Goal

Be able to explain
Gender Roles
Feminism
Sexism
Use knowledge to analyze 1950s culture

Agenda
Notes
Ch. 3 pregnancy Project 36-48
Conferences Pt. 1

Pop Culture Nores

Gender roles
Sexism
Femminism

Topic/Objective: Gender Roles,

Feminism, and Sexism intro

Name
Date
Period

EQ: What are Gender Roles? What is Feminism? What is

Sexism? How can I use my knowledge of these things to
analyze pop culture decades?
Pre-Reading
Have you ever
been told that you
cannot do
something based
on your sex?

What colors are

typically assigned
to males and
females?

Vocabulary
Human Rights
Gender Equality
Gender Roles
Stereotypes
Sexism
Feminism

A right that belongs to everyone

Rights/opportunities are unaffected
by gender
Determines how men and women in
society should act, dress, think, and
interact
A fixed, oversimplified idea/image of
a person/group
Prejudice, stereotyping,
discrimination based on sex
(Typically against women)
Belief that men and women should
have equal rights and opportunities

Videos on website

In what ways
have you seen or
experienced
sexism or
inequality?

In what ways have

you seen or
experienced sexism
or inequality?
Have you ever been
told you cannot do
something based on
your sex*?
(Because youre a
girl or because
youre a boy)

*Sex= Biological
Gender= Self
Identification/representation

In what ways have you

seen or experienced
sexism or inequality?
Have you ever been
told you cannot do
something based on
your sex? (Because
youre a girl or because
youre a boy)
Have you ever felt unc
omfortable simply walk
ing down the street?
Alone
With friends

 Have you ever been harassed?

How do you feel when you whistle or
catcall at a girl/ How do you feel
when whistles and catcalls are
directed at you?
How are you supposed to feel or
react to this behavior? What is the
intention?
Have you ever been told your outfit
is inappropriate?

What its like to be a woman at night

Walking in NYC as a woman (GIF version)
What men really say when they catcall
Women Catcalling
Blind Dates/ Internet Dating: Men worry
shell be fat. Women worry hell be a
rapist/serial killer

What message do you

believe is being delivered
by
commercials similar to thi
s one
?
What are they really
selling?
How does it make you feel
as a man or as a woman?
Media 2013 Failure for
Women
How do you think society
is influencing your
behavior in terms of
gender? How can we elicit

Why do most women

wear makeup?
*And stereotypically
buy clothing a lot?
Why do women have
to shave their
legs/armpits?
How long does it take
you to get ready to
go out
for school?
with friends?
What are you usually
thinking about as you
get ready?

*For more on women in the economy you can look a

this article

Sons
When it comes to mother/fatherhood I do not hesitate to say that I would want to raise all-boys
I would want to be a Mother/Father all sons
If Ive learned anything about being a man its that being a father is designed to be a contact sport and far too many of us retire before we even see what the field looks like
If Ive learned anything about being a woman it's that no matter how empowering I seem my existence was designed never stand a chance
when state of Ohio found two 16-year-old boys guilty of raping a 16-year-old girl
both boys cried her eyes out moments after the verdict
every major media news outlet codded them
instead of the girl they raped
CNN was grieving over the death of their futures in football
they said nothing of the cemetery growing inside the body of the girl
nothing of the graveyard where she will bury her trust in men
Rape culture is the worst kind of teacher our kids are learning the most from
It teaches women that it's their responsibility to not get raped
It teaches men that boys will be boys
It teaches us that a short skirt and a smile is asking for it
It teaches us that its not wrong unless someone comes to her rescue
and this, this is why I want all boys
because it's moments like these verdicts that make me numb to my own anger Afraid the even talk about this out loud
the part where our first line of action as the people seeking justice to trust the police more than we trust our children
Is to make shelter out of the prison cell instead of showing them the way home
is to use juvenile detentions as an excuse for free childcare
The part where we celebrate our decision to throw another black boy into a cage and trust that prison will teach him how to respect women better than we ever could if we didn't give up on him
Jails will not fix broken people jails will break them harder
Until all of them are shards of mirror hurting everyone around them
No wonder we cant see our reflections in their mistakes
Where do you think they learned this from anyway?
Cont. on next slide

I'll be damned if I stood here said

that I only have the capacity
to love someone whose only been at the edge a knife
at the barrel of a gun
and not have enough love to go around for the one
whos holding the weapon
and ask where did they get that from?
Who taught them how to use it like that?
I'm not saying to feel sorry for anybody and
Im not going to apologize for the way I feel about an issue as complex as
this one as complex as we are
Im saying
that one day
I'm going to be a mother/father
and I'm going to have a son
and if I don't raised him in a community that will help me teach him how to unravel himself from his sexism
from his patriarch
from the rotten parts his masculinity
if he doesnt learn better from me than
what will rape culture teach him when I'm not looking
hes as good as crooked cops treat you

What does Boys

will be boys
mean?
Do you agree
with that
statement?
Explain.

Is it okay/right to look at nude photos of

someone that were not given directly to
you?

Jlaw: Response to Photo Leak

Emma Watson: After her UN speech she
was threatened How should this att
ack be viewed?

Misc. Video Links

Gender Marketing
Dove
Break the Box
Heterophobia

Informal Informative Writing

One- Page min.
Demonstrate what you have learned on this
topic by informing your reader/audience of
the issue(s). State how it impacts you/your
life/ how youre viewed as well as your
opinion on the matter.
Basically, What does it mean to be a
lady/man in 2014 based on society?
How can we change how were viewed and
how others view us based on gender/sex?

Option A

What does it mean to be

Assignment

First half= Just Because

Just because I am ______________
I am not_______________
I am not_______________
I am not_______________
I am ________________
Second Half= What it means to be a
boy/girl in 2014
What youre taught it means vs What it
means to you

Option B
Write your own Slam Poem to
demonstrate what youve learned,
your opinion, how it effects you, and
what needs to happen.
How many speakers?
How are things said?
BOLD, Italics, underline=
sound/meaning effects
View slam poems online to draw