My life in Pink

The movie 21 is about a group of MIT students who broke the band in Sin City. The students defeated the Black Jack tables in Las Vegas by using their minds to count cards and win big. This movie portrays Vegas as a city where dreams can happen in a minute or your life could be over in matter of minutes. The movie was advertised with many different views about how Vegas is Sin City and it can either beat you or you beat Vegas. The main character is a very smart MIT student who realized Harvard Medical School is 300,000 dollar and he doesn't have the money for that. A group of students learn to count cards and plan to win big in Vegas. The main advertisement is the group of kids getting carried away with money, sex and living a double life than they would back at MIT.The Trailers for the movie are fast pasted and very exciting because it shows the group of kids embellishing in money and sex. The trailer first shows why the main character turns to counting cards and cheating his way through medical school. He realizes Harvard Medical School is 300,000 and he doesn’t have the money for it. So he teams up with a group of students to learn how to count cards and take over Vegas. After a couple of weekends of winning big he loses sight in why he was really there and spends a lot of money on living a new life which includes sex and women.The reason I chose to write about the movie is because gender my not be the main role in this film is sure does show how gender can influence certain decisions. After winning big in Vegas the kids start to loose sight why they are there and start to indulge in expensive clothes and stripers. They do this to live a double life and escape to a fantasy life where the only thing that matters is sex, alcohol and money. I don't like how they portray Vegas as nothing but sex and lies, the gender roles in this movie are mainly dominate by men but women are involved to be the second hand man if something goes wrong. These portrayals show gender roles in a negative way because of many different things. First off the main roles are dominated by men and the women are just their for show. The males are the smart ones who count the cards and the women are just there for looks which shouldn't be acceptable. Women are just as smart as men and they can be the lead card counter if they really wanted to. Lastly when the students start winning it shows them going to strip clubs and throwing around money like no one else exist to them. I don’t like this because it shows that if you don't have money than you are important to this society and they is the last thing we need when fixing this society

Dolce and Gabbana advertisements are always representing gender in very different ways. They always use ridiculous forms of advertising. All their ads look the same and are always different and out of the ordinary. This particular ad has every sort of gender in this ad. They almost have every ethnicity. They have a Chinese ethnicity, African American women, and white woman who is a redhead. They also have a male who represents a typical in shape good looking male. Dolce never usually uses text; they just have weird images and poses between the men and women in the ad. I don't think Dolce has to use text; their images are so vulgar text is really needed to express the emotion they are trying to express. I picked this ad because it expresses gender in such an extreme way. This ad shows different emotion with each different character in this ad. Each person represents a different ethnicity and they also represent a different emotion. I believe Dolce uses these types of ads because they want attention and when you see the ads you have to look and see whose ad this particular one is. I think they do a good job in the sense of advertisements but not the way they portray women and men when dealing with genders.

I am an advertisement major and Dolce and Gabbana are a highly talked about ad. Dolce has turned to a very vulgar statement when dealing with sex and beauty in their ads. In today's society sex is symbol to and a recognized as an accepting factor for kids and their school lives. I believe that sex sells to younger kids and they like being seen as beautiful and sexy. I believe that sex and gender is a more easily accepted topic with today's younger generation. I think Dolce is doing the right thing with their ads because sex sells and draws attention to their ads, but I don't think its acceptable to portray such women and men how they do in certain ads.

Opt Out Article October 7, 2008

The one thing that i agreed with in the article that Belkin said was that it is okay for women to stay home instead of having that executive job or that high class job because some women get more joy out of nurturing their child to become something great. I agreed with this because mothers who stay home and do that are to me more important than the moms that work the executive jobs and never see their kids only for a couple hours a day, how does that help our society? The only response I agreed with also that talked about this issue was the Boston Globe.

The Boston Globe was the only article that calm agreed with certain issues, other articles were extreme and very one sided. Rebecca Steintz expressed the women she came across in her everyday live. She basically stated that’s in not either or of the two figures, it the mix between the two. A mom that can juggle taking care of the kids, managing her husbands career and still having time to do what she loves, is the mom that comes out on top, and most mother seem to believe that they have to either work or stay at home. I don’t believe that’s the case. For example my mother stayed at home with me and my twin brother for 16 years taking care of us, in the mix she had my 14 year old little brother as well. As soon as he was in middle school my father took on a big role when he got a job promotion which was to own a couple different car dealerships. My dad was very overwhelmed and looked to my mother for help. My mom had known nothing about the job force, all she knew was to be a stay at home mom, but she dropped everything and became very successful in the car market. I believe this is the mom that all mothers should be because they can do everything when ask to do, nothing discourages them.

Lastly the one thing I did disagree on was when Belkin talked about the high upper class white women were the only one "opting out" of the work force, only for the fact that could afford to. This really put a negative image on women in the work force because all this shows that if you’re a woman and you work than you must be poor. Some argue that this is a wrong approach to addressing women in the work force. Graff stated that this is irresponsible to the way this issue of women in the work force is approached.