Big Boys Don't Cry

Recently, I went to the movies and saw "Paul Blart: Mall Cop." This is a comedy starring Kevin James as Paul Blart. Blart is a security guard at the local mall who takes his job very seriously. His wife left him after using him for citizenship and he is single for years. His mother and daughter convince him to use an online dating service, and he searches for a match online. He meets what he thinks is his perfect match, Amy. After a bad evening in a bar, Amy wants nothing to do with Blart, but things change when he saves lives.

Although the "Mall Cop" is a big tough guy and saves lives, there are many times throughout the movie that he is crying. After the bad night in the bar, he starts crying when he thinks of Amy. He also cries in front of other cops. Blart is looked at as a baby because he cries in certain scenes throughout the movie. If there was a female crying in the movie, it would have been completely normal. Why is it that men cannot show emotion and be tough at the same time? I think this movie was good because it showed a full grown man crying. Society should not judge anyone for showing emotion.

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Just for the sympathy

Most all of you have seen the SPCA commercial with Sarah McLachlan telling us all how we should go to our phones and call the number to save animal's lives. If you haven't, click on the URL below and view it. As McLachlan says "With $18 a month, just $0.60 a day, you will save animals from their abusers, provide medical care, food, shelter, and love." Her song, "Angel" is playing in the background and she goes to say "right now, there is an animal that needs you, your call says I'm here to help. Please call, right now."


I'm definitely an animal lover and I support the SPCA, but I think that this commercial had intentions on being completely heart-wrenching with the famous female singer, Sarah McLachlan, as the spokesperson. On top of McLachlan petting a dog in the video, showing how supportive she is of the SPCA, she has her music playing the entire time. I don't think that the commercial would be as effective if there was a male as the spokesperson because females are often portrayed as more loving than males as seen in this video.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gspElv1yvc

Girl Fight

This week, we watched a film, "Girl Fight." In this film, Diana is a female that wants to train to be a boxer. At first the trainer, Hector, wanted nothing to do with Diana. Diana gets a lot of crap from people for boxing, and eventually she proves everyone wrong and wins in the ring.

Why is it that women aren't accepted as fighters? The movie was out in the year 2000, and even 9 years later, there are not many female boxers. Personally, I don't think that there are not many females in the ring because they don't want to fight, but because they are not accepted for what they truly want to do. For example- yesterday, one of my customers asked me if I knew any female boxers. Of course, my answer was "No," but her parents were actually shaking their heads telling her she cannot be a boxer.

Towards the end of the movie, Diana is forced to box her boyfriend (Adrian) in the championship, and he refuses to fight her. She told him that he better fight her, and when they did, she won. He was angry about it and then eventually got over it. I think that it should not matter male or female in the ring. It is proven in this movie that it doesn't matter, and it should be accepted that boxing is not just for men.

Anchors Away

This week I was watching the first episode of season 5 of Sex and the City, "Anchors Away." Basically, this episode is about "Fleet week" in NYC where a bunch of navy guys are in the city. Carrie and Charlotte, two of the main characters are looking for a hot navy guy. One of the guys stops Carrie in the middle of the street and invites them to a big navy party at the end of the week, and of course they accept. So, at the end of the week the girls are at the party.

I thought it was kind of strange that every navy person at the party was male. In reality, there are many women in the navy. I thought that this episode (and of course MANY of the Sex and the City episodes) was stereotyping. This episode was stereotyping that just men are in the navy. Also, I noticed that all of the men were model like men that were good looking and physically fit. I thought that this was saying that all men in the navy are in great shape and look like models. Although this was a good episode, there were a lot of things said about gender.

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