Thursday, 3 October 2013

Personal Response

WWW; trying to bring theory into your answer and addressing the broad question of representation

EBI; lack of detail or depth to the two paragraphs. misunderstanding between mcrobbie/ enpowering women and haunt included butler.

LR; how would MCrobbie + butler respond to the video?

I believe that butler who believes gender roles are a 'performance' and that male and female behaviour is socially constructed rather than the result of biology. meaning that when male and female baby's are born the way we bring the up with pink toys and blue toys helps construct them in how they will be behaving later on as now we don't see males playing with 'Barbie toy.' Seeing the video butler would believe that the way women are represented in the video are due to them being socially constructed by it. This is because for example women in that video warnt always like that but as they turned older the life changed and as we are living in the modern world we see many people behaving like that due to the people that they are around makes them socially constructed like that and that it cannot be blamed to there parents. 
Angela MCrobbie who is a british cultural theorist known for her work analysing magazines aimed at women and teenager girls in the 80's and 90's. MCrobbie highlights the empowering nature of magazines such as cosmopolitan which is aimed at women and glamour which is also aimed at women taking a different perspective to traditional feminists. This idea of 'popular' feminism fits into the idea of

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