https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfSDhYATLlw
-Type of guys: Hitting on woman
-If Men were Women
The first video titled "Type of guys: Hitting on woman" portrays a very typical picture of gender roles. In this clip, the man, who is somewhat unattractive walks up to the beautiful woman minding here business and begins hitting on her. The man uses variously manly techniques in attempt to woo this woman. He talks with an accent and slang, and even lies about himself having more money. He tries to be exceedingly smooth and portray himself being "cooler" than he his. The woman on the other hand is smart and beautiful and just acts like herself. She employs no gimmick to make herself look more attractive, and often calls the guys out for their antics. This is a typical video of the man trying to be macho and hit on women. The woman is the target of the man who tries everything in the book to attract the pretty female. The female simply sits and waits and allows the man to struggle for her. This video targets an audience of both men and women who enjoy the parody of a typical man pursuing a woman. It is effective in this portrayal of this traditional scene very common in today's pop culture.
The second video is titled "If Men Were Women" and portrays the exact opposite of traditional gender roles quite explicitly. The video runs through many situations and switches the role a typical man would play with that of a woman. Some examples of these situations are a party scene where the men have to wait for the women to walk the home. They believe they can take care of themselves, but must wait for the woman anyway. Another scene is two woman walking past a man and checking out his rear. They are quite obvious and make lewd gestures and comments towards the man making him uncomfortable. He shakes his head and continues on. My personal favorite scene is a small male child sitting in front of a poster of presidents whom are all female. He looks up in disappointment when he sees none of these presidents are male. He sighs and moves on. This video is basically the exact opposite of the other video. Traditionally the guys are the strong leaders, the hunters, but in this case they are the prey. The men are subjected to treatment typical of woman and the portrayal honestly is very accurate. This video is intended more towards female viewers as it is difficult for men too see what is often reality. It is clearly aimed to bring attention to the inequality of treatment between mean and women As a man, it was interesting seeing this reversal and felt it had merit.
Overall, very interesting contrast between the videos. The first video shows the typical man chasing a girl and striking out. A very common depiction in popular culture. The second video, the role reversal, showed an explicit swapping of gender roles and was quite accurate. The contrast in these two videos is stark, but both videos useful in studying gender roles.
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