Make up Blog for Week 6

This week i watched the movie "Role Models." The movie was about two men that work for a energy drink company. Danny (Paul Rudd) has a bad day at work one day and parks in a no parking zone. When Danny sees that his car is being toed, him and his partner Wheeler (Sean William Penn) jump in the car and try to drive off. They do not make it far and they are sentenced to either 30 days in jail or community service with a role model charity group.

There were a few parts that stuck out to me as being sexist. The part that stuck out the most to me was when Danny and Wheeler take their assigned "little's" to a camping trip. Wheeler is a bit of a ladies man and earlier in the movie he had attempted to convince a female role model to have sex with him. The women showed him her wedding ring and declined. On the camping trip though the woman, Connie (Carly Craig), takes Wheeler aside and tells him that she had only agreed to stay loyal to her husband within the state boundaries. Since the camping trip was out of state, she could have sex with Wheeler. This portrays women as horny, cheating tramps. This is unfair to women who stay faithful for their entire marriage and take it seriously. There are a lot of women who do not cheat on their husbands and most would never even think about it. It is sad that directors portray women this way because they think it is funny and will get them more viewers.

Overall this movie was pretty funny and i would recommend it. There are a few sexist parts, but for the most part the movie concentrates on showing Danny and Wheeler struggle through being role models.

I love you, man

Recently i saw the movie I Love You, Man. This movie shows that people think men should be dirty, rude, and drunks. The main character, Peter (Paul Rudd), is a sensitive man who has never really had any close male friends. Peter is more feminine than masculine. Because of this his wife, Zooey (Rashida Jones), encourages him to go at and make some male friends to become more masculine. When Peter meets Sydney (Jason Segel), they become close friends as Sydney teaches Peter everything that normal men do. Sydney teaches Peter that men go rock climbing, go out to bars to drink and talk about sex, masturbate regularly, and have one night stands. While its hard to argue most of these things, not all of it is true. There are plenty of men that do not drink excessively or participate in sports. Some men like to keep their personal sex life to themselves whether that may be talking about having sex with women or masturbating.

The character that is really over the top is Barry, the husband of one of Zooeys friends. Barry is forced to invite Peter over to play poker with him and his friends. Barry is a drunk ass who thinks that he is the king of the house. Barry is very competetive and is not very understanding of Peter. Barry and his friends use vulgar langauge often and burp and fart in each others presence. They challange each other to drinking games and take them seriously. This gives of the idea that men are stupid, rude and evil. There are plenty of men who are very conservative and would never do something like burp or fart in public. There are also many households where women make most of the decisions regarding the house.

SNL

This week I saw a Saturday Night Live skit about two sons playing a Wii game with their father that made them look like they were masturbating. The Men have to shake the Wii controller up and down to beat the game and when they do they hold it between their legs so it looks like they are pleasuring themselves. Then the mother comes down to see what they are doing and the father says that she would be a “natural,” at it. The entire skit is implying that men have dirty minds and are concerned with masturbating all the time. It shows that not only male children like to pleasure themselves but so do adult males. It makes it seem like it’s something that all guys do all the time and that they are just concerned with sex. It’s not a game about how a woman pleasures herself it’s a game about how a guy pleasures himself so it is a definite shot at males. The skit kind of demoralizes women right at the end when it shows the mother playing the game. The father tells his boys that she should be a pro at it implying that she does it all the time (pleasures him). Now that I think about the skit it is pretty disgusting but when I first saw it I thought it was pretty funny.

Cheetos Commercial

This week i watched a Cheetos commercial. In the commercial there was a young lady sitting at a table outside of a restaurant and at another table is an older woman. The younger woman is dressed all in pink and she has a few shopping bags around her. The older woman is reading a book and eating her Cheetos. Both of the woman are alone. The younger woman is on a phone call with someone gossiping about how she is on the ugly side of town and then goes on to talk about her night at a club. The older woman hears the younger woman talking about how she is on the ugly side of town and throws Cheetos under her table and birds attack the younger woman. I think this commercial is showing that all young women like to shop and wear pink. It shows that young women love to gossip and that they are all stuck up and think that they are pretty. The commercial also shows older women as a mature version of women. She is dressed more conservatively and kept to herself while she read her book. Overall i think that this commercial shows the different stages of maturity in a woman's life and it showed it in a funny and entertaining way.

Godaddy.com Commercial

During the Super Bowl i saw a commercial for godaddy.com that stuck out to me. The commercial was promoting the website by showing beautiful women in a court hearing about using "enhancement." The commercial was referring to enhancing websites using the services that godaddy.com offers but it was intended to sound like they were talking about breast enhancement. All of the women had large breasts and they were wearing tight shirts to show them off. They were also all smiling throughout the entire commercial despite being in court, a place that generally does not make someone happy. This commercial was implying that the idea of a pretty woman includes large breasts and smiles with perfect teeth. I think that it was also implying that woman may not be as intelligent as men because they were being tried by a number of male judges. There was not one female judge in the court and all of the girls lawyers were men. I think that this commercial is degrading to women and even though it very effective in promoting the company it is wrong. Not all women have to have large breasts or dress in tight clothes to be beautiful. They are definately smart enough to become lawyers and judges, just look at Judge Judy.

Money

This week i watched the episode "money," of NBC's "The Office." In this episode Michael Scott's girlfriend wants to get new carpet, furniture and tiles for their condo. Michael gets low on money and is forced to go out and get a second job as a telemarketer. Michael does this because he does not want to tell his girlfriend, Jan, that he is having problems and he feels like he has to take care of financial problems himself. This shows that the male is expected to make the money in a relationship while the woman stays home and takes care of the house. Jan does not have a job and does not contribute financially at all. By the end of this episode Michael cuts up all of his credit cards and is forced to tell Jan about his problems. Michael then tries to hop a train out of town. As he is sitting on the train waiting for it to leave Jan comes and finds him and talks him out of it. This shows that the woman is the voice of reason in a relationship. The woman is there to make rational decisions. In the end Michael decides to get off of the train and him and Jan promise to resolve their money issues together.

Anchorman

The movie “Anchorman,” shows a lot of sexism. Ron Burgundy, the main character, is an anchorman for a news station in San Diego. When the station brings its first woman, Veronica Corningstone, to the news team she is not accepted. The original news team (consisting of Ron, Brick, Brian and Champ) immediately try to get their boss, Ed Harken, to reconsider hiring Veronica. Veronica is given terrible stories to cover when she first starts because she is a woman. One of the stories she covers is a cat clothing show. Veronica is clearly qualified to cover better stories but because she is a woman the news station keeps her at the bottom of the ranks.
Ron falls in love with Veronica and they start a relationship. This does not last long though because Ron has an incident one day and can’t make it to work on time so Veronica had to fill in. When Ron found out that someone else told “his” news he freaks out and breaks up with Veronica. This is when Veronica is given her big break and is promoted to co-anchor with Ron. Of course Ron does not like this and he and Veronica viciously argue when they are off the air.
Things progressively get worse and Veronica tricks Ron into cursing on the air. Ron is fired and Veronica becomes the sol anchorman. Ron’s life spirals downwards and he becomes an angry drunk. He spends his time in the bar watching Veronica’s career sky rocket. Soon the original news team is forced to ignore Ron and that’s when his life hits rock bottom.
Things turn around for Ron when Veronica is nowhere to be found when a panda at the local zoo is giving birth. The news station calls wrong and asks him to come back to report the panda story. Ron eagerly accepts and finds himself back at the top and doing what he loves most. When he gets to the zoo he finds veronica in the bear habitat and is torn on whether to save Veronica or report the news. Ron chooses to save Veronica and he finally accepts her as an equal. Ron and Veronica then go on to be co-anchors of a global news station.
The point that I am trying to get across is that Veronica joined the team and was no one because of her gender. She was given terrible stories to cover and everyone was very disrespectful towards her. When the news station realized that Veronica was a very talented reporter she was finally given the position she deserved and gave other woman working on the set hope. This movie is somewhat accurate when portraying how woman are viewed at work. There are many cases when they are not taken seriously and they are given jobs that are well below their work skills. This is because men see woman as inferior and think that they are not capable of having the same or better working skills as them. This is clearly shown in the movie and in the end these views are proven wrong.