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men are frequently represented in the media by characters such as Homer Simpson, a chauvinistic, ignorant man who is depicted as very lazy and obsessed with food; his son Bart, often cruel to his sister, is discourteous and ill behaved. He alternative is often portrayed as Ken, an idealized, de-sexualized male with only the acquisition of material items his goal, fast cars and fashion his only interests. Even television shows like Sex and the City imply that men are just there for the sexual gratification of women. It portrays men as tactless, stupid beings that are only there for female entertainment and pleasure. These negative portrayals are as damaging to both genders as the comparative attitudes to women, rooted as they are in gender objectification and the denial of identity. Alternatively, could we welcome this shake-up of traditional gender images? Could it not be that multiplicities of roles are now establishing themselves in modern society?

Toys such as Action Man often stereotype men in aggressive roles, and this convention has been questioned in the work of Susan Hiller, who explores social conditioning and attitudes to childhood in her work Punch and Judy.

Punch and Judy looks closely at the brutality of slapstick comedy. First filming segments of live Punch and Judy shows the artist then transposed these images on the walls of a square room inviting the viewer to stand in the room with the puppets' images looming over them, the puppets acting out violently as so often seen in their performances. Hiller examines how such stereotypical role-play in toys reinforces the assumptions placed on boys and men and how they should act in society.

Where feminism fought against such patriarchal, capitalist belief systems, post-feminism seems to be buying right into the 'raunch culture' that Kliszynski highlights.

I would define 'Raunch culture' as the whole juvenile, 'laddish' culture that includes the lads' magazines as well as strip clubs, prostitution and the celebration of prostitution, highly sexualized adverts and a general attitude that what's best about female empowerment is that more men get to see more women naked. Berger referred to it as 'the male gaze', Kliszynski as 'raunch culture', but I believe they are very similar, and it seems to be embraced by many young women, who accept whole-heartedly the entire condescending nonsense of 'girl power'. According to Wollstonecraft, men have widened what should be merely a biological gap of physical differences into a sociological gap: 'But not content with this natural pre-eminence, men endeavour to sink us still lower, merely to render us alluring objects for the moment.' Women, it follows, cannot help but be 'intoxicated by the adoration which men, under the influence of their senses, pay them.'

Has Barbie, in representing the most materialistic aspects of modern day culture, encouraging a stereotypical image of womanhood, become a remorseless goddess of modern society? A doll without any social conscience (or conscious), reliant solely on material belongings to bring her happiness, worshipped by millions, representative of a culture that objectifies and vilifies women, no aspect of her suggests any form of spirituality, or higher morality.

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