Just a cute little burger!

Burger King showed a commercial with two guys sitting on a park bench eating burgers. One of them had a small burger that was new from Burger King. He was surrounded by women who were all making a fuss over this cute little burger. It was interesting to me how women are being portrayed in this commercial....showing that we can be manipulated by men and restaurants by something as simple as a burger! Men and women are both victim to this, however is we are doing it to each other and having society doing it to us....how can we change it? You would never see a guy making a fuss about a girl with a little burger....why is that? I can think of a one word answer....masculinity. It would not be very masculine for men to do what women are doing in this commercial. I also thought about a Heineken commercial that does the same thought by having the little keg can. Women loved it because it was little and cute. So our society has given men this great tool to use to attract women....anything that is little and cute. I cannot help but continue to think-Why does our society want to continuously help men get women's attention but not the other way around?

Is it them or is it us?

I always wondered who influenced who when it comes to gender stereotyping in movies, tv, etc. Does society influence the writers, directors and actors or is just the opposite? Do they reflect their own opinion of what men and women should be and that, in turn, shows us a predesigned image? The more I thought about it before writing this blog, I decided that it must be both. Our society has it's own stereotypes of men and women that are reinforced by movies and tv. Most of us like movies and such that show men and women out of their society approved roles, however there are those of us who sreongly disagree with it. None the less, those writers and directors are taking a brave step into the slightly lite realm of difference. Movies have changed with our society's beliefs but those classic stereotyped women in the home and men in the office image has not changed much. Tweaked slightly to appease the audience perhaps but not changed. So what is it that we have to do to change the stereotype? Hmmm....interesting food for thought....but a question plagued by many I'm sure.