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Joshua Abraham

Professor Mike Delnero

COMM 355 – X02

9 December 2019

Blog Assignment

Masculinity something that has shaped the male gender. It is said to make a man a “man”. What is masculinity? Masculinity is the qualities and attributes regarded as characteristics of men (Dictionary.com). The standards and main center ideas of masculinity and what is considered “manly” vary throughout history and different culture. Even though being masculine is usually found in men, women can also be masculine and display traits and behavior of the such. There are certain traits that are viewed as masculine. Those traits are assertiveness, independence, courage, leadership, toughness, and strength. Masculinity is viewed as socially constructed. It usually intertwines with race, class, sexuality, and other parts of the masculine identity (Wiki.UBC.com). Masculinity is something can be found in film and television. These masculine roles are usually to males and they play the main characters and have dominant roles. In films there are variations of masculinity. There’s masculinity that is toxic and there is masculinity that is healthy for the most part. It is said that masculine roles reinforce stereotypes male stereotypes. Masculine types of characters in a film or television show are the superhero, jock, and the “lone wolf”.

A good example of the jock type character with a masculine role would be Steven Stifler from the movie American Pie. His character displays typical hypermasculine behavior. Stifler is a lacrosse player jock who is very egotistical, aggressive, obnoxious, and is very misogynistic. He usually makes fun of the of the teenagers for not having sex with other girls and still being virgins.

Another jock type character that is shown to be masculine AC Slater in Saved by the Bell. He’s the captain of the wrestling team and the quarter back of the football team. He’s also has a built frame to him as well. In the show he has made some sexist comments and his love interest has referred to him as a “pig”. Slater is still a machoman man, but unlike Stifler, Slater is a very nice person and doesn’t realize what he says until his girlfriend calls him out on it.

Masculinity in shown in another character on a television show was Even Stevens. One of the main characters Donnie Stevens is a jock and has a very masculine character on the show. He is very self-absorbed but is a good person. His built frame causes women to chase after him. And he is extremely athletic and popular.

Another type of masculine character would be a “lone-wolf” character. The lone-wolf character (predominately male) is when a person is independent, has a stand-offish demeanor and usually isolates themselves from the group. They are usually like this when something traumatic has happened in their life. We see a lot of this masculine trait in male characters in television shows and movies.

Batman would be a perfect example of a person who portrays the lone-wolf persona. He witnessed his parents be murdered right in front of him as a child. Both in the shows and movies, he is shown to live by himself and when he isn’t fighting with his side-kick Robin, he usually works alone. Even when is around the other Justice League superheroes, he is usually alone and tends to keep a lot of secrets from them.

Another ‘lone-wolf” type character would be Harry Wells in the CW’s The Flash. As much of a nerd and genius he is, he has some masculine characteristics as lone-wolf type. When he first arrives to Earth-1, he very stand-offish. Harry is like this because of the pain he got from losing his wife and for the fact that a villain named “Zoom”, captured his daughter. He goes straight to the lab and starts working on inventions and doesn’t say anything or interacts with anyone on Team Flash until they find out his secret. He usually referred to by his colleague Cisco Ramon as a “dick”.

The CW’s show, All American, the main protagonist is Spencer James. He becomes like his because his father abandons him and his brother as a child. He’s very reluctant in transferring schools and keeps to himself. Spencer James is the type when he’s going through something, he usually uses football as a scapegoat and tries to push through instead of confronting his feelings. It takes him a while to open himself up to everyone else, but he eventually does. When he’s upset, he tends to distance himself even more than he usually does.

If you watch movies and television shows, you would know that superheroes are known for being masculine in movies. They are built and have a huge manly persona to them. In the Marvel movies, a masculine superhero would be Captain America. Captain American is a natural leader who can lead other men into war. He has that stereotypical built frame that most heroes have in movies or television shows.

Another example of a masculine superhero would be Optimus Prime. Even though Optimus Prime isn’t a human, In the Transformer’s television series and films, he’s is still male, and he still displays masculine traits as a superhero. He like Captain America is a leader. He’s also a trucker and truckers are very manly regardless what gender the trucker is.

Wolverine is another superhero hero who exhibits masculine mannerisms. In the Marvel films, Wolverine is a lumberjack and lumberjacks are perceived to be manly. He’s known for being violent, drinking booze, and him having a ripped and very hairy body. And he is also very good with the ladies.

In the DC show’s like Justice League and Krypton, Lobo personifies masculinity. He is a male alien who rides in a hover chopper motorcycle while smoking cigars and taking candy from babies. He has a very violent nature to him. Lobo murdered his whole race just to prove how masculine and how badass he is. He has tough guy attitude and he’s lady’s man also. He can look at a woman and already have them ovulating.

Here we just saw masculinity is shown in movies and television shows in male characters but there are times when male characters aren’t masculine at all. A male character that doesn’t display masculine would be CW’s The Flash Barry Allen. He is the main protagonist in the show. He is very nerdy and even though he’s a superhero, he shows a lot of emotion and there are many scenes of him crying. He also not afraid to talk about his feelings. Him crying is as him being soft and weak.

Cory Matthews would also be a character that would consider “not-so masculine”. In the television series Boy Meets World, Cory’s character is picked on by bullies. He is usually seen to be the romantic type and doesn’t wasn’t a player with the ladies like his best friend Shawn.

In the television series’ Suite Life of Zack and Cody/Suite Life on Deck, one the main protagonist which is Cody Martin. Unlike his twin brother Zack, Cody was shown to be nerdy, mature, well groomed, and very sensitive. He was often referred to as a wimp/baby because he still sleeps with his blankie, and he was not a lady’s man.

Throughout history, masculinity in films is shown in different forms. You have the jock, superhero, and lone wolf. These types of characters where stereotypically portrayed as the what in meant for male characters to be masculine in movies. You also had male characters who aren’t your typical masculine and manly characters show more emotion and vulnerability. I personally feel like male characters in television series and films show both because masculinity is makes you a man but showing some vulnerability gives your male character more a side that you rarely get to see in male characters and adding more dept to them.

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Thoughts on Riverdale Seasons 1-3

Preface: I picked up the first two seasons on DVD in my local library, otherwise I never would have watched a single second of this show. But I kept seeing the DVDs and thought, why the hell not? (That was the main reason I watched Game of Thrones, my library had the DVDs and I’m a sucker for the special features and making offs.)

I’ve never read a comic book in my life and had absolutely no idea who these characters were. I was only marginally aware that something like “Archie and Veronica” and “Betty and Veronica” exist, but what kind of relationship they had with each other or what characters they were supposed to be … no idea.

The only comic stuff I was somewhat aware of are superheroes (I watched a lot of Marvel movies and TV shows and really enjoy listening to the podcast Cinematic Universe), so I started off believing there would be characters with superpowers here as well. It took me about three episodes to really catch on that there would probably be no one suddenly developing any superpowers. That was kinda disappointing, to be honest. Then I got on bord that this would be something noir like Veronica Mars and started enjoying what I was seeing. And then I started watching the second season and … what?

Also, I spend a lot of time doing arts and crafts for Christmas while I was watching, so I wasn’t always paying super close attention, but I didn’t feel like that was such a great loss, especially during the many many many scenes between Archie and Hiram that I didn’t care about in the slightest.

Parents:

· In season 1, I liked that the parents play a bigger role in the lives of their children, that just seems more realistic than whatever went on in One Tree Hill and the Vampire Diaries for example, where most parents got killed off after a while (though it seems like Riverdale is heading in a similar direction). That’s what I liked in The O.C., the parents were important. Like it usually is in the life of teenaged High School students.

· I started of liking Fred and emphasizing with Hermione, having no clue about the Blossoms, despising Alice and thinking F.P. was super shady. Plus Sherriff Keller seemed like a good Dad but not very good Sherriff, but how could he be when it’s the children’s task to solve the cases?

· One thing I was aware of before the show started was that Luke Perry died somewhere in the middle of the show, so I spent a lot of season 3 thinking he was already dead, because HE JUST DIDN’T SHOW UP, and was surprised more than once that he was still alive when he popped up in an episode.

· After season 3 I don’t even know what to say anymore. WTF? More than one parent is a serial killer, a lot more are willing to commit murder or at least serious crimes left and right, the former Sherriff didn’t seem to care that his son got involved with a cult that TOOK HIS KIDNEY (wouldn’t Kevin need parental consent to join something like that?), Mayor McCoy just disappeared, they completely turned F.P. around and I’m not sure what they want to do with Alice.

· After three seasons, the only parents I care about in the slightest are F.P. and Alice because you at least understand some of their actions. In the first season you got a lot of time with Hermione, one on one, so you could understand her actions and feelings, and she and Fred were kind of cute. But in the second season they shot Fred and any storyline he had, Hermione became the mob boss wife fully on board with every crime possible, and Hiram swallowed up anything that was interesting about her. Alice at least had some nuances and was not just the abusive and controlling mother she was in season 1. However, the whole cult thing … I just don’t know what to say. But I haven’t watched season 4 yet, so I’m at least excited to see what they’ll do with Alice. Hal … I don’t even know what to say, I just don’t think the actor can really pull of menacing, so all these Hannibal-esque scenes in season 3 seemed just ridiculous to me.

· It seems extremely weird to me that all the parents are supposed to be the same age, but the episode where the young actors played their parents was one of the most enjoyable ones so I’m willing enough to suspend my disbelief.

· I don’t care about Hiram. At all. The actor looks great and has a very pleasing voice, but I don’t care about his storylines, his relationships and I’m glad I’m mostly doing other stuff during his scenes so I don’t have to pay too close attention to him. Also I’m mad that he destroyed any interest I had in Hermione, because I enjoyed the actress a lot in the one episode of Charmed she was in.

Kids:

· I started the first episode already annoyed by the concept of Betty pining for Archie who falls in love at first sight with Veronica. I watched enough shows with love triangles to despise the very concept. Especially since I know how it turns out most of the time, the pining girl will always and forever be the second choice of the guy, even if they end up together later on. That was the first time I considered to stop watching, but since I took home both the first and the second season from the library I wanted to give it a little more time.

· The second time I considered to stop watching was when it was revealed that Archie had an affair with the music teacher. That’s just not a trope I enjoy in any way, shape or form. And I was annoyed that Betty stared with heart eyes at Archie while he was a little torn between his immediate attraction to Veronica and his supposed love for the music teacher. But I got curious enough how it would turn out so I kept watching.

· I was so relieved that they resolved Archie and Betty this early on and didn’t throw Veronica in the mix immediately. I really liked Betty and I’m glad that they gave her another storyline far far away from Archie.

· I also enjoyed Veronica a lot and found her storyline interesting enough as the new girl wanting to start over as a better person and friend and coming to terms with her criminal father. Just, how the hell can they afford their lifestyle while Hermione was working as a waitress? (At this point I was still a little concerned with logic in that show, now I know that’s just not something worth thinking about.)

· I was immensely surprised that little Ben from Friends looked like this grown up (I never watched Disney Channel shows here in Germany and had no idea how he looked older) and that he could actually act. (I always thought he was terrible as Ben, but that could also be the bad dubbing in German, who knows. I just know I never enjoyed episodes with Ben, so at the same time I was torn between thinking Ross was a bad father and glad that his son wasn’t more on screen.) But I only started to pay attention to Jughead once he got put in the same storyline as Betty, because I liked her and that the murder solving was the only thing I found really interesting. Though I really liked that he was the voice of reason with the music teacher affair before Betty took it upon herself to “save” Archie.

· I enjoy the four main characters together but I’m very disappointed that they have so few scenes together. The episode where they went to the lodge in the woods was great because it was just those four. (That was one of the things I really liked about The O.C., the four main teenagers spent a lot of time together.) I really liked Archie and Jughead together and that was so reduced in later seasons, not to mention Betty and Veronica who are supposedly BFFs and had maybe ten scenes in season 3 together? I’d guess that Betty spent more time with every other female character other than Veronica. At this point I’d buy Betty and Cheryl as BFFs more. What I also would like is exploration of Jughead and Veronica’s relationship, but I doubt that’s going to happen.

· I’m especially disappointed what they did with every other teenaged character. I hate that they never show Kevin’s perspective and mostly use him for shock value in Betty’s storylines. (Also, once again, where the hell was his father, THE FORMER SHERRIFF, during the cult storyline? I get that Cheryl’s and Toni’s families probably don’t give a shit, but him?!?!) Also, looking at the cover pictures on the DVD case I was continuously surprised that they deemed Josie important enough to picture her. She constantly felt like such an afterthought in every storyline she was put in. Same with Reggie who was important in the beginning of season 3 only to disappear halfway through and be resurrected as a minimal obstacle for Veronica and Archie.

· Also, what happened to the Pussycats? In the first season, they had something to do, in the second they at least sang once or twice but then they just disappeared? I wouldn’t actually have noticed were it not for the comic con panel they put on the season 2 DVD extras where all the actresses were there and I was confused why, because I couldn’t think of a single storyline they were involved in after beating the guy up who tried to rape Cheryl. The way they were talking on the panel you’d assume that they had massive screentime and great storylines and none of that happened.

· That brings me to the next point I’m bothered about, they scrapped almost everything that was typically High School after the first season. Next to nothing with the cheerleaders, no football, the newspaper office is only treated as a backdrop and no one does anything with the newspaper anymore. Instead you have vigilantes, owning businesses and having a seventeen-year-old as the leader of a large gang (???). The only thing that is at least slightly consistent is Betty and Jughead trying to solve murders and other criminal stuff in between everything else; with the occasional musical thrown in for the cast to show off their voices, since they dropped music more or less in every other context.

· Also, I have no idea what to make of the Serpents. First they were these criminals you had to be wary off, then Jughead joined them and you were supposed to feel better about them because there were other worse gangs, then these old dudes accept a teenager as their leader (that seemed the most unrealistic to me) and now they are helping the Sherriff’s office? Just … what?

· I don’t even want to get into what they did with Archie. I just know I preferred it when he struggled between his music and football instead of becoming a vigilante, temporarily joining the mafia, getting sent to prison and starting up boxing in a gym he owned. Jesus Christ, just let him play guitar.

· Additionally, every storyline in season 3 felt insane. The role playing game, the cult, the criminal stuff in between … Though I did find it funny that every person Betty recruited to help her with the Farm ended up in the Farm. I guess that sometimes is how it works with cults.

· Also, what was that scene with Betty, Jughead and their FBI brother Charles in the season 3 finale? First, I doubt that it was planned that Alice was undercover at the Farm, based on the way she threw all her money out (though maybe she’ll get it back, who knows), and then the reveal … what kind of awkward writing was that? “Betty, I’m your brother.” “Yes, Jughead, we are brothers, too.” I don’t think I have seen many scenes that were more awkward, and I watched The Secret Life of the American Teenager years ago.

· I think at the end I only stuck around because I liked some of the characters’ relationships enough to see how it will turn out. I was surprised that I enjoyed Betty and Jughead so much, even though I don’t really care about Archie and Veronica at all. (They have good chemistry, but … eh.) Plus, WTF was the writing of the season 3 finale, when Archie’s mom didn’t care at all that Archie was given ownership of A WHOLE GYM?!?! “Hmm, that’s nice, but I’m more interested where you two stand romantically.”

· It took me a while to warm to Betty and Jughead as well because I expected her to be more hung up on Archie. It took me until the last scene of episode 13 to really get on board with those two, but that’s a common occurrence with me. I can watch a show and enjoy a couple pretty lowkey and then there is one scene with great chemistry and suddenly I have to intensely rewatch every scene they ever had together. (Same thing happened with Barney and Robin (HIMYM) when they suddenly kissed in a cab in season 7, Jeremy and Anna of the Vampire Diaries when they were in bed together, the first kiss of Tyler and Caroline from the same show…) But since none of those couples had their happily ever after and some where more traumatic than others (I will never be over the finale of HIMYM, I’m still getting enraged just thinking about it), I’m really weary of how it will turn out. They certainly dragged them out long enough to make it seem like Veronica/Archie, Betty/Jughead will be endgame, but who knows what kind of drama they will throw to them to make it “interesting”. Though, honestly, I enjoy Betty and Jughead as a stable couple that gets all their drama through crime solving. Just let them have their ten near-death experiences a season and let them be happy together otherwise.

· I don’t have any particular feelings toward Cheryl and Toni. They are cute and I’m glad that they have at least some scenes that are about them without being pushed aside as much as Kevin. In parts I was just very annoyed how they interrupted scenes with Cheryl’s dramatic entrances because she felt like such an enormous afterthought, like “Oh, crap, we wanted to do something with Cheryl but we already wrote the scene. Whatever, just put her in there somewhere to disrupt the conversation between the four and let it go on exactly as written once she disappears again.”

· And once again, the plots … just … whatever. I care enough about the characters and their relationships to keep watching, but the plots … ugh. I mainly wish they’d be more High School-y and less criminal and business focused. But I highly doubt that’s a realistic expectation, so, you know, just enjoy the kissing scenes and sometimes friendship scenes in between all the criming and crime solving and fighting. It’s still interesting enough in the background while doing other stuff.

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