Cars and accessibility to freeways are a symbol of how racial groups are depicted within their social economic statuses, more specifically in Los Angeles. In the video “Fresh Out the Boat,” it depicted a view of how Asian Americans are shown to be very stereotypically used. Within the episode the y showed how the family owned a broken van which is a common stereotype in today’s society and also when the couple was in the car dealership they spoke in Chinese arguing. This can be compared to Karen Tei Yamashita reading selections from the novel “Tropic of Orange,” because oppose to it just being about Asian Americans its main focus is about the different perspectives of lower class and/or minorities. In the reading it spoke of an Asian surgeon …show more content…
“One of the greatest divergences between media and empirical depictions of the sex industry is in the descriptions of work activities and workers’ feelings about what they do for a living,” this phrase from the article “Fallen Women and Rescued Girls: Social Stigma and Media Narratives of the Sex Industry in Victoria, B.C., from 1980 to 2005*” indicates a sense of how women are meant to act a certain way but then again they use cars to escape these meanings. Alongside with that, taking a short part of the movie Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift, in some or most of the scenes, Asian women were portrayed as sexual objects and/or prizes. Women in today’s society aren’t being well treated and also how men are treated differently from what women are being treated, very unfairly. Comparatively, this also shows that of a dominant ideology in which that mostly people of higher class people are able to access the freeway, reflecting back to “Tropic of Orange.” Though some middle class are able to access it, it’s mainly those of higher class. Minorities are mostly placed in the middle or lower classes or none because most of the minorities are either illegal immigrants or aren’t fully stable with their financial economic
...s a combination show the unfathomable broadness of this cultural value as well as portraying the submissiveness of women as something that they are destined to become. This value in particular may also associate with racial and class stereotypes and operates in the same manner.
In The Folklore of the Freeway: Space, Culture, and Identity in Postwar Los Angeles, Eric Avila discusses the history of the construction of the freeway in Los Angeles and the effects that this transformation had on communities of color. The construction of the freeway further increased the contrast between white space and non whitespace as white people moved toward the suburbs and communities of color were displaced to the inner city metropolitan areas. Avila explains that the impact of the freeways was not only economic, but also physical. The construction entailed immense destruction and displacement among inner-city communities. Boyle Heights, for example, experienced one-tenth of its population being displaced by the freeways. What I found
In this article, Dowsett uses the analogy of a bike argue his connotation when a white person is bombard by the term white privilege. Lastly, the author is trying to reach out to white people that the next time someone try to use the term “white privilege” remember they aren’t calling you a racist, they just want you to try empathize with how scary it is to be on a bike sometimes. One point I notice that the author is debating is about how the system allows discrimination to happen in analogy to how driver has more “privileges” over the biker. An example is how the rode is made for both cars and bikes, but when a car comes zooming by not realizing how frightening it may put a cyclist in danger they only see the road from the privileged perspective of a car. In another instance the author uses is the snowy weather. The fact that when it snows the snow in the street are being push over to the bike lane not realizing that cyclist exist. Another topic that caught my attention while reading the article is how Dowsett paints a picture of a nice
Mustang is a car used predominantly by the working class. Its owner is a woman and she portrays the economic aspects of prostitution rather than its sexualized elements. The pink color of Mustang is indicative of its feminized representation. Therefore, the pink Mustang represents the socio-economic status of woman and serves to cheapen and feminize it. The l...
Considering that traditional society looked down on women as inferior to men, the female roles in each work challenge the status quo and make their audiences’ eyes wearier to the society they might have previously backed without question.
The article focuses on the experiences of two women who work as escorts within the sex industry, throughout this interview the women disclose the pros and cons of their jobs, why they chose to work as escorts, how their job has affected their family and friends around them, how they consider and approach their careers from a business point of view and how the women believe society and the media have inspired people to create a negative stigma of the sex industry as if it was a folk devil. Nagle (1997, p.250) states that “our culture uses sexual shame and ignorance for purposes of social control”. (Nagle, J. (1997), Whores and Other Feminists, London and New York: Routledge)
In the past American society and culture has set social norms for women to keep acting and doing things that a proper lady should do. However, women rebelled and changed the rules of what was expected from the past towards their own set of guidelines, because women didn’t want to follow the old rules of American culture anymore. Once women where liberated from some of the rules the “double standard” continues to follow women around especially when it comes to sexual actions. On the subject of this Sex in the City is a show all about sex the 4 main characters dialogues in the show. For illustration, Kim Catrall’s character in the show demonstrates she has quite an appetite for sex and men. The characters stigma affected her profession because the companies she wanted to work with knew of her reputation, as a result, she would lose clients due to being slut shamed. In this case there was the injustice of the double standard and affecting her livelihood because she is a woman. But when a man has this type of behavior whether he’s a prowl to sex in a social environment or at work, he doesn’t have pay the consequences of his sexual actions. For example, Donald Trump was exposed for his behaviors he did in the past, but it only affected him now because he is running for president but was
Sophocles wrote the classic tragedy Antigone in 496-406 BC this play dramatizes the conflict between self-morality versus human law by representing each conflict by two characters; Antigone and Creon. In this play Antigone decides to bury her brother Polyneices regardless of the king Creon’s decree. After Antigone is caught Creon decides that the punishment of death will be enforced. This sets of a chain reaction of conflicts between Antigone and Creon, both filled with pride and will. The chorus states that the gods vigorously punish the proud, yet punishment brings wisdom. ( )
Everyone has expectations to uphold and often it can feel overwhelming to comply with them all. When one chooses not to comply to the expectations set by oneself or from others, it can be seen as an act of rebellion, foolish-thinking, or a failure to see what the future holds. Similarly, expectations that are too elevated towards others can result in a harsh confrontation with reality. In the novel, The Other Side of the Bridge, by Mary Lawson, the author develops the idea that one bearing too many expectations of others and of oneself can lead to developing distress and feelings of betrayal if the expectations are not met. The theme of expectations is developed using the character Ian, through the social expectations he encounters, familial
...is morally degrading and perpetuates the idea that women are mere sexual objects,” (BBC News.) This shows the awful things they go through in order to get what they truly
Mainstream movies are about men’s lives, and the few movies about women’s lives, at their core, still also revolve around men (Newsom, 2011). These female leads often have male love interests, looking to get married or get pregnant. Strong independent female leads are still exist for the male view, as they are hypersexualized, or the “fighting fuck toy,” (Newsom, 2011). This depiction has created a culture where women are insecure and waiting for a knight on a horse to come rescue and provide for her as well as the acceptance of women
desirable object to own, by using the female as a symbol of the car. By appealing to the sexual
In Canada, sex work has routinely been pathologized and criminalized. The stigma surrounding sex work is tenfold for sex workers who are racialized. Using the lecture discussions from weeks 8 and 11, as well as additional journals, scholarly and peer reviewed articles, this paper aims to illustrate the struggle involved with partaking in sex work as a racialized individual. The first section of this paper explores the danger involved in prostitution while being racialized, analyzing how the risk increases exponentially for racialized groups. The second section will focus primarily on the imprisonment of racialized sex workers, explaining the frequency of arrest in comparison to Caucasian, middle class sex workers. Finally, the last section
A commodity is defined as a product or service that is in demand, in relation to a product that the public wants, is mass-produced and subsequently purchased. This definition does not raise an eyebrow until we further analyze that the definition broadly includes women, this being a result of the pervasiveness of popular cultures portrayal of sexually explicit women, especially in mainstream films. One may question not only the definition, but the fundamental role this commodification of women plays in reiterating gender stereotypes and inequality. These exploitive sexual hedonistic behaviours are evident in the 2013 Martin Scorsese film, The Wolf of Wall Street, stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort, a New York stockbroker who runs a firm that continuously participate in money laundering, security fraud
Since prostitution has been around there have been labels and stigmas behind the workers, their morals and the job itself. Leaving these men and women to be rejected rights, health care, insurance, etc. Weitzer observes, “[i]nstead of viewing themselves as ‘prostituted,’ they may embrace more neutral work identities, such as ‘working women’ or ‘sex workers’ […] These workers are invisible in the discourse of the anti-prostitution crusade precisely because their accounts clash with abolitionist goals.” Weitzer is hinting at the fact that these women and men see themselves as workers too, deserving of workers rights and protection, just as you and I would expect. But they are declined help and benefits because of the stigma following their line of work, based on societal values.