GWSS 3306: Popular Culture Women

The Positive and Negative Images of women:

I'll start with the positive. Since several of us in the class like the Simpsons, and because Lisa is my favorite characters on television, I decided to prove my point that Lisa is a wise and wonderful women even if she is just eight years old. "Relax? I can't relax! Nor can I yield, relent, or . . . only two synonyms? Oh my God, I'm losing my perspicacity!"
I had to look it up in the dictionary: Perspicacity--"Keen vision". The web site I found the quote on is
Another strong female character I like is, Margaret Cho. She is a comedian, writer and had a stint on television. It is said of her that she is, " . . . one of the most controversial, political and liberal feminest comedians of our time" She says about her work is this, "It's a way to experience and almost metabolize power and have it take the form of glamour and fashion." *I'm sorry I will find and post the web site from where I got this.

To find negative images, as many of us have already stated is easy. I took the route of including some ideas rather then images of what others had to say about the negative effects that media has on women. From, They listed five main catagories that advertisers fall into to perpetuate and reinforce the image of women as less then men.
1/ Superiority -- Men are larger and more powerful.
2/ Dismemberment -- Representing the body as parts disconnected from feelings or intellect.
3/ Clowning -- That women are silly and child like.
4/ Canting -- Posture of women depict submission and insecurity.
5/ Dominance / Violence -- The implication being that women need to be keep under control.

~Ardis