Different Roles and Responsibilities in the Series
In the series Buffy the vampire slayer, definition of sex and gender is also evidenced by the roles and responsibilities that men and women have in the society. The series dramatizes that men and women in the society have distinctive roles and responsibilities that define them. However, young women feel aggrieved oppressed and are struggling for independence and powerful ambitions. According to the writer, some articles describe gender by the look of a person’s body; a good example is when referring to Buffy’s spectacular body looks and Gellar’s breasts.
The media portrays women as overwhelmed, having beautiful body, feminine and always in strangle for empowerment. Men are portrayed by the media as having ego, domineering, bossy and always looking for submissiveness from the female.
Feminists regard gazing as a proclamation of power between the gazer and the one being gazed as an unequal one. In most of the cases patriarchy plays a role when women are seen as to have passive gazes to the active gaze of men.
Women in the Media
There is indeed unequal representation of gender and sex by the media. This is evidenced when the media focuses on sexuality of the female body and does not focus on male bodies. The writer notes that the mass media covet and cultivate a particular type of female body for their messages just like the American media used Buffs body. On the hand men are portrayed with masculinity and heroic they are seen to be very demanding and egocentric and are disturbed by independent minded women.
Girls are equally good as boys, Buffy being a young prom queen girl was able to relinquish here former self to being self aware, reliant, competent, and independence precisely what is being offered to women. The writer also notes that strong female characters with unique powers tend to spear head struggles and reject dependency from men. However, men heroism can be put to test by the fact that Angel, Buffy’s lover when restored does nothing expect rushing Buffy to the emergency room waiting for some one to save her life.
Week 7: Resistance
Comedy has been I identified as media source that tells the truth where it is not present. It is this reason that Jon Stewart nightly broad cast news on the daily show that has most viewers because it offers a glimpse of realistic news and informs its citizenry while giving a touch stone of sanitary.
Blog pages, cross fire episodes, Jon Stewart nightly broad cast, online streaming and YouTube are some of the forms of media that are mobilized to break information. In 2004, Jon Stewart media story was top cited in one of the blog sphere while his talk show on CNN cross fire was watched by more than 600,000 people. In addition million were able to watch the show using online streaming. Stewart has been accredited for hosting the talk shows and debating on journalism in the name of political debate and at the same time promoting patriotism.
Mediation is the ability to resolve a dispute between two or more aggrieved party. In reference to the text Jon Stewart through the daily show is able to successfully mediate a good relationship between the citizens and the white house by encouraging civilized discourse and responsibility to public discourse. Representation is the use of sign to stand for the sake of something else. Democracy is an egalitarian system of governance where all the citizens of a particular nation determine public policy that will govern them. Jon Stewart points out on the need to stop hurting the America; he was referring to other media houses who are biased and non partisan on how they report their news. By being partisan, one can argue that they other media houses are not being democratic: giving equal representation to all parties.