- Biology is destiny

- All women have built-in maternal instinct

- Women are nurturing, passive, and inherently domestic

- Overly emotional, hysterical

- illogical, not rational

- poor drivers

- bad at math and science

the systematic underrepresentation of a particuluar group or groups and/or media representations that favor stereotypes and omit realistic portrayals

Women are meant to be looked at

- Men act while women appear

- Marginalization

- Trivialization

- Polarization

- Undercounting

- Exaggeration of Internal Divisions

An ideology that insists that feminism's goals have been achieved--thus feminism is irrelevant, outdated, a spent force

Thus, sexist images are ok

cultural meanins to biological differences

--men and women are accultured into their gender roles--maculinity and femininity a set of social expectations

There are dominant masculinities and subordinate masculinities

--gender based hierarchies among men 

dominat image of men in action-adventure films and TV shows--a hyper-masculine ideal of toughness and dominance, men defined in relation to power, technology, and aggression

- emphasis on the the male body, the musculature and strenth, its ability to withstand torture and kill efficently

sensitive new age guy

- Ironic take of masculinity

- Maxim

- marketed through humor

- claims not to be sexist

- claims that women are smarter and better than men

people inhabit multiple personas, some in conflict

identify with contradiction itself

Feminine Mystique

by Betty Fridare

- Stereotypes of women in the 1950s/60s

- Biology is destiny

- All women have built in maternal instinct

- Women are nurturing, passive and inherently domestic

We are born with different skin colors, may have different facial formations, eye color or shape, hair--but these have become socially defined as markers of other kinds of difference--emotional, intellectual, psychological

- Media has been a source of perpetuating, repeating, and reinforcing racial stereotypes and also a place for challenging them

served to delimit the terms of black identity within popular culture

-Theatrical darky

- Childlinke

-Songs were vulgar, stories gross and broad

- Lazy, slow moving, hated works

- Insatiable in his bodily appetites

- Chinese workers built America's railroads in the the 19th century, rise of the "yellow peril"

- The notion that Asians indelibly alien; threaten economy, bring corruption

- Cast as threat of pollution, threat to nation

- Asian women as docile, subervient to men--but also as ruthless dragon ladies

- Asian Americans as "model minority"--model of successful assimilation

Lazy, corrupt, sadistic, dirty

- Unskilled, unsuccessful hordes stealing American jobs

- Yet also stereotype of Latin lover

- Latinas as either impoverished mothers of too many children or overly sensual Latin "Spitfires"