Since its origins, television has always provided stories for audiences to both enjoy and learn from. From news broadcasts to the Discovery Channel, television attempts to display the real world’s stories as much as fictional ones, sometimes narrating real experiences through imaginary characters and storylines. However, this commonly means that these stories are depicted through antagonizing or ignorant means, mainly for the specific stories certain demographics want to watch to increase revenue. Conversely, this meant placing female characters in conventional roles for women such as caretakers or dedicated housewives would not change until society allowed women to explore different hobbies and careers. Television may showcase societal issues, …show more content…
When an episode of the famed television series explored Lucy sharing her passions of getting a job in entertainment like her husband, it provided viewers with the inevitable conclusion of Ricky and his tough nature softening for Lucy’s charisma. However, audiences today view Ricky’s behaviour as not just dismissive, but abusive. When Lucy initially mentions her desires of performing with Ricky on stage, he immediately rejects the idea by reasoning that she is too overweight, and her only talents are being a wife and mother (Kaaronen, 2024, p.17). Comparably, Mad Men, a show set during I Love Lucy’s time, provided audiences with a decade worth of episodes. Contrarily, this decade saw society birth a fourth wave of feminism, which interfered with the stories Mad Men was producing weekly. The main praise for the show is its dedication and accurate representation of the title era’s cut-throat advertising business, as well as unfortunately, the extreme subordination of women. In fact, similarly to the real lives of women living in the Mad Men era, the series’ female characters had little to no storylines of their own, as they commonly served as the male character’s …show more content…
The franchise’s New York spinoff featured Betheny Frankel, a fan favourite who capitalized on her fame to release a line of cocktails she named Skinnygirl. This proved to be only the beginning of her career as an entrepreneur, as the third highest retailing whiskey company in the United States, Jim Beam bought her company. While this proves that women and housewives can achieve success outside of the private sphere, Frankel has since become the target of critiques that claim herself and her brand as underserving of such accomplishments because it was built off of the owner’s own reputation (Nayar, 2015, p.10). However, Nayar (2015, p.5) insists that such negative responses are rooted from the stereotype reality television has received since the peak of its popularity in the two-thousands, stating that it has accentuated issues normally associated with women and placed them into a commercial viewpoint. Ferrucci et al. (2014) affirm, dominant female voices and stories are not prominent in media because audiences prefer female characters to be passive, overemotional, and reliant on men to fulfill all their needs. Frankel’s popularity, originating from a popular reality program centered on traditional and archetypal traits and roles for a woman to possess, aids the argument that Skinnygirl should not be considered earnest, as factors of
I Love Lucy: How does Lucy tend to needlessly complicate situations? Are the effects of this habit always negative? In season 1, episode 35, Lucy complicated things by putting pressure on Ricky to ask his boss for a raise. As Lucy started to complaint about needing more money to buy things that she wants. So a dinner was planned with Ricky’s boss and after the dinner Lucy pressure Ricky in asking for a raise. Ricky went along with Lucy’s planned which did not work, instead Ricky ended up losing
An Analysis of Dramatic Conflict in a “Zoo Story” by Edward Albee, Stand Clear of the Closing Doors, and Sonnets for an Old Century by Jose Rivera In Edward Albee’s “Zoo Story”, the conflict between character vs. character is generated through the differing class backgrounds of Peter and Jerry. Peter is a well-to-do family man that appears to have very few worries in life. In opposition this class background, Jerry is a confused and lost individual that seeks a deeper relationship with other people
Ricky Williams and Social Anxiety Disorder Introduction As regular people of society, we tend to put celebrities up on a pedestal and view them as a higher being. We often think that they have perfect lives, having everything they could ever need even though, this is not the case. There are many situations, problems and other situations that occur behind the scenes that we do not know about that these celebrities face every day. Some of our heroes who we think are perfect may actually suffer
An example of this can be seen when Tre, Ricky, and Doughboy are at a street hang out with friends and other gang affiliated individuals when one person from a rival gang vindictively walks into Ricky. As a result to what has transpired Doughboy, Ricky’s brother, responds with proactive aggression; threatening the opposing gang member by flashing a gun at him and indicating harmful violent behavior resultant to the action he displayed (Singleton, 1991). Essentially due to the previous encounter between
We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can. –- Will Rogers Television’s rise in popularity throughout the fifties saw the emergence of the situation comedy, a style that captivated audiences by presenting a story with a beginning, a middle, and a happy end. One of the most popular of these shows, I Love Lucy, continues to appeal to both young and old some forty years later -- and counting. For most people, the answer to how I Love Lucy continually and effectively draws viewers
These societal roles have been changing for decades now. Traditionally, the men would have to go to their prestigious jobs outside of the home, serving as the sole breadwinner for their family. Women, on the other hand, were left at home to take care of the kids, do the household chores, and have supper ready by the time their husbands got home from work. On the off chance that a woman did work during this time, it was as a secretary, a nurse,
victims of this sham. Jane Burnham is Lester and Carolyn's daughter. She is caught between the two of them, and her decision is to tune her parents out. Ricky Fitts, the boy next door, makes his choice of knowing when to cooperate with his father. Ricky's dad, Colonel Fitts, makes his choice of finally admitting of his sexual preference. Angela Hayes, Jane's friend, makes her choice of losing her virginity to Lester. Each character has to learn how to deal with his or her own problems. Lester Burnham
a year or less. The movie is centered on the Burnham family. The main character of the movie is Lester Burnham, played by Kevin Spacey. Lester lives with his wife who is a realtor and their 16 year old daughter. Lester feels that the two important women in his life think he is a loser. The
Ambiguous Women: The Power of the Female Narrative I do not wonder that men have always felt threatened by strong women. Male insecurity is manifest in the patriarchal infrastructure of society and its enforcement of gender roles that require female submission to the male model. In her book, Writing a Woman's Life, Caroline Heilbrun quotes Deborah Cameron's sardonic statement, "men can be men only if women are unambiguously women" (16). Heilbrun considers the ambiguous women, those who challenge