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As the similar of last week, the effect of media on gender roles were dealt with in this week. It is important to mention that the headline tells about all of things in the text. Because everything for determination of gender roles is in the media such as televisions, radios, internet... They have great influence especially on females because the fashion is in their interesting areas (however we can see the development in the interest of males in the following fashion). Always same things are emphasized on them: You should look great in some ways which media determines. For instance; keeping their weight in the same kg is done for looking good not for health aspect. Therefore the more you subtract from your body, the more you add to your reputation in media's way.

Gender Stratification Determined by Media

Think about male and female's roles in the community and then compare these results with image in media. As a result of the comparison, it is clearly found that there is a similarity between media and gender roles. For example; in most of members' of heads there is a thought that women are weaker than men in any professions needed capability about using power or mental wisdom and the same beliefs are the subject of a lot of advertisements, movies or television series. According to Rushdie (2010), the media organs are the mirror of community's perception. From this aspect, it could be said that there are the determined roles for men and women characters in the community by the society's individuals. For instance; touching is adopted to women and if we see that a man touches his body, this situation seems to us so effeminate. Hence; we as a man can not touch our bodies in front of any group because of this stupid borders between two main characters. İf the second example is wanted to give from women's aspect, women can not seem muscularly like a man thanks to societies gender beliefs. To sum up; media and gender roles strongly are connected to each other by perception of society.

A week: all about movies

We spent the last week with four amazing movies' presentations by our friends. I mentioned amazing movies because when we watch these movies, probably it is difficult to realize the messages tried to give to audience indirectly. After these progress, it can clearly be said that with a different aspect, these movies hides lots of messages and important point is that they are automatically in our minds in a way but we can not realize these because of wrong perspective. Therefore these presentations were helpful for existing these messages on the surface. I can give some examples from my presentation, in Fight Club, i could not understand communism and capitalism comparison at first watching but while i were going deeply to the movie, the comparison become clear and we tried to explain this material in our presentation. The other important point from fight club is dilemmas between edward and brad's perspectives. It is important to think that these two completely different ideas are in the mind of tylor durden, however these come on surface by two different behavior. This dilemma is clearly captured with analyzing Marla's thought. 

To sum, we learnt that looking movies without any critical thinking process is not helpful and like a blind's perfective thought the world. Therefore critical thinking must be the most important point for the process which includes watching something.