Well, the chests and biceps are getting bigger and so are the egos' of young men growing up in our society, with many negative consequences. These kids learn at an early age what it is to be a man starting by the way they are talked to as a baby and with action figures as they become older. With this way of speech and certain criteria of being a "man" they learn that there is only one right way of being a man. and because they learn that there is only one type of man, the kids that don't meet the criteria get made fun of and joked around with. This image of man comes mostly from the media and leaves a stain in the perspective of other men that are "different". In the movie we watched in class, that is exactly what it explained to us. The old fashioned superheros were smaller looking men in masks but as the criteria for a man grows, so does the size of their muscles. Rambo was the first hero that came along that showed kids what it was like to be a "real man":huge muscles holding huge guns and killing bad guys. and its been going downhill from their as hero's get bigger and guns get bigger. but is their a way to stop this? the damage has been done for the next couple of generations and it may not be able to turn back. The media is the only thing that can help our societies image about men however it may be unwilling due to the dislike of the smart action figure instead of the jacked one holding the two rocket launcher.