This week I was under the influence of a show called For The Love of Ray J. It is a typical reality dating show where girls are selected to win over the heart of singer Ray J. They are put through challenges to prove how much they want to be there. There is usually drama to thicken the plot and reel in more viewers.

The show depicts women as the trophy wives that all men are looking for. Ray J is out looking for "love" but the show has little of that on it. It's mostly women showing him how strong their sex appeal is compared to the rest of the girls in the house. From what I have seen so far, he has mostly kept the women who have the so called "slutty" characteristics which doesn't really make for a good long lasting relationship. The show portrays women as "a piece of meat" and that all they are good for is entertainment and show.

Well, here I am to write yet another blog about gender roles. This week was a little different then the past couple weeks in that I knew exactly what I wanted to write about. I've been watching this particular show called, "Tool Academy" on VH1 for the past couple of weeks, but for some odd reason it never struck "my fancy". After watching this past weeks episode I was very entrigued about what the show was all about. The girlfriends of all these so called "tools" brought their boyfriends there to try and clean up their act and make them more faithful, mature, and better men, in a nutshell.

I was able to see that the show was almost depicting men as meat heads and all about themselves. The show is able to convey from the men's perspective that they can get away with a lot more then women. To them what they are doing is okay and acceptable, however, if their girlfriends even though about doing half the things they have partaken in, they would be considered "sluts" or "whores". I think its an accurate depiction of most men everywhere because they believe the woman she be there awaiting them while they go out and have fun and party.

I hope this was intriguing and sparked some interest. I know some may not agree with this but its what I took from the show after I watched it.

Until next time,
Caitlin

Hello there again!

This week I haven't watched too much TV so it was hard to think about what I would write this blog on. However in the end I picked a Glade plug-in air freshner commercial. Although this does nto seem like it would depict anything within gender roles, you have to look deeper into the commercial. What I found may not have been intended, but i was able to precieve it as an alternative message.

In this particular commerical, there is an octopus mom, and her two children. Even though the commerical is talking about how this plug in can freshen the room ten times more than the leading plug ins it also shows that just the mother is home with the children. It can be thought that only the women really get the full benefit from this plug-in because they are stereotyped to be the ones who stay home and raise the children and clean the house.