What are men and women? What factors and requirements that men and
women should have? Men and women are the identities that we think and want to be and
are subject to change by us.
For the body, we can find that nowadays people think that men and
women should be thin according to these two advertisings which are about keep
fit. People who are fat are not beautiful and should keep fit and be thin. Men
should like the ad of Louis Cheung, who has robust muscles such as arm muscle and abdominal
muscle and fit body. This type of men could be called ideal men and is manly.
Women should like Myolie Wu in the ad that to become slim and thinner and then has
a slim waist and clavicle. This type of women is feminine.
For the culture, women should stay at home and care the house and
men should go outside to work for earning money. Men are the controller in the
relationship of love. Since these traditional thinking affects us deeply,
although nowadays many women work outside, and girls chase boys actively, is
women should work and be restrained a contradiction question for us to think.
This is a promotional ad from GUESS
that founded in the America Edition of Marie Claire Magazine. We can find that
western and local have same thinking about the body of men and women. The men who
have robust muscles of the arm and fit body and the women have the slim waist and
clavicle are attractive and are the ideal body that people who would like to be.
However, western has liberal
thinking. Women and men are equal. Therefore, in addition to men, women also
can be the controller in the relationship of love and work outside and earn
money. (302 words)
Student Name: Uni Chong
Dear Uni, Nice. The discussion of cultural construction of gender is provided with the support of appropriate example. In the ethnographic interview, what you need to do is to "prove" that your arguments are valid with reference to a real case (i.e. interviewee). Keep it up!
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