1. We continued in our study of the dangerous affects for people who try too hard to follow the stereotypes of their gender.

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2. We watched a video called ‘Thin’ on the internet that discussed and documented the difficultuies of girls suffering from anorexia and bulemia. We read several short essays on the topic and answered some questions together.
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3. Next we discussed the dangers for men when they try to follow the stereotypes. While the violence of stereotypes for women comes in self-violence and unhealthy attitudes about body image, the danger and violence among men comes when they develop unhealthy attitudes towards women. We tried to view some excerpts from The Man Show, a show that caters and finds humor in taking these negative attitudes and sexist ideas to extremes.

1. We began the class with a look at the lyrics of songs. We looked through one Nickelback song and two Pink ones to analyze what perceptions were given of male and female genders. We also watched the Pink video that directly mocks and criticizes the influence of media on controling the mindset of young girls to follow unhealthy habits.
2. We watched a dove campaign commercial that shows how much extra work goes into the photo of a model that ends up on a billboard by a road. The students were surprised by the extra digital adjustments made for the final picture.
3. Next we watched a satire made to mock this process to alter photos. It took an attractive male model and transformed him instead into a slob because if people didn’t try to be more like magazine models then they would look ugly and ordinary and what an ‘ugly world that would be’.

   [youtube]ar6bhinHVh4[/youtube] This video is Pink’s own criticism of the media’s negative influence on young girls to follow an unhealthy ideal of what ‘female’ should be.

[youtube]iYhCn0jf46U[/youtube]  This video details the processing a photograph goes through to create an image. This is obviously an unrealistic image young girls are influenced to believe in.

 [youtube]FxczjasQIF8[/youtube]This commercial goes one step further and mocks the original Dove commercial. It’s focus isn’t that people should be made to become slobs, but instead argues that if people are not given an ideal to ‘aim’ for that we would have a society of people who don’t take any care to look and dress their best.