Gender

The challenging part about the gender role given to me by media as a teenager is definitely either the fact that girls are supposed to be so skinny and perfect looking or the fact that your supposed to be all girly and fragile. The problem with the whole fragile/girly one is that especially around my friends, I am the complete opposite of that and so often people just joke around about how manly I am, which is no big deal but it does get a little annoying. One thing about my gender role that I like is that I am allowed to both show my feelings and be a woos sometimes and no one can say otherwise because that is what is expected of a girl. Media definitely advocates being heterosexual as many jokes are targeted at gay men and really aren't usually put into a show unless they are being made fun of. This is why many gay people are picked on so often because that is what people see on the media. As far as a relationship between a man and a woman goes in media, people are influenced for the man to be the strong reliable one while the woman does cleaning and needs to be supported by the man. This becomes a problem esspecially when a man loses his job and then feels like less of a man because he felt like it was his responsibility to suppor the family.