Racism in Movies Popular Culture Term Paper

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In her interview, she is obliquely asked to lose weight. Her body, as we will see shortly, is ever the object of external appraisal. To work on-air, she must look a certain way. Her bosses imply that she needs to tighten up. This tightening is contested later by the expansion of pregnancy. When she goes out with her sister to celebrate the new job, they are let into the club before others based on looks. Inside the club, they worry about whether or not men are thinking about "fucking them." They also refer to other women as "skanky bitches." All of this evidences a certain emphasis on looks, an emphasis that transcends civility. A woman's commerce in the move is based on use for others.

It is at the same club that the woman character meets Ben. They meet and eventually return to Alison's sister's place where the have drunken sex. This of course results in a pregnancy. Interestingly, before she finds out she is pregnant, she admits her one-night stand was a mistake. The next morning Ben revolts her. He is a loser to her. They have nothing in common.

We can stop here with the expository elements. For the scope of this paper, we have enough ideas to work with to analyze the misogynistic nature of the film. At the center of the entire movie's gender conceptions is the female body. The female body is the source of commerce for a woman, good or bad.

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When pregnant, a job is at stake. When pregnant, the earlier determinants of beauty and self-esteem are compromised. The pregnancy is seen as the woman's burden. The woman must bear both the trouble of pregnancy and also the shame of no longer being a sexual person.

This contrast finds best expression in Alison's job. She gets paid to be attractive and talk to attractive people. The use of her body is to sell. Her fertility has no role in this job whatsoever except as potential ruin. She hides her pregnancy from her bosses as she fears it will cost her job.

Pregnancy also acts as an analogue to identity in this movie. When Alison gets pregnant, she has life inside her. Until then, it was her exterior that was important. However, once she gets pregnant, she is now a burden to others and herself. Everything becomes her responsibility. She was once an independent woman, whose independence was financed by sex appeal. Now the results of this sex appeal have ironically stripped her of her viability......

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