Question 1

Sexuality and sex are often used to sell products or win consumer attention.

Accepted Answer

Sexuality and sex are frequently utilized in advertising and marketing strategies to attract consumer attention and promote products, leveraging human interest in these themes to enhance engagement and sales.

Question 2

In Merchants of Cool, "midriff" refers to girls and women whose sexuality is linked to violence.

Accepted Answer

In "Merchants of Cool," "midriff" refers to the portrayal of girls and women in a highly sexualized manner, emphasizing their sexuality as their primary value, rather than linking their sexuality directly to violence.

Question 3

Kimmel's idea of revenge allows men to escape from adult demands.

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Question 4

Female heroes in video games, such as Tomb Raider's Lara Croft, are typically lesbians with extremely muscular bodies.

Accepted Answer

Female heroes in video games come in a variety of character designs and sexual orientations. Lara Croft, for example, is traditionally portrayed as heterosexual and while athletic, not necessarily with an "extremely muscular" body.

Question 5

When a mother listens to podcasts while cooking, she is experiencing "containated leisure."

Accepted Answer

The term should be "contaminated time," which refers to time spent doing leisure activities that are interrupted or diluted by the simultaneous performance of work or chores, not "containated leisure."

Question 6

Consider a gendered advertisement you have recently seen. Then analyze that advertisement through the lens of media power theory and audience power theory. How does each theory call attention to different features of the advertisement? Which of these two theories do you think provides the most compelling analysis? Explain.

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Question 7

Discuss the various ways that leisure is gendered and describe each of the five types of leisure explored in the text. Think back to all that you have learned from the text. What might you discover about leisure by applying an intersectional lens?

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Question 8

Describe the mainstream portrayal of women in Hollywood films. Define the key components of the Bechdel Test and apply it to a film that you have recently watched. What did you find?

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Question 9

(a) Explain the three "Rs" (Relaxation, Revenge, and Restoration) of Kimmel's analysis of video games, and explain how each of them relates to men's experience in society. (b) What are the limitations of Kimmel's analysis? Is it possible to resist the three "Rs"?

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Question 10

Discuss the media portrayal of African American, Arab, Asian, or working-class white men (choose one group). Which approach, Media Power or Audience Power, can best be used to analyze how the media perpetuates stereotypes?

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Quiz 10: How Does Gender Affect What You Watch, What You Read, and What You Play