Super Nanny Comes to the Rescue? (Make-up Blog)

This week I was watching Super Nanny. Super Nanny is a show about parents that need help parenting their rebellious kids. In this particular episode super nanny to teach the mother and father how to punish their kids using the "naughty chair." After showing them how to do it, it so happens that one of the children start acting out and needs punishing. The mom immediately tries to parent the kid and put him in the "naughty chair" but the kid refuses. The mother and child are in a back in forth struggle while the father sits there and does nothing. After about 30 minutes are trying and super nanny stepping in the kid is finally punished. However, super nanny decides to talk to the husband and ask him why he did not step in. The husband replied that the punishing of the children was for his wife to handle because she is a house wife and the children and cleaning are her responsibility. See it is stereotypes like these that are the reason that women still fight stereotypes today. The husband should step up and be a man and parent these children regardless if he is the breadwinner or not. It is not just a women's job to parent children, it takes too. For the rest of the episode super nanny tries to teach the husband that.

Blonds Have More Fun

I was watching family guy the other day, and it was the episode when Meg became pretty and all the guys wanted her. See Meg was your average everyday nobody. She had virtually no friends and no extremely uncool. Even her family members joked on her. However, Meg decides to have a makeover to become a typical blond. She wears skimpy clothes, makeup, and dyes her hair blond. When she does this, she immediately popular and gets all the guys. This is a stereotype. Women should not have to make themselves appear a certain way just to be popular, but unfortunately in today's society it is that way. However, at the end Meg realizes that being herself is good enough. She decides that she no longer cares are popularity and looks. This is a good lesson everyone should learn. That it doesn't matter what is on the outside but what is one the inside is what counts.

Call Everest

Today I was watching television and the Everest commercial comes on and there is a Latino woman that is a single parent, and she tells the audience how she works to jobs and goes to school. Also of how they work with you and your schedule to get the classes you need. The woman in this commercial is playing the now common single mother that works hard to support her kids but does not really have time to go back to school. However, this woman shows that single women everywhere can raise their families, work, and go to school. Also, to never give up and to succeed in whatever they want.

Family Feud

I was watching Family Feud and one topic was dumb blonds that made the right decision. What the topic was implying was famous blonds that were dumb but made the right decisions because they were famous. Among some of the names in the category was Marlyn Monroe, Pamela Anderson, and Reese Witherspoon. I believe that labeling these successful women as dumb blonds is a stereotype. I believe that these women deserve there credit for their success and people should have the dignity not to put their names on that topic, because it is degrading and disrespectful.

Baby Come Back

I was watching a swiffer commercial when the woman is using her swiffer vacuum to clean up a mess on the floor, and then she finds a trail of flowers leading the door outside. Outside she finds her old broom in a hot tub trying to seduce her and when her back, and the music "Baby Come Back" comes on. However, the woman shakes her head in disbelief and walks away. This commercial is very funny. The broom is personified as a man that has lost his girlfriend and trying to when her back my being a romantic because that is what a man would do. The woman plays the gender role of a woman that is tired of the excuses and does not want her man, "the broom," back. What I also noticed about this commercial, is that in all cleaning commercial there are always women cleaning and never a man. This says that a woman's role is cleaning and that if a woman will using the product in a commercial then she will be more likely to buy it. This also says that men do not care about cleaning because they are almost never in cleaning commercials unless they are dirtying up the home.


Link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKZg_qLiIj8

House Bunny

House Bunny is a movie about a playboy bunny, Shelly, gets kicked out of the mansion, and decides to become a house mother to ZETA Sorority. During the movie Shelly plays a typical dumb blond that using her looks to get what she wants. However, even though she is a typical blond she also plays a typical motherly role because she tries her hardest to make sure the girls of ZETA do not loose their house. She does this only way she knows house by making them just like her. But through the process they become united as a team.

Mr. Mom

This week I was watching Spongebob Squarepants on Nickelodeon. On the episode "Rock-A-Bye Bivalve" Spongebob takes on the woman role wife and mother when him and Patrick decide to parent a lost baby oyster. As "mother", Spongebob plays the sterotypical role of washing clothes, cooking breakfast, watching the baby, and cleaning the house. He pratically worked himself to death taking care of the home and the baby, while Patrick, the typical male, goes off to work and comes home expecting dinner on the table and watching television. Patrick does not help with the baby at all. They continue these roles until the baby gets old enough and flies away. Patrick being a typical male wants another baby, and Spongebob looks at him like he is crazy because he did not help at all. I think this is a good example of cartoon characters playing male and female roles.

Link: http://www.nick.com/turbonick/?extvideoid=106815 (the second part of the full episode)