Who's The Master? I Dream of Jeannie Feminist Critique.

Episode 1 of the 1965 NBC television show I Dream of Jeannie, shows a United States astronaut Tony Nelson’s spacecraft, Stardust One being forced to crash-land on a deserted island in the South Pacific. On the island he finds an odd bottle and when he opens it a beautiful genie comes out named Jeannie, after being released she follows Tony back to Florida and devotes her life to serving her new master. I Dream of Jeannie plays into the common ideology of the 1960 women of being submissive to the man, but also defies that ideology, because although Jeannie is supposed to serve Tony she constantly goes against his wishes and does what she wants.

In the 1960s the woman's role was to be a good housewife, and be totally submissive to the man. In I Dream of Jeannie when Tony arrives at his home his fiancee Melissa finds Jeannie taking a shower and wearing Tony’s shirt, she immediately gets upsets and tells him that she has always been “tolerant” of his behavior, but really gets hysterical and storms out of his house. In this scene when Melissa says she is “tolerant” is falls right back into the ideology of women being submissive, and having accept the behavior of their male spouse and not question it. After Melissa storms out Jeannie tries to seduce Tony, turning her into the other common ideology of the seductress or “homewrecker”.

Although Tony is Jeannie’s “master” she constantly defies him and goes against his wishes and ultimately does what she thinks is best or funny. When the General and Melissa stop by Tony’s home to make sure he is fine after being deserted on the island, Jeannie turns herself into a clone of Melissa and makes Tony look crazy. After they leave Jeannie busts out into laughter but Tony doesn’t find it amusing, when Jeannie goes against his wishes she also goes against the ideology of women being totally submissive, and shows that men don’t have the control and although she is there to serve Tony he isn’t taking all control of her.

Clinton Bashing Or Giving Facts...

In this ad, Clinton is tieing Trump to the white supremacists of the world. Hillary is using pathos to make the audience feel a certain way about Trump's supporters. Clinton's pathos is believable due to her evidence of white supremacists associated with Trump.
White supremacists and trump believe in the same things, making trump out to be supporting the whites. In the background of this part of the video you hear one the "KKK" members say this, which makes it more believable. The first concern, is donald trump actually supporting the supremacists in their movement. Why are the members so comfortable with saying that Trump supports them if it wasn't true?
A reporter then asks Trump does he want the vote from the white supremacists, he replies saying he has no idea what the white supremacists are. which makes that very hard to believe, because with history this country provides all the way from slavery how could you not know what the supremacists are? Which brings up the question why is donald trump acting so brand new to this situation.
Then with Trumps new campaign CEO is a supremacists, so with that being said, there's nothing much else to say honestly.
All of this being said in one campaign ad, really leaves us, the people, thinking is this someone we want to be in office soon. Do you really want history to repeat itself even more than it already has?

Times have changed.

The summary is that the television program,  I Dream of Jeannie was an old show that  focused on a genie who had been trapped in a bottle for 2000 years because she refused to marry the Dijon.  Like so many television programs during this time period female characters were portrayed as not having equal rights. Although this show was created clearly for entertainment purposes it showed our society that women were inferior to men and was quite sexist.

An example of the show being sexist was each time Major Anthony Nelson called Jeannie or whistled for her to come to him she would always comply. Throughout the years our culture has changed how women are viewed in Hollywood, Politics, & everyday careers which is a good thing.

An American Family

The television show "Family Guy" is a very popular show to watch. The ideology of the show is how a ordinary american family is supposed to act. Like in the show the husband has to job and the wife doesn't and she does all the cleaning. This is a false statement because some family the husband don't work and they are the stay at home cleaning and doing all the house work. So basically the show is telling a false story in how a american family should be like.

A Real "Walking Dead" Man

“The Walking Dead” is a show aired weekly on the television network AMC. The show’s main character Rick Grimes, is a sheriff and family man who has just awaken in a hospital room and soon realizes that the world has been hit by a zombie apocalypse. In this episode Rick is shown as a strong, brave, and emotionless stereotypical man. Rick quickly learns how kill what the show calls “walkers” and leads his family and a group of survivors on a journey to find a safe place to live. This episode shows the ideology of what the world considers a man to be.

Modern Family

I believe that the show Modern Family is a true story but also a false story. I think it is a true story because it shows the way some families are. It also shows a gay couple which you don’t normally see on television because they aren't truly excepted into our culture yet. It also shows the way families fight but at the end of the day they all come together and make up. This, also makes it a false story because there aren’t supposed to be any happy endings and in almost every episode there is a problem, how they deal with the problem and some how it always ends up getting fixed. But it is also stereotyping because its pretty much saying that this is how families act and that's how they should resolve it and in a perfect world at the end of the day all of our problems will be solved. That's a Hollywood thing. But, what they do a good job how is showing different people with different perspectives. They show this by doing little interview asides and showing how they feel on the situation. Altogether, Modern Family is more of a True story.

True "American Dad"

There are plenty of animation shows on cable today. However, one can't say that any of them are quite like American Dad. American Dad supports bad stereotypes because the show has many examples of patriarchal norms.

Throughout the show American Dad Stan displays many negative stereotypes that depict women and the roles they can and can not have. In the show, Francine waits for Stan to get home to allow Stan to decide how he would like to punish the kids. Francine should be allowed to make those kinds of decisions and this shows how Francine is more the servant to Stan in this relationship. Another great example can be found in a major promotional image for the show. Francine is looking up at Stan her husband and he is staring off into space and how she is in a position lower than her husband in power roles. Often times these things go unspoken in our society or ignored.




American Dad shows off many negative stereotypes. These kinds of stereotypes need to be represented in a way that people will see that it is a bad thing. These stereotypes should be represented but in a way that is viewed as something that should be stayed away from.

Profound ideologies in ¨The Revenant¨

The Revenant, is the story of a father and son who set out on a dangerous expedition with a group of men to explore America in 1823. This story is a false story because it supports unrealistic, but desired ideologies. The storyline portrays men as being unstoppable, if provoked, and truly filled with an unrealistic rage. Most men could not survive ridiculous bear wounds, as well as many other gruesome injuries, but not Leonardo Di´Caprio(the main character/father). The idea that men must do the dangerous exploration as well as other vigorous tasks is also shown throughout, as women play a miniscule role in the film. This relates to the American ideology that men must do the hard labor and be strong. Finally the ¨Justice will always prevail¨ concept is clear throughout, as the father goes through enormous tasks and injuries, yet still gets revenge in the end. This also connects to Tim O´Brien´s words, as no true story will leave you uplifted in the end, and will never be moral. Overall The Revenant was not a true story.

The Perfect "American Dad"

American Dad is a show aired late night, a cartoon for teenagers and adults. The show perpetuates the ideology of how a man is supposed to be, and what he is supposed to do. Stan, the main character and father, works for the CIA and is shown as incredibly muscular and big. He has a deep voice, proudly wears the American Flag, and is the sole provider for his family.



His son, Steve, is a sympathetic “cry-baby”, but Stan, being the perfect “American Dad”, has to make his son into a man by hammering the ideology of the perfect “American Man” into his head. The perfect man in America is usually big, muscular, handsome, rich, and brave, and all of these qualities describe Stan.

Park and Recreation: Breaking Workplace Stereotypes

For sometime now, Parks and Recreation has been my favorite show. Leslie Knope, who is a main character played by Amy Poehler shows the true power a woman can have in the public sphere, such as the workplace. I went back to the first season to watch an episode that came off as feminist to me, which was episode 4, titled “Boy’s Club.” Throughout this episode many stereotypes of women in the workplace and home are broken. Women in the office are able to join in on the typical men activities in the workplace and the idea of a housewife does not exist. Although this episode and the show in general is pretty feminist, some of the men at the office say some sexist things. The sexist things they say feed into mocking the idea of stereotypes. 

As stated in the title, this episode was about a boy’s club that goes on at the office. The name is misleading though because women in the Parks and Recreation department are treated like one of the guys, equal. Every Tuesday night, the boys club, which is a group of coworkers, meets on the patio outside of the office. One night, Leslie decides to join them with one of her friends, Anne. They are welcomed by all the men and are even allowed to drink with them. By joining the men, Leslie and Anne broke the stereotype that just men drink after a long day of work. They also broke the rules of the boys club, where previously, no girls were allowed. After attending a few meetings, Leslie drops all the bottles of beer on the floor by tipping over the table and the men are cleaning up after her and she says “look at those B---s cleaning up after me.” This breaks the stereotypes that women are the ones who usually do the cleaning. Leslie is also speaking from the stereotypical male’s point of view by stating that the women should be doing the cleaning. 

While the boys cleaned up the beer Leslie spilled off the table, it became clear that the idea of a housewife does not exist. Typically in the past, women are expected to clean and stay at home to take care of the family. That stereotype was broken by Andy, Anne’s boyfriend. When she goes off to work, he cleans the house. This breaks the stereotype the women do the housekeeping. Another typical housewife stereotype is broken by Andy because he is trying to be successful in music but in the meantime, he stays at home and does nothing and doesn't have a job. Anne does. She is the one with the job in the relationship which breaks the housewife stereotype where the women usually stays home and prepare for the family while her husband is at work. Although those barriers are being broken, there is always going to be someone who tries to build those barriers back up.

One of the barriers is rebuilt in this episode because the men say and do sexist things. Ron says his idea of a government is only a man sitting in a room at a desk and have women brought to him when he desires him. This statement is sexist because he doesn’t think that just anyone could run the government, it would have to be a man. He also objectifies women by saying that they should be brought to the ruler of the government whenever. Another example is before Leslie and Anne came along, the men at the office had a boys club where no women are allowed to be in. They meet on Tuesday nights and drink beer. This is sexist against women in a way where they can’t enjoy a drink or 2 with their coworkers because only men are allowed. One last sexist scene in the episode is when Tom asks Leslie if she has every had a dream about their boss, Ron, sexually and she says no. This is the stereotype that workers are sexually attracted to their boss or vice versa. Despite all of the sexist comments that may go on, Leslie never seems to let it get to her and continues to hold her strong beliefs in women in the political world and her home town. The only sexist people in the workplace are the men, which is very relatable to my past work experiences. 

In many ways, Leslie and the other Parks and Recreation characters break the workplace and home stereotypes but of course there is always going to be those people who are sexist and try to break it down again. This occurred in my workplace as well over the summer. My boss would often make the girls clean the locker rooms, at the pool where I was a lifeguard, and always let the boys go home early if the chance came along where we didn’t need any more life guards than we already had. He also gave one of the guys a raise and a higher position but never gave the option to a girl. By the end of the summer all the girl lifeguards could tell that he was always in favor of the boys and was just all around sexist. My boss relates to Ron, the parks and recreation department head. Although there are sexist remarks that come from some of the male workers, Parks and Recreation is a show where women are treated like one of the guys in the office and aren’t seen as the typical housewife. Overall, society is always going to have those people who are sexist but Parks and Recreation makes a stand against it in a way where they mock the sexist and give power to the women in their town and in politics.

Here is Leslie and Anne attending a boys club meeting. 

You can also watch the episode here:

OREO GIRL

Why is this relevant? That's a good question i asked myself the same thing.It is relevant because this is a commercial were a little girl is just worried about her father’s health and just wants him to be healthy. You’d think race shouldn't matter right?!?!? WRONG.

Just recently that happened in a cheerios commercial featuring a mixed race family this is the 21 century their are black and white kids everywhere rather you realize it or not but the fact of the matter is that they should not target any young child for any reason race, religion etc.

In American history black men were known to leave their families and leave the mother to raise the children by herself or stereotypes where the black men would be brutal to the wife or both. Also blacks in general were not on the same level as whites. Whites were seen as more superior than blacks.Biracial couples and or children were rare especially on national TV very few are even broadcast .

People are afraid/ shock to see a happy family. Black people weren't allowed to be in relation with the opposite race(whites). This is where we get to the brute how black men were consider women beaters or that a black man isn't worthy to be with a white woman.

This time in society this shouldn't happen point blank.It should really never be a thought other than look at the cute little girl. I guess some people still have to cope with the thought i guess. But one thing my mama always taught me was that if you have nothing nice to say then don't say anything at all:-).

 

Feminist Critique

Throughout the world, stereotypes place men in category and men women in another. These stereotypical roles often limit abilities, that however is not the case in this episode of the Boondocks. The episode shows how men need women as much as women need men. It breaks the housewife stereotype because the woman in this episode is very independent and can take care of a man if she pleases. It’s also shows the typical male views of a female, which isn't always right. This is promoting the feminist ideology, by showing how men depend on women, women are as independent as men, and women aren't helpless.

In the beginning of the show, Robert was very upset at the fact he couldn't find a stable relationship. He even deleted his Facebook because he couldn't deal with not having a woman in his life. He really needed a woman’s presence to not only make him happy, but to be comfortable being a man. This shows how much he needed a woman, although men are seen as strong independent, financially stable people, he still needed her in order to feel needed in the world. Another example is when they were at the park and he was telling Uncle Ruckus and Tom, what type of woman he wants, and Ms. Ebony Brown came running by who was a perfect woman for him. This not only made him happy, but he had a new purpose and that was to get Ms.Brown. This shows how dependent a man can be on a woman even if he has everything, he still needs a woman’s love. Men aren't just dependent in women in this show, women are also very independent.

The women in the episode, Ms.Ebony Brown, was all alone and didn't need a man. She was financially stable, she even asked Robert out on a date, and she paid for a meal, which Robert himself thought was very expensive. This shows that women are independent and can do for themselves and don’t need men to do everything for them and the family, like it was stated in the old times. Ms. Brown also took a job in Africa at the end of the episode where she left and Robert came chasing after her. He felt so hurt that she was gone, and the entire time she wasn't thinking about him, but the job she had to perform. This really shows her being a working woman who prioritized her job before a man. Woman like this are usually portrayed as bitches, but Ms. Brown was kind a gentle. Woman aren't just independent, they are strong, not helpless as they are portrayed throughout the 20th century.

Throughout the episode it was thought that all the black women are crazy and Robert needed a stable white woman who is fragile and helpless in order to be happy. This shows the dominate male view on the episode which was obviously from a male gaze and doesn't show how strong the female race is not just the African American woman. Tom’s wife who was white, seemed to be the perfect woman, which wasn't true because throughout the episode Ms. Brown proved time and time again why she was not only an independent woman, but a strong one both physically and mentally in order to protect herself.

The world shows most things through a male gaze which is bad because you don’t get to realize how much men depend on the women in order to be happy. They may be sex objects, but the men always seems to be interested in them. You also wouldn't notice the growth of woman and how they are independent, and as strong as men, both physically and mentally. Not only is this a feminist critique, but it passes the feminist critique test.

Two Broke Girls

The T.V. show, "Two Broke Girls," on CBS promotes stereotypes, especially racial stereotypes. "Two Broke Girls" is about two girls that waitress at this small restaurant in Brooklyn. The two girls, Max and Caroline are “broke” and have to make ends meet anyway that they can. Max is the character that is supposed to be the “funny guy” or the “jokester”. She also the one who says most of the funny, yet stereotypical lines.

Two broke girls promotes stereotypes freely and openly in a comical way. They are promoting stereotypes that have already been placed and also shaped into society.

In this T.V. show Max and Caroline have a manager named Han Lee, he is a small-sized man from Korea. In multiple episodes Max knocks him for his size, but does it with a sense of humor, this making it funny. When Han Lee gets something wrong she criticizes him and makes point that Koreans’ never get things wrong and are very smart. The stereotypes are more placed towards him and his ethnicity, but he’s not the only one. There is also a very hot to trot, Eastern European man named Oleg. He is the cook at the restaurant that Max and Caroline waitress in. The T.V. show has him so that he is always saying something sexual to both of the girls. Which gears towards the stereotype that all European men are horny, and hit on all women. There is also a jive old man that works at the front desk. All he talks about is smoking weed and how many wives he's had. Which speaks upon the stereotype that black men has multiple wives. In almost every episode you can watch and see stereotypes towards these races. There are also stereotypes towards Caroline, a once rich white girl who lived off her fathers money. She became lost all her money and became a "broke girl". Because of her being rich she didn't know much since everything was handed to her. She thought she was too good for a lot of things in the first few episodes. This could be a stereotype that all white girls are rich as don't know anything.

The T.V. show Two Broke Girls is promotes stereotypes freely and openly. Although they do so in a comical way, it still has helped shape society and how people view various races.

Gossip Girl

The TV show “Gossip Girl”, is a show predominantly with white people, and has few people of color. One of the main characters “Blair,” has sidekicks. Blair is a privileged white girl that goes to a Catholic school. The sidekicks have no personality, no interests, no real lives other than to take orders from Blair, reinforcing the age-old colonial narrative as normal. Her sidekicks are woman of color, although throughout the show he sidekicks change. Blair is naturally superior to them and shows her superiority by demanding them to do things for her, whenever she wants.

Cultural Analysis of Race

"Family Guy" is a show that takes jokes to points where it becomes racist to all different races of people. It’s stereotypical references or cutaways usually have to do with someone’s nationality or someone's skin color being made fun of or being mimicked. The reason why its considered okay or why no one has done anything about it is because the whole show is a joke and no one can actually take it seriously. Most people find it funny because thats where the shows gets most of it’s jokes. This shows that in todays society shows like this that are only going for jokes don’t really bother people even when being made fun of but is still be racist or stereotypical.

Here is a clip of many different cutaways that have no relation to the show at all and are used to make a point but are exaggerated greatly and are stereotypical. In the first two scenes it’s making fun of asians because of their lack of driving skills. In the next one it makes fun of both canadian and mexican people. The stereotypes are that the canadian guy loves to watch curling and in the championship they are playing mexico and the sweeper for the mexican team is a maid cleaning instead of an actual athlete. It also makes fun of black women on how they say “mhm” but instead of saying it in a real conversation thats the only thing they are saying back to each other which never really happens. This shows that not of this actually true because of the exaggeration of all of it.

Cultural Analysis of Race

In this extremely controversial commercial, a Volkswagen Polo is driven to a busy area by an Arab man. The Arab man sets off a bomb in the car and the bomb doesn’t hurt anyone or anything outside the car, which is inferring the new car is super durable. The subject of Arab or Islamic people being terrorists is a hypersensitive subject in today’s society. After the 9-11 attack at the World Trade Center, the stereotype has been a touchy subject. This commercial is promoting the stereotype that many Arab people are suicide bombers and terrorists.

Volkswagen tried to reinforce a cultural stereotype about Arab people being terrorists by setting off a suicide bomb in a busy area. While the commercial does not say the man’s culture, they make it pretty obvious it portrays the typical Jihad style bombings we hear about on the news. What makes the commercial’s portrayal so effective is how the man gets in his car just to drive to a busy restaurant to set off the bomb. The man wanted to kill others while killing himself.

The stereotype of Arab or Islamic people being terrorists is a stereotype that nobody wants to admit, but is definitely alive in today’s society. In airport security, Muslims or Arabs are known to more likely get “randomly selected” for additional screening. After the tragedy on September 11, 2001, the media emphasis on Arab’s and Muslim’s being “violent” just pushed the stereotype even more. The dominant ideology that most Arab or Muslim people are terrorists is so large could also be due to the size of the Arab American and Muslim community. They take up only about 1% of the total U.S. population, so the negative stereotype is much harder to dismiss.

Gain Commercial

In the recent Gain commercial the creators promote and break stereotypes. These stereotypes are about gospel music and suburban life. This Gain commercial is in between stereotypes because the commercial shows black woman singing gospel music and white men singing as well. The commercial also breaks stereotypes in suburban life, showing blacks and whites in upper-middle class suburbs. This commercial shows that not only black women can sing gospel music and African American people can live in the suburbs.

In this particular gain commercial they promote and break a couple stereotypes. This commercial shows white women and men can sing just as well as an African American man or women. In this commercial they also promote this stereotype by having the majority of singers black. One scene in the Gain commercial shows white people in suburbs and in a different scene they show an African American man in a suburban home. Although they break the stereotype that only white people live in safe suburban communities, they only show one African American man in the community besides the gospel singers.

These types of stereotypes are displayed throughout media. They can be subtle but they are in almost everything. Media has the power to make or break stereotypes.

Gain Commercial

White Zombies

My cultural analysis is on a Key and Peele sketch called "White Zombies".  This video or sketch is mostly about how the zombies are racist because they wont eat the black people only the white people and as Key and Peele walk around to explore this behavior they notice how the zombies try and distance themselves from Key and Peele.  This kind of promotes racism by saying that whites as another form still wouldn't like blacks and that we are feared or disliked that much.  The question about this sketch is do all whites see blacks this way or should they really hate or fear us this much.  The video is kind of breaking stereotypes because most whites would probably think to themselves or get away at a way further distance.  The video also is keeps you thinking about if whites are actually like this towards blacks and if they are this afraid of us.

This video is questioning if all whites see blacks this way and should blacks be feared.

Glee

The popular show "Glee" has every race possible on the show. It doesn't come off as a show with racial stereotypes, but once you start noticing the way the different characters if different races act you know it is. Not only does it have someone of every race, there's also a person of every religion, sexual orientation, and clique or type of person. Even though the show has all this diversity, it does not challenge the "dominant way of thinking." In this blog post I will be talking about how stereotypes are used in it. Stereotypes from race, sexuality, cliques, gender roles, etc. The character Kurt Hummel who figures out he's gay in the middle of the show, is a stereotype. Not all gay men act feminine, or girly. Kurt has no masculinity at all, and is the typical stereotype of gay men. In the show and like in real life the two genders are not treated equally. The men in the show have more power than the women. Instead of challenging the stereotypes the show fits right in, all the gay men act like women and do not have power. The show also has the white people dominant, for example in the "glee club" which gives the show the name Glee. In the club there are 7 white kids, 2 Asian girls, 2 African-Americans, and a Hispanic girl. The show is mainly about white people, with other races as the minorities. The big plots in the show are based around the white people, the white people also get all the main dialogue. African-Americans, Asians, Hispanics, and any other race in the show are the minorities.

Family Matters

Today in America there is a lot of controversy in the racial profiling of young black men. This topic has increased in the past year or two because of huge incidents. The show family matters is an older television show based in the 90s have an example of an episode of "Family Matters" where the son Eddie Winslow got pulled over for a failure to use a signal. His father Carl Winslow is also a cop of the Chicago area in the show and has a few words for the police officers who questioned his son. The show is old and has an old school feel to it so its before all of the Ferguson and Garland incidents but was still relevant and a huge topic in the 80s and 90s. Another reason its relevant to todays life is because there are many people worried about racial profiling in America against black people. A specific moment in the scene is when the black officer asks why his son was pulled over and it was said that he looked like a certain criminal that the police were looking for. The black officer knew the other white officer was lying because he didn't fit the description and he was the in charge of looking for these certain criminals. This also applies to my own life because I've been stopped at least three times by the police in the last year and it was because i was in a big group of people who looked like we were up to no good.