The three criterias for a feminist communication theory are :
- The Feminist Communication Theory theorizes gender
- The Feminist Communication Theory theorizes communication
- The Feminist Communication Theory theorizes social damage
- Explanatory that speaks of and to experience of a group or individual.
- Political that is also personal because speaking out and debating about feminism is political act.
- Polyvocal that's generated by the different voices and experiences individuals have.
- Transformative is the "intellectual and spiritual growth" that effects people to act upon the lack of difference, voice, and representation of women in communication.
Genderlect discusses about how the differences in men and women and their language. Because of the lack of the "communication," men and women fall into arguments quite often. Men and women say one thing and mean the other. And in terms of language, women are more emotional and expressive, while men are more "right to the point." Women want all the details while men simplifies it into a short statement. for example the clip below of Ross and Rachel (from Friends) explaining thei kiss to their friends.
The video link shows how women are misrepresented as sex objects. I will try to explain your video through Feminist Communication Theory involving Representations as Reality and a critique on it concerning pornography. The reading was kind of confusing but I think it relates. Some feminist theorists have been critical of this critique of representations and sexuality, insisting that images are not reality and that the connection between fantasy and reality is not one of cause and effect. They are talking about porn but most of the pictures you show are slightly pornographic. If you accept the pictures as representations of reality then you believe women are sex objects. But if you view the pictures like picture from my point of view they are fantasy and my reality is not changed from viewing this pictures. Women are always presented in ads as sexy, even in ads not directed towards men. Is there a reason why?
ReplyDeleteI've made this comment before in a class discussion but we all know how sex and violence sells in the market today. And because of that, most ads show some kind of sexual context involving women to be represented as sex objects. And from the seller's point of view, their purpose is to sell their product to the consumer and in order to do so, they need to make the ads attention grabbing which is why I think women are mostly represented to be sexy even in a perfume ad or name brand accessories ad, despite sex doesn't need to be used to sell the product.
ReplyDeleteI've noticed a strong focus of non-verbal communication in this post which i found pretty interesting. For example the two comments before mine focus on visual themes of women in media where as when i looked over this i focused more on what was said. i think that is an interesting take that i may have passed over primarily because it is not the formal communication that i was looking for. But in both respects there is a link in how men and women differ in physical(not necessarily anatomical)or nonverbal and verbal ways. i agree with that fact that these differences are primarily cultural or social as opposed to biological, although i feel that it would be a very interesting, yet difficult experiment to test.
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