{"id":605,"date":"2021-09-08T14:15:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T18:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/?p=605"},"modified":"2021-09-08T14:15:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T18:15:28","slug":"keyword-3-gender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/09\/08\/keyword-3-gender\/","title":{"rendered":"Keyword #3: Gender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Media has been confirming traditional gender norms and perpetuating unrealistic physical, mental, and emotional standards across centuries. Women, as stated in the reading, are trivialized and both celebrated and condemned for their sexuality. Similarly, men are convinced that they should desire a particular body type and demeanor to be considered masculine. Through endless language and imagery marketed towards these culturally accepted identities, the full spectrum of human expression is underrepresented. This concept has preserved gender discrimination even in a society that has become increasingly progressive. In my Leadership Studies course, we learned about Sarah Baartman, a South African black woman who was paraded around Europe by scholars in the 19th century to show off her \u201cover-sized genitalia\u201d. The media referred to her as the \u201cHottentot Venus&#8221; and used to sensationalize black women. It justified the belief that black women are animalistic, hypersexual and worthy of sexual desire, but not marriage. As well as the idea that only pious, white women were acceptable to reproduce with to prevent similar mutations to Baartman. Exaggerated imagery of Baartman appeared across magazines and newspapers to further sensationalize her body. This example demonstrates an extreme tactic against women that has woven its way into examples of discrimination in modern society such as \u201cdesirable\u201d and \u201cundesirable\u201d bodies.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_606\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-606\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-606\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/files\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-08-at-2.12.47-PM-300x138.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/files\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-08-at-2.12.47-PM-300x138.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/files\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-08-at-2.12.47-PM-1024x471.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/files\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-08-at-2.12.47-PM-768x353.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/files\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-08-at-2.12.47-PM-1536x706.png 1536w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/files\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-08-at-2.12.47-PM-2048x942.png 2048w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/files\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-08-at-2.12.47-PM-624x287.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portrait of &#8220;V\u00e9nus hottentote&#8221; Sarah Baartman, illustration from the 1888 &#8220;Le costume historique&#8217; d&#8217;Albert Racinet. (API\/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media has been confirming traditional gender norms and perpetuating unrealistic physical, mental, and emotional standards across centuries. Women, as stated in the reading, are trivialized and both celebrated and condemned for their sexuality. Similarly, men are convinced that they should desire a particular body type and demeanor to be considered masculine. Through endless language and imagery marketed towards these culturally&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/09\/08\/keyword-3-gender\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5402,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5208,104,87686],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism","category-gender","category-keywords"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":607,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}