Photo Essay Project
Nadia Jeanlouis
INtro
Using these five pictures, my aim is to start a discussion about the intricacies of society and gender. Where we see sociology every day and how it can relate to academic theories, concepts, and articles.
Screenshot grabbed from @BriaWyler1
Title: Who gets to eat?
I saw this as I was scrolling through TikTok. Luckily, I was able to capture a screenshot just in time. As you can see, the dad gets to eat his food unbothered by the kids. He’s able to enjoy a hot meal unencumbered by sound and children. Whereas the mother is with the kids wrestling with them to eat their food and trying to take a bite of her own. This reminds of the docuseries and book we read in class.
Screenshot grabbed from @BriaWyler1
Title: Who gets to eat? Pt.2
I would like to turn the attention to the documentary series titled Fairplay to explain this point. In Fair Play, the author talks about how when partners are switching off in child wearing the mother is usually eating food cleaning up the house, and or trying to get other house related chores done whereas the other partner can decompress and focus on hobby/joys. According to Hochschild (1998) talks about how men weaponized incompetence. Not knowing how to do something around the house so they can get out of chores. I believe that men also use this tactic with children by saying “The kids are just better with you" and leaving the other person without a proper break.
Title: Feeling 22
This year was my 22nd birthday. It was in October. 22 is where most junior college students are ending their journey and looking for a job. I want to use this moment to touch up on gendered ageism. Men and women are not seen as equal value as they grow older. An article by Chatman et al. (2022)tested the theory that middle-age women across industries faces a dilemma. When they present masculine traits. I.e. aggression and ambition. It does not give them grace to be seen as feminine and warm when displaying that ambition. As men age, they are seen as wells of wisdom and get to ride the glass elevator to positions of power. Women across the age sprectrum experiece a form of being looked over and undervauled according to Diehl et al. (2023) Being mistaken for sectaries for the younger crowd(Under 40) and being looked over for CFO postion.
Oct 5, 2023 Nadia Jeanlouis
Title: Man's World
My mom works at Dillards in Lynnhaven and I took this picture because I always saw women mannequins with heels, but not men’s. By Crawley, Foley and Shehan (2007) definition, gender is not just man and woman. It’s a multitude of things and some people don’t fit into those boxes because there’s non-binary and transgender women in global society. Men were the ones originally that wore high heels for battle. It was a mix between classism and misogyny. As the years went on, the cultural shifts happen, and women on high heels are now the displays of peak femininity. They get the attention of everyone. High heels are a symbol, depending on the context. For short women, use it to have greater height so that I respect them more. It also used high heels for sexy outfits. They’re not inherently sexual in nature, but can be used sexually, i.e., a trench coat and heels with nothing underneath. I highlighted this specific example b/c even though men wore heels and did things that would be considered feminine in this cultural clime. They still could be the oppressors.
Dec 6, 2023 Nadia Jeanlouis
Title:Feminism Whyte
This is an influencer with over 13.1 K followers on Instagram and over 49.5 K followers on TikTok with 1.1 million likes. Making a house, a home, cooking the meals, and doing the most of the child wearing, while their husbands are at work. Gwen made a post with this sentiment. As you can see, it has over 36.2 K likes, that’s over 36,000 people who agree with Gwen. Both Cooksey (2021b) and KAUR(2022) said it best Millennials and Gen Z are glamorizing 1950s tradwives’ lives and dawning their politics as well. They are calling for all women to embrace feminine traits, and to forsake feminism. This trend of tradwifery involves a select group of people: white, blond hair, blue eyed, skinny, christian women. They believe in submitting to their husbands, and that women should not have the right to vote. And should be grateful for the life of homemaking. My critique of these women is that they run multi-million follower social media accounts where they get paid through partnership with Amazon for other to buy stuff from their amazon store front. They shout from the rooftops, these ideals and idolization of what it means to be in 1950's stay-at-home wife/mother yet still get paid partnerships with companies that fuel their lifestyle. They’re alos cosplaying being "poor". Where they want to go back even before where they milk the cows and are barefoot and pregnant. Let me be frank, women of color have always had to work and white women are only two generations removed from being homemakers, and what that entailed was telling the help what to do. Now they are using their platforms to spread this idelogy when really they are making. Hence, Feminism Whyte.
Raunchy Sex or Demorlization?
So, I am a little embarrassed to admit that this song came up on my shuffled playlist last week. The lyrics are dirty for the ears yet still It’s part of my liked songs on apple music. While I was listening, I realized that this could be a part of my project. Rap and hip-hop originally talked about oppression and struggle. Now that rap is more popular, everyone is getting involved. However, as we look back into the old 1990s-2000’s hip-hop, Black men were the main ones who were doing hip-hop and we can also assume that the women they’re talking about in their videos/ music are black women. In class, we watch the documentary Miss representation where it talks about the negative stereotypes, and how it affects women's self-esteem. However intersectionality comes is that Black girls are more sexualized than any other demographic of women. They lose their childish youth in favor of the world, seeing them as young women. Therefore, it won’t come as a shock to you when you see them in music videos half naked . And their concepts of sex are warped, playing up the “Jezebel” stereotype.
References
Ayalon, L., & Tesch-Römer, C. (2018). Multiple Marginalizations Based on Age: Gendered Ageism and Beyond. In Contemporary Perspectives on Ageism (Vol. 19, International Perspectives on Aging, p. 33). Switzerland: Springer International Publishing AG.
Chatman, J. A., Sharps, D., Mishra, S., Kray, L. J., & North, M. S. (2022). Agentic but not warm: Age-gender interactions and the consequences of stereotype incongruity perceptions for middle-aged professional women. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 173, 104190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2022.104190
Cooksey, M. (2021a, July 29). Why Are Gen Z Girls Attracted to the Tradwife Lifestyle? Political Research Associates. https://politicalresearch.org/2021/07/29/why-are-gen-z-girls-attracted-tradwife-lifestyle
Diehl, Amy, et al. “Women in Leadership Face Ageism at Every Age.” Harvard Business Review, 16 June 2023, hbr.org/2023/06/women-in-leadership-face-ageism-at-every-age#:~:text=Much%20of%20gendered%20ageism%20is.
Emerson, R. (2002). "Where My Girls At?": Negotiating Black Womanhood in Music Videos. Gender & Society, 16(1), 115-135.
Hochschild, A. R. (1989). The second shift. Penguin Books.
Montemurro, B., & Siefken, J. (2012). MILFS and Matrons: Images and Realities of Mothers’ Sexuality. Sexuality & Culture, 16(4), 366-388.
Newsom, J. S., Scully, R. K., Booker, C., Davis, G., & Couric, K. (2012). Miss representation. New York, NY, Virgil Films.
Newsom, J. S. (2022). Fair play. Hello Sunshine Studio
Zurbriggen, E., & Roberts, T. (2013). The sexualization of girls and girlhood causes, consequences, and resistance. New York: Oxford University Press.
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Photo Essay Project
Nadia Jeanlouis
INtro
Using these five pictures, my aim is to start a discussion about the intricacies of society and gender. Where we see sociology every day and how it can relate to academic theories, concepts, and articles.
Screenshot grabbed from @BriaWyler1
Title: Who gets to eat?
I saw this as I was scrolling through TikTok. Luckily, I was able to capture a screenshot just in time. As you can see, the dad gets to eat his food unbothered by the kids. He’s able to enjoy a hot meal unencumbered by sound and children. Whereas the mother is with the kids wrestling with them to eat their food and trying to take a bite of her own. This reminds of the docuseries and book we read in class.
Screenshot grabbed from @BriaWyler1
Title: Who gets to eat? Pt.2
I would like to turn the attention to the documentary series titled Fairplay to explain this point. In Fair Play, the author talks about how when partners are switching off in child wearing the mother is usually eating food cleaning up the house, and or trying to get other house related chores done whereas the other partner can decompress and focus on hobby/joys. According to Hochschild (1998) talks about how men weaponized incompetence. Not knowing how to do something around the house so they can get out of chores. I believe that men also use this tactic with children by saying “The kids are just better with you" and leaving the other person without a proper break.
Title: Feeling 22
This year was my 22nd birthday. It was in October. 22 is where most junior college students are ending their journey and looking for a job. I want to use this moment to touch up on gendered ageism. Men and women are not seen as equal value as they grow older. An article by Chatman et al. (2022)tested the theory that middle-age women across industries faces a dilemma. When they present masculine traits. I.e. aggression and ambition. It does not give them grace to be seen as feminine and warm when displaying that ambition. As men age, they are seen as wells of wisdom and get to ride the glass elevator to positions of power. Women across the age sprectrum experiece a form of being looked over and undervauled according to Diehl et al. (2023) Being mistaken for sectaries for the younger crowd(Under 40) and being looked over for CFO postion.
Oct 5, 2023 Nadia Jeanlouis
Title: Man's World
My mom works at Dillards in Lynnhaven and I took this picture because I always saw women mannequins with heels, but not men’s. By Crawley, Foley and Shehan (2007) definition, gender is not just man and woman. It’s a multitude of things and some people don’t fit into those boxes because there’s non-binary and transgender women in global society. Men were the ones originally that wore high heels for battle. It was a mix between classism and misogyny. As the years went on, the cultural shifts happen, and women on high heels are now the displays of peak femininity. They get the attention of everyone. High heels are a symbol, depending on the context. For short women, use it to have greater height so that I respect them more. It also used high heels for sexy outfits. They’re not inherently sexual in nature, but can be used sexually, i.e., a trench coat and heels with nothing underneath. I highlighted this specific example b/c even though men wore heels and did things that would be considered feminine in this cultural clime. They still could be the oppressors.
Dec 6, 2023 Nadia Jeanlouis
Title:Feminism Whyte
This is an influencer with over 13.1 K followers on Instagram and over 49.5 K followers on TikTok with 1.1 million likes. Making a house, a home, cooking the meals, and doing the most of the child wearing, while their husbands are at work. Gwen made a post with this sentiment. As you can see, it has over 36.2 K likes, that’s over 36,000 people who agree with Gwen. Both Cooksey (2021b) and KAUR(2022) said it best Millennials and Gen Z are glamorizing 1950s tradwives’ lives and dawning their politics as well. They are calling for all women to embrace feminine traits, and to forsake feminism. This trend of tradwifery involves a select group of people: white, blond hair, blue eyed, skinny, christian women. They believe in submitting to their husbands, and that women should not have the right to vote. And should be grateful for the life of homemaking. My critique of these women is that they run multi-million follower social media accounts where they get paid through partnership with Amazon for other to buy stuff from their amazon store front. They shout from the rooftops, these ideals and idolization of what it means to be in 1950's stay-at-home wife/mother yet still get paid partnerships with companies that fuel their lifestyle. They’re alos cosplaying being "poor". Where they want to go back even before where they milk the cows and are barefoot and pregnant. Let me be frank, women of color have always had to work and white women are only two generations removed from being homemakers, and what that entailed was telling the help what to do. Now they are using their platforms to spread this idelogy when really they are making. Hence, Feminism Whyte.
Raunchy Sex or Demorlization?
So, I am a little embarrassed to admit that this song came up on my shuffled playlist last week. The lyrics are dirty for the ears yet still It’s part of my liked songs on apple music. While I was listening, I realized that this could be a part of my project. Rap and hip-hop originally talked about oppression and struggle. Now that rap is more popular, everyone is getting involved. However, as we look back into the old 1990s-2000’s hip-hop, Black men were the main ones who were doing hip-hop and we can also assume that the women they’re talking about in their videos/ music are black women. In class, we watch the documentary Miss representation where it talks about the negative stereotypes, and how it affects women's self-esteem. However intersectionality comes is that Black girls are more sexualized than any other demographic of women. They lose their childish youth in favor of the world, seeing them as young women. Therefore, it won’t come as a shock to you when you see them in music videos half naked . And their concepts of sex are warped, playing up the “Jezebel” stereotype.
References
Ayalon, L., & Tesch-Römer, C. (2018). Multiple Marginalizations Based on Age: Gendered Ageism and Beyond. In Contemporary Perspectives on Ageism (Vol. 19, International Perspectives on Aging, p. 33). Switzerland: Springer International Publishing AG.
Chatman, J. A., Sharps, D., Mishra, S., Kray, L. J., & North, M. S. (2022). Agentic but not warm: Age-gender interactions and the consequences of stereotype incongruity perceptions for middle-aged professional women. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 173, 104190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2022.104190
Cooksey, M. (2021a, July 29). Why Are Gen Z Girls Attracted to the Tradwife Lifestyle? Political Research Associates. https://politicalresearch.org/2021/07/29/why-are-gen-z-girls-attracted-tradwife-lifestyle
Diehl, Amy, et al. “Women in Leadership Face Ageism at Every Age.” Harvard Business Review, 16 June 2023, hbr.org/2023/06/women-in-leadership-face-ageism-at-every-age#:~:text=Much%20of%20gendered%20ageism%20is.
Emerson, R. (2002). "Where My Girls At?": Negotiating Black Womanhood in Music Videos. Gender & Society, 16(1), 115-135.
Hochschild, A. R. (1989). The second shift. Penguin Books.
Montemurro, B., & Siefken, J. (2012). MILFS and Matrons: Images and Realities of Mothers’ Sexuality. Sexuality & Culture, 16(4), 366-388.
Newsom, J. S., Scully, R. K., Booker, C., Davis, G., & Couric, K. (2012). Miss representation. New York, NY, Virgil Films.
Newsom, J. S. (2022). Fair play. Hello Sunshine Studio
Zurbriggen, E., & Roberts, T. (2013). The sexualization of girls and girlhood causes, consequences, and resistance. New York: Oxford University Press.