Hogan
Hogan Knows Best is a part of vh1’s “Celebreality� block. The Hogan family is Hulk (Terry) and Linda with two children Brooke (16-18 years) and Nick (14-16 years). Terry is an overbearing masculine figure. Brooke is treated different then Nick, Nick is allowed to date and is encouraged by his father to hit on and pick up women. One episode Terry is jealous of his sons relationship with his girlfriend and sends a “Hotter� 18 years old girl over to ask his fourteen year old son out. His Daughter Brooke is not allowed to date until she is eighteen, according to Terry all guys are after one thing, sex which he is teaching his son to only think about. The show perpetuates gender inequality by Terry’s thinking he needs to shelter his daughter from boys because he feel she is unable to handle her self while his son is almost pushed into dating, like most fathers he is protecting himself from thoughts of his daughter being sexual and stifling her growth as a person. One episode Brooke is allowed to go on a date, her father places a GPS tracking system in their car to track her, and she is only allowed to go into public areas already planed out. In later episodes Brooke is attempting a pop music career, her father fights all the way against making her sexual. The over sexed media battling an overbearing dad, a corporate system, and a Father battle over the sexual identity of a 17 year old women, she is unable to decided her sexual representations. This creates an completely unrealistic sexual identity, a sweet, pure virgin that is extremely sexual. With pop singer in the late nineties (Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera) conveying the same message a virgin playing sexually promiscuous. No matter how sexually liberal or conservative Brook herself might be it is clear that her family and our culture have denied even the tamest of romantic experience, now promoted as sexual it is clear that she has no representation of her sexuality. Her sexual identity is being decided by the Men in her life.