Diversity and Gender Stereotypes in Social Media

Wenyi Zhou

12/21/14

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Topic:Diversity and Gender Stereotypes in Social Media

Thesis: How does gender stereotypes developing in Social Media ? Why diversity is important for social Media?                                                       

          After I taken Media class , I started to thinking and research for some questions about diversity and gender stereotypes in Social Media. Undoubtedly, the gender stereotypes in social media changed a lot in those years, man will not just be “hero” anymore and women will not just weakness “princess” anymore. Diversity already become a big part of media,people 

mix the various regions of the world, all nationalities, all classes and different political and cultural differences in social media, to achieve of globalization and attract different people from different countries.

           The traditional concept of gender role is a man should have the ambition, ambition and independence,behavior of rough bold, dare to compete, namely with "masculinity"; women should be compassionate and sensitivity, good housekeeping and child rearing,on gentle and considerate, gentle in manner and quiet, namely with "female temperament". 

           Men seem to always be in the movie leadership, more capable and culture, and women are always in a position to be protected, no male wisdom and calm, a lot of movie hero to the rescue of the screen. Think about it, no matter how strong the girls, the men's final are needed relief. In the movie, the most attractive than the beautiful people of it, we are seduced by the beauty, whether or sportsman beauties, have become movie buy the most important part. But most of the film and television work, women will always be "vase class" figure, a closer look at think about it, what the movie looks more women are ugly, while the men in the trade request is not very high. Most men grasp of social wealth, beautiful or not does not matter, while women are more concerned about the appearance. For example，"Like a man can not spit chewing tobacco can not be the same with men," remember this speech right？It is very familiar with the classic film "Titanic", Rose told Jack to go to school in the deck spitting, discovered by her mother. This also affects virtually our ideas, women should ensure that there are rules, but to no avail bohemian describe women. In the invisible effects movie, we find it difficult to accept the feminization of men. Under normal circumstances, the community is hate girly men, because men are usually set by society should be masculine. Worth thinking about is that in film and television works, to create image of women, in order to meet the needs of the community deliberate or unconscious behavior? 

            Film and fashion as a social and cultural benchmark, the inevitable with age mark. From 1937 first princess movie "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" come to the 2013 "Frozen" Hot, twelve princess movies, spanning nearly 80-year era of change, although there is no continuous story of these films on , but there is still a visible clue gleaming: to enhance the development and status of women feminism.

            There is no feminist consciousness without brain princess: snow, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty.Snow apparently still weak nor a brain, she did not show any resistance or independent spirit in the film, in addition to singing and dancing, and small animal friends - after these three characteristics have become the standard for all Disney Princess - is in the forest chased by hunters, casually eating the Queen's poison apple, lying in a coffin waiting to be Prince Wen Xing. Snow beginning to end in a completely passive state, and even her hit song "Someday my prince will come" full of blind optimism and passively wait mentality. Of course, the presence of snow also conform to the historical needs, in 1937 the United States, the Great Depression of the remaining prestige has not faded. Fear of the American people really need such a fairy tale rekindle the faith and courage of their lives, also proved, Snow White born at the right.

Post-feminist era of princesses (The Little Mermaid began, Mulan so far), and finally learned to make men do dream, they dream of becoming like men, even men do do, ride the battlefield, make contributions (at least Mulan is such) . However, a more in-depth feminism, women do not want to become like men (can not deny the differences between men and women physical and mental), but not to a woman and a man showdown, but to put aside examine male to female , the definition of the identity of women by women themselves, thinking their own strengths and weaknesses. Women's dreams should be to please "their" instead of pleasing the patriarchal society. So confident feminists should ask yourself: what "I" want? Among the Disney Princess from 2009 played "The Princess and the Frog" began, including "Tangled" in Rapunzel, "Brave" in Merida, until 2013 "Frozen" in Elsa and Anna, all with this kind of self-consciousness, so I referred to them as "a new era of feminist princess."

               From a "Brave" to this part "Frozen", the theme of the film has been transferred to the relationship between women and women up. "Brave" is about her daughter, "Frozen" began to talk sisters. Tablets male role image has become increasingly worse. Princess movies, has increasingly become a "female movie." "Brave" in even a decent prince did not, "Frozen" is the completion of the unprecedented initiative: Prince finally bad, the entire film, became the biggest villain. Has experienced eight years of changing times, the men finally from the "savior", reduced to a "behind"! Women finally realized a long time to suppress the liberation of women.

My another thesis is diversity in social media, especially in American film. American film tries to transcend the various regions of the world, the movie version of all nationalities, all classes and different political and cultural differences, to achieve its aim of globalization. Such as Spielberg's "Schindler's List" is a typical German awakening of conscience, and not hesitate to risk their lives to rescue Jews rebel Nazis and the true story of the creation of the master copy of the film, the film is clearly a humanitarian spirit is important ideological background. In order to achieve the film transcendence, the Americans also took heterozygous multicultural approach to film-making, in an attempt to meet the different countries and regions, different ethnic and cultural traditions people's aesthetic needs. America itself is a nation of immigrants, and the arrival of multi-ethnic blend makes this country from the beginning of the founding of a strong foreign culture of inclusiveness, it is also based on this point, it was decided the American movies cultural diversity.When Halle Berry became the first African-American actress to win an Academy award for Best Actress in 2002，she was said “This moment is for Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, Diahann Carroll. It’s for the women that stand beside me - Jada Pinkett, Angela Bassett, and it’s for every nameless, faceless woman of color that now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened.”

           With the second half of the 20th century, accelerated the pace of global international, multicultural elements polymeric quickly evolved into major Hollywood movie production, so that the American film production is not only able to provide entertainment for their audiences the text, but also to different countries around the world and the nation's people to see their familiar cultural factors, and thus to love this film culture. 

In order to realize the diversity of film culture, Hollywood has long been an open attitude gathered a large number of the world's film professionals, such as Ingrid Bergman from Sweden, the United Kingdom of Vivien Leigh, Australia, Mel Gibson, and China's Jackie Chan, Jet Li, John Woo, and other famous artists. These different nationalities, different historical and cultural background to bring together artists of Hollywood, has laid a solid foundation for the diversified development of American movies. In addition to American movies depict and reflect the reality of the country outside, but also tried to depict the world to different countries and ethnic realities of life and stories of other nations of the world to attract viewers. Such as the American film about the Chinese film history and reality of "The Last Emperor" and "Mulan" and is a typical example, in the animated film "Mulan", the Disney approach with its unique perspective and interpretation of this well-known Chinese woman Men play, for the father of the army's story. American film also introduced other ethnic and national literary classics in some of the stories and characters, such as "Sense and Sensibility", "War and Peace", "Anna Karenina" and other films, this approach whereabouts overseas promotion of American culture has really made a cultural output and commercial profits double harvest.

           It can be said that the American film firmly grasp the nature of film and popular culture, and rely on their entertainment, spectacle and meaning beyond its characteristics such as the formation of a strong position in the movie business on the world market, the use of this strategy, not only forming a virtuous circle of American movies, but also greatly contributed to the development of film art.

Diversity In Music

Diversity In Music

         After World War II, the United States and many European and American, Oceania countries, has become a melting pot of nationalities. Monocultural concept slowly evolved into the concept of community culture. These countries constituted by a variety of ethnic groups, first proposed the idea of multiculturalism. With immigration musical confluence of cultures and to promote the rapid rise of multiculturalism and prosperity in the United States and the world.

         From 1916 to 1924, there has been extensive Britain, France and Germany folk songs. R. Foresman (Robert Foresman) "Books of Songs series" is the first presentation, the entire series of more than 200 folk songs of the performance of all of Western Europe more than 20 Nordic and Central European culture.

       In 1918, the school began to appear in the music teaching content African American spiritual songs, music school textbooks as "Books of Songs series" Foresman's (1925) and "A Child's Book Of Songs" (1928) and included a large number of African-American folk songs, especially spiritual songs.

Diversity In Film ( Part III )

Diversity In Film ( Part III )

         In addition to American movies depict and reflect the reality of the country outside, but also tried to depict the world to different countries and ethnic realities of life and stories of other nations of the world to attract viewers. Such as the American film about the Chinese film history and reality of "The Last Emperor" and "Mulan" and is a typical example, in the animated film "Mulan", the Disney approach with its unique perspective and interpretation of this well-known Chinese woman Men play, for the father of the army's story. American film also introduced other ethnic and national literary classics in some of the stories and characters, such as "Sense and Sensibility", "War and Peace", "Anna Karenina" and other films, this approach whereabouts overseas promotion of American culture has really made a cultural output and commercial profits double harvest.

          It can be said that the American film firmly grasp the nature of film and popular culture, and rely on their entertainment, spectacle and meaning beyond its characteristics such as the formation of a strong position in the movie business on the world market, the use of this strategy, not only forming a virtuous circle of American movies, but also greatly contributed to the development of film art.

Diversity In Film ( Part II )

Diversity In Film ( Part II )

         With the second half of the 20th century, accelerated the pace of global international, multicultural elements polymeric quickly evolved into major Hollywood movie production, so that the American film production is not only able to provide entertainment for their audiences the text, but also to different countries around the world and the nation's people to see their familiar cultural factors, and thus to love this film culture. 

        In order to realize the diversity of film culture, Hollywood has long been an open attitude gathered a large number of the world's film professionals, such as Ingrid Bergman from Sweden, the United Kingdom of Vivien Leigh, Australia, Mel Gibson, and China's Jackie Chan, Jet Li, John Woo, and other famous artists. These different nationalities, different historical and cultural background to bring together artists of Hollywood, has laid a solid foundation for the diversified development of American movies.

Diversity In Film

Diversity In Film

        When Halle Berry became the first African-American actress to win an Academy award for Best Actres in 2002，she was said “This moment is for Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, Diahann Carroll. It’s for the women that stand beside me - Jada Pinkett, Angela Bassett, and it’s for every nameless, faceless woman of color that now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened.”
       

         American film tries to transcend the various regions of the world, the movie version of all nationalities, all classes and different political and cultural differences, to achieve its aim of globalization. Such as Spielberg's "Schindler's List" is a typical German awakening of conscience, and not hesitate to risk their lives to rescue Jews rebel Nazis and the true story of the creation of the master copy of the film, the film is clearly a humanitarian spirit is important ideological background. 

           In order to achieve the film's transcendence, the Americans also took heterozygous multicultural approach to film-making, in an attempt to meet the different countries and regions, different ethnic and cultural traditions people's aesthetic needs. America itself is a nation of immigrants, and the arrival of multi-ethnic blend makes this country from the beginning of the founding of a strong foreign culture of inclusiveness, it is also based on this point, it was decided the American movies cultural diversity.

Racism in Social Media

Racism in Social Media

Photo on the left of this dance wearing a blue dress, black hair, dark skin Barbie is marked in red trademark promotional price $ 3, and the right dance clothes,, blonde wearing a red white Barbie is an ordinary yellow trademark marked price of $ 5.93, the price difference of nearly doubled.

According to the American Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported that retail giant Wal-Mart is the world's largest users of a branch of protest in Louisiana sell Barbie dolls of different colors and different because of the price the same paragraph, accused of alleged racial discrimination.

Image display, color is black, priced at $ 3 Barbie dolls, Barbie dolls white complexion is selling $ 5.93, but these two Barbie dolls are also on display at the same horizontal position trafficking, particularly interesting. Obviously, only a different color and other aspects of exactly the difference between the price of Barbie nearly doubled, so it stores was suspected of racial discrimination and controversial. A netizen first put the price of the goods and paid as usual contrast on the humor site FunnyJunk.com, then gradually being posted, caused a lively discussion.

Films about race and ethnicity

"Films about race and ethnicity

     Racial issues in the international arena continues for a long time, and until now have not been fully resolved, as an outsider, we always stand on the critical position of white racists, for obvious reasons, they are the direct executor of discrimination against blacks in this behavior. 

     In the movie, most of the black race are more backward countries, some for many years in the war, which makes us feel that their living environment in turmoil, frequent wars, their citizens are very aggressive, easy to riot. We see the places where blacks tend to be ghetto, a variety of drug trafficking, violent events happened here, so we think they are so in the subconscious.

      "The Help" is adapted from Kathryn Stockett's novel, about a social phenomenon in the 1960s Mississippi occurred. A college girl could not understand American society Skeeter very unfair treatment of black maids, wants to write a book to help these maids out of the woods.

Reflections of gender roles in films

 Reflections of gender roles in films

   Men seem to always be in the movie leadership, more capable and culture, and women are always in a position to be protected, no male wisdom and calm, a lot of movie hero to the rescue of the screen. Think about it, no matter how strong the girls, the men's final are needed relief. In the movie, the most attractive than the beautiful people of it, we are seduced by the beauty, whether or sportsman beauties, have become movie buy the most important part. But most of the film and television work, women will always be "vase class" figure, a closer look at think about it, what the movie looks more women are ugly, while the men in the trade request is not very high. Most men grasp of social wealth, beautiful or not does not matter, while women are more concerned about the appearance. 

  "Like a man can not spit chewing tobacco can not be the same with men," remember this speech right, very familiar with the classic "Titanic", Rose told Jack to go to school in the deck spitting, discovered by her mother, was chatter. This also affects virtually our ideas, women should ensure that there are rules, but to no avail bohemian describe women. In the invisible effects movie, we find it difficult to accept the feminization of men. Under normal circumstances, the community is hate girly men, because men are usually set by society should be masculine. Worth thinking about is that in film and television works, to create image of women, in order to meet the needs of the community deliberate or unconscious behavior? 

 

We always pay attention to in life, but should be gradual, sometimes deliberately pursue equality of both sexes, but promotes inequality.

Gender And Power In Film

Gender And Power In Film

Women and girls are ignored, these films are 2.24 ratio of male and female roles: 1.30.9% of the speaking roles are women, the most frequent female role is China, Germany, South Korea and the UK Film, Korean film up women leaders person. Britain alone make a film comparing gender equality, but if in tune with the United States, more women would be excluded. Action adventure film role of women at least. 

Men have more power in the film, the characters in 10 percent of politicians are women, 5% of judges are women, 13.9 percent of business leaders are women, and no lawyer firm partner among women. All movies only one female ruler: "Frozen" the queen. Engaged in science, technology, engineering and mathematics related work roles, 88.4% were male, that male to female ratio was 7.6: 1. 

Compared with men, women are more likely to be personalized in the film, wearing sexy clothes, naked, showing slender three areas, the proportion of women and girls have reached double role of men and boys. 13-year-old and 39-year-old female roles are personalized proportion almost. Comments on the female characters in the movie appearance is the appearance of the comments on the male five times. 

In a total of 1452 people participated in filmmaking, 20.5 percent are women, but only 7% of directors are women. 19.5% of writers are women, 22.7% of producers are women. France, Japan, Russia, the United States and South Korea no female directors at this year's movies. England did the best in this regard, there are 27.3% and 58.8% of female directors female screenwriter.

Gender inequality in the movies

  Gender inequality in the movie

If women do the director or screenwriter, movie female characters will increase. The number of female directors female characters appear in the film 6.8% higher than the male director of the film, the number of female characters in the movie appearing female screenwriter 7.5 percent higher than men screenwriter of the film.

The study by the American College of Journalism and Communication, University of Southern California, completed Sept. 22, actor and social activist Gina Davis presented findings to the public. Gina Davis is a supporting actress Oscar winner, who starred in the feminist movie "Thelma Louis", is also a screenwriter, producer and archery athletes, "Gina Davis Media and Gender Institute," she created with the United Nations women's Department and the Rockefeller Foundation, along with support for the study. 

Scholars at the University of Southern California, has studied gender discrimination in American movies, they want to learn more about the global situation. The new study covering ten popular movies most profitable countries: Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Russia, South Korea, the United Kingdom, they also analyzed the Anglo-American co-production film, and the United States as a comparison. All films are in between January 2010 to April 2013 screened.

The report noted that in these films, there is the role of the lines represents less than one-third of the women, they also showed fewer people are in power. In the film the show employment, only 22.5 percent are women, appears in the movie business leaders and political figures, as well as technology, engineering, mathematics-related practitioners, women less than 15%.

Constructed gender roles of women in movies

Constructed gender roles of women in movies-

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore 

      Alice Does not Live Here Anymore was taken in 1974, is in the height of the feminist movement a second time, although the director does not recognize that it is a female movie, but its fate for women's survival, the value of search, the role of conversion to sex Discussion and thinking mainly carried object is not consciously integrate feminist perspective, objectively expressed a concern for women of life and expression.

      A housewife struggling with a loss in daily life, and suddenly suffered a major turning point in life - her husband died in a car accident that he had to assume alone the responsibility of raising 12-year-old boy.

Sell ​​possessions, childhood trek to the city where, on the way to the bar to sing for a living. Thus, to childhood city became mother and son shared yearning, is their hope. They reach the first city on the way to a sad cry to get the opportunity to sing in a small bar, also haunted by a swindler had fled in panic. When they reached the second city, unable to obtain work as a singer, only to go to a restaurant as a waiter. Also in the restaurant, she gains his love - a farmer's love. After struggling, his son has a good friend here, Alice gave up the idea to his childhood city, real and farmers together.  Alice Does not Live Here Anymore shows heroine Alice's spiritual growth, personal self-difficult process to identify the cause of female growth, self-reliance tough ultimate cause - the male-centered consciousness, personality and improve the process by Alice explores the way women's issues.

80 years of American women‘s social life history

From 12 Disney Princess movies, social life history of American women 80 years   

Film and fashion as a social and cultural benchmark, the inevitable with age mark. From 1937 first princess movie "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" come to the 2013 "Frozen" Hot, twelve princess movies, spanning nearly 80-year era of change, although there is no continuous story of these films on , but there is still a visible clue gleaming: to enhance the development and status of women feminism.

There is no feminist consciousness without brain princess: snow, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0niwn2pOEno

      Snow apparently still weak nor a brain, she did not show any resistance or independent spirit in the film, in addition to singing and dancing, and small animal friends - after these three characteristics have become the standard for all Disney Princess - is in the forest chased by hunters, casually eating the Queen's poison apple, lying in a coffin waiting to be Prince Wen Xing. Snow beginning to end in a completely passive state, and even her hit song "Someday my prince will come" full of blind optimism and passively wait mentality. Of course, the presence of snow also conform to the historical needs, in 1937 the United States, the Great Depression of the remaining prestige has not faded. Fear of the American people really need such a fairy tale rekindle the faith and courage of their lives, also proved, Snow White born at the right.

    Post-feminist era of princesses (The Little Mermaid began, Mulan so far), and finally learned to make men do dream, they dream of becoming like men, even men do do, ride the battlefield, make contributions (at least Mulan is such) . However, a more in-depth feminism, women do not want to become like men (can not deny the differences between men and women physical and mental), but not to a woman and a man showdown, but to put aside examine male to female , the definition of the identity of women by women themselves, thinking their own strengths and weaknesses. Women's dreams should be to please "their" instead of pleasing the patriarchal society. So confident feminists should ask yourself: what "I" want? Among the Disney Princess from 2009 played "The Princess and the Frog" began, including "Tangled" in Rapunzel, "Brave" in Merida, until 2013 "Frozen" in Elsa and Anna, all with this kind of self-consciousness, so I referred to them as "a new era of feminist princess."

From a "Brave" to this part "Frozen", the theme of the film has been transferred to the relationship between women and women up. "Brave" is about her daughter, "Frozen" began to talk sisters. Tablets male role image has become increasingly worse. Princess movies, has increasingly become a "female movie." "Brave" in even a decent prince did not, "Frozen" is the completion of the unprecedented initiative: Prince finally bad, the entire film, became the biggest villain. Has experienced eight years of changing times, the men finally from the "savior", reduced to a "behind"! Women finally realized a long time to suppress the liberation of women, not others, are men!

Gender (Male or Female) Stereotypes Diversity in Film

Tuesday，September 23,2014

As the two categories of male and female differences are significant groups in the dialogue process will exhibit their own characteristics, especially in the choice of words and sentences have many different ways, and this is gender differences in terminology.Unlike the movie dialogue as literary works written in the language of the majority, with descriptive, but a rich language spoken form. Moreover, due to the diversity of the characters in the movie, but also makes their words more representative of different types of people. This difference is reflected in the film is particularly evident in the dialogue, and throughout every film men and women always communicative process.
Gender Differences include voice differences, language differences, language differences in style and so on, which is a very important difference in terms of parts. Language and choice of words and sentences into. Between the user the choice of words and sentences in the way language is closely related.
Example："When Harry Met Sally "in the dialogue:
Harry: Well ...... I'm getting married. 
Sally: You ??
Harry: ah. 
Sally: Really?! 
Harry: Really. 
Sally: Who is she? 
Harry: Helen Herson, she is a lawyer, she wanted to keep the original name. 
Sally: You're getting married (Sally laughs.)?! 
Harry: What's so funny for this!? 
Sally: But you seem very optimistic, Harry. 
Harry: if you know the impact of mad love a person you will feel amazing. 
Sally: Great. See you embrace life with this attitude is really good. 
Harry: yes ah. Also, when you got tired of it all the time ...... 
Sally: What is everything? 
Harry: single life everything ...... 
Sally: Really? You really think so? 
Harry: Of course!
Linguists generally considered the more emotional female speech thick, so women often use the word interjection and tone.From a scene, we can summarize the following differences.Women prefer to use euphemisms, delicate tone, while men favor was more straightforward, rigid tone, also shows women are more subtle, more men than confident deeper features.
Gender stereotypes at the movies
http://socialistworker.org/2010/08/11/gender-stereotypes-at-the-movies

10 Gender Stereotypes Explained in The Movies

http://www.totallytop10.com/entertainment/movies/gender-stereotypes-in-the-movies

History of gender stereotypes

History of gender stereotypes

In primitive society, men engaged in hunting and fighting, women were collectedand parenting. In the agricultural society, live the life of men tilling the farm and women weaving, in feudal society, women are ethical constraints, activities arelimited within the family, men have more social freedom of communication, widely commended is "behavior pattern as an understanding wife and loving mother"and "man".

After entering the capitalist society, women freedom from the shackles of feudalfamily, participate in more social activities. But the traditional concept of gender role is still a man should have the ambition, ambition and independence,behavior of rough bold, dare to compete, namely with "masculinity"; womenshould be compassionate and sensitivity, good housekeeping and child rearing,on gentle and considerate, gentle in manner and quiet, namely with "female temperament". Consistent gender role where its behavior mode and the desired,will be affected by the social acceptance and approval; otherwise, would have been mockery and ridicule people around or rejection. Social open up further,more adult women's participation in social activities, in the past traditional maleoccupation, while men share some housework all the year round by the women do the. Not only that, in the hair, dress and behavior habits, also played asignificant change. This kind of change and further into the contemporary society, accepted by people, become a part of contemporary social culture.Originally, in real life, many men and women behavior is common, only a handful of behavior has characteristics of different gender roles. Even so, only the performance of male or female behavior characteristic of the people is only a very few, most people are more or less some specific characteristics. The so-called "gamy" melted in male and female behavior characteristics in one. The word androgyny comes from two Greek roots Andro (male) gyny (female).Dissemination of such behavior patterns, will be conducive to the traditional concept of gender role conflict eliminated.

http://www.healthguidance.org/entry/15910/1/List-of-Gender-Stereotypes.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_role