Sentences with phrase «of women portrayed»

We learn a lot about the private lives of the women portrayed in the book.

Not exact matches

It is an online community of gamers that are upset that people are speaking out against the objectified way women are portrayed in gaming culture on - screen, and the community has also provided some resistance to the growing number of female gamers.

Unilever, the parent company of dozens of household brands such as Dove, stopped producing ads featuring gender stereotypes in 2016 upon determining that a mere 2 percent of all ads feature intelligent women, 3 percent show women in positions of power and 1 percent portray women with a sense of humor, Fortune reports.

It's the first time in U.S. history that Lady Liberty will be portrayed as a woman of color, and she is beautiful.

Was this particular way of portraying a successful business woman exploitative, as one letter - writer suggested?

While the previous man, portrayed by Goldsmith, was seen reflecting on past experiences from the corners of a dark bar with a bevy of beautiful women on his arms, Legrand will be more of an action hero — whether it's chopping a coconut in half with his bare hand, running down a street clutching a pig or retrieving a soccer ball from inside a well.

Not pure pornographic sex, but the use of sexually attractive models for ads, men and women wearing provocative clothing who sing (or who can't sing, but no one cares), Songs and movies that portray sexual issues without the love that should be the focus, and so on.

When we realize that Marilla had loved John Blythe once upon a time, the series portrays our Marilla as a woman — not the caricature of a cold spinster.

With honor and high regard for men and women alike, it beautifully portrays the wonder of what can happen when we take our places together and walk out the gifts and callings that God has placed within us as His Church.

For what other novel has so successfully portrayed the operation of invisible grace through such lyrical descriptions of the visible actions of sinful men and women?

For instance I hear a lot of egalitarian woman say that it bothers them when women are portrayed as needing to be rescued and protected but I like it when my husband protects me and stands guard in our home.

That's good news for women who want to portray multidimensional characters and right now, Plaza is playing one of the most bonkers on television.

Often, we see women, particularly mothers, portrayed in extremes that are aspirational, but just a few steps outside of reality.

Set in the Holy Land in the first century, it tells the story of a young woman joining a new social movement led by Jesus of Nazareth - and the 43 - year - old portrays the Messiah himself.

For instance, feminists disagree on the interpretation of Swept Away, a Lina Wertmuller film that portrays an upper - class woman who is sexually dominated by her servant and who eventually begins to enjoy the domination.

(besides, a wisdom - seeker as a woman makes plenty of sense seeing that is how wisdom is portrayed as a woman - character in multiple religious literature, including but not limited to the Old Testament...)

All I am offering is that perhaps thinking of these in the light of Joseph being portrayed as inconsiderate in focussing on his feeling in the context of your cartoon with the differing status awarded to women being virgins in that particular culture might be worth considering.

Sometimes it is by a revealing incident, commonly, however, by a telling analysis of what the subject of the story «thought in his heart» — but, by whatever means, the writers succeed in portraying the inmost nature of the men and women who under their hands move across the scene before us.

Since, in the initial act of distancing, the gods were portrayed as idealized men and women, the beauty celebrated by the Greeks was ever the beauty of the human body.

In the 1950s a whole gender of literature known as «The Onitsha market Literature of Nigeria» focused on the economic activities of Ibo women describing them as viragoes, witches and prostitutes or else portraying them as money - loving, adulterous killers.

We tend to think of men as less nurturing than women, thanks in no small part to images in pop culture and the media as portraying men as lovable buffoons who mean well and try to do well but ultimately don't have the common sense to find their own behinds with both hands and a compass... unless, of course, we have an understanding and vastly more mature wife to help us along.

The letters showed a different woman than the symbol of Christian love and unwavering faith that much of the media portrayed her as.

The «power of words» jumped up a few places on the chart and peaked as the fourth most - popular topic (behind voting, marriage, and forgiveness) following the release of the Access Hollywood clip portraying Trump's crude remarks on women last month.

The ideal woman was not a flesh and blood woman, she was portrayed as sweet, passive, docile, compliant, obedient, virginal, and unreal, hardly the qualities that would empower younger females today to break out of their stereotypical expectations.

Though the HHS mandate represents an expansion of government power into the heart of many religious institutions, efforts to resist this expansion were portrayed by HHS Secretary Sebelius as a «war against women,» a label that has stuck and a narrative that the Democratic party during its Convention sought to make a dominant theme of the campaign» it would seem, with considerable success.

When John presents most of the male disciples as passive observers of Jesus» deeds, the women are portrayed as active respondents to Jesus» words and deeds.49 They did virtuous deeds such as hosting dinner, serving at the table, overseeing the feast, and anointing Jesus» feet — all challenging works that no other persons took initiative to do.

Women as strong leaders are portrayed in the Hellenistic Jewish story of Judith and in the rule of Salome Alexandra as queen in Judea (approximately 76 - 67 BCE).

Besides the conditions of society itself, under which family and friends had primary responsibility for the care of the dying and the dead, memento mon were spread throughout culture: in the church's art, in morality plays like Everyman, in drinking songs, in the ordinary artifacts of everyday life (e.g., in Austria a towel hanger portraying a human form split down the middle: one half a beautiful young woman, the other a skeleton) To be sure, the specter of death (and judgment) has been used as a form of social control.

These stories by Luke (who is fairest to women of all the evangelists) portray Mary as the first disciple.

Her article portrayed some of the hundreds of pro-life women planning to attend either in solidarity with fellow feminists or in protest.

Portraying the individual choice to abort in this way, as a step toward freedom for the entire human race, invites women to see the sorrow they feel about their own abortions as part of a false consciousness instilled by a society determined to repress female sexuality.

It also portrays God as killing the firstborn male in every household in Egypt on the night of the Passover; justifies the inst.itution of slavery (except for fellow Jews) and defines women as the property of men.

Church school teachers will note as they begin even a superficial examination of their texts and guides that women and men are nearly always portrayed in stereotypical roles.

They also tell me that people in the Middle Ages thought the earth was flat (everybody knew it was round), that women in the Middle Ages were no better than cattle (they had more freedom than they would enjoy until the twentieth century), that people in the Middle Ages were morose and grim (they were boisterous partiers who loved color), that they were morbidly fascinated with demons (they portrayed demons as ridiculous stooges), and they were oppressed by their kings (most of the kings were weak).

Coming on the heels of the Million Man March, the Million Mom March definitely was an intentional effort to portray * women *, especially moms, as a advocates for political and social change.

Rather than addressing the real reasons women don't breastfeed - reasons that range from histories of sexual abuse and body image issues to economic and physical constraints - the campaign «portrays anything short of exclusive breastfeeding... as a sign of moral corruption and bad character....

Fear of being less - than is a forceful motivator, and these days, women who do not breastfeed are portrayed as lacking - lacking in education and support; lacking in drive; and, in the harshest light, lacking in the most fundamental maternal instinct.

Invariably birth is portrayed as something traumatic to be feared: a serious dramatic emergency room caesarean, a home birth ending in the death of the mother or the screen filled with a screaming woman lying down on a bed struggling, fighting to give birth.

I am tired of women being portrayed as objects to be saluted and admired or shunned and shamed depending on whether they measure up to societies idealistic standards.

Many of these more biased websites and films portray hospital birth like a battle ground for many, if not all, pregnant women but especially those who would like a «natural» birth experience.

Prime - time TV doesn't do a good enough job of portraying situations where work and family obligations collide, says the Partnership for Women and Families.

However, this small number does not portray a true picture of the number of women who would like to avail of a homebirth if a service was available to them.

Kimberly Baker, a mother from Memphis, Tenn., directed and acted in one of the «Birth» productions, portraying a woman who ultimately experienced an orgasmic birth.

While being a solo parent is challenging, this group of women is not the downtrodden cliché portrayed in the July 14th NYT article, «Two classes divided by «I do;» The reporter blasted single moms as an errant demographic, haggard and tired with no time.

Also, and I shouldn't have to go there, but I might as well: Kylie typically portrays herself as a hyper - sexualized woman, at least in most of her Instagram photos.

There's an enduring popular image of divorced women as bitter and jaded, while divorced men are portrayed as all too happy to break free.

In the wake of the prostitution scandal that eventually forced him from office, Spitzer came under fire for (among other things) hypocrisy, with critics noting that he had busted at least two prostitution rings when he was AG and portrayed himself as a champion of women's rights.

«The former Attorney General launched his initial campaign for statewide office after taking down Hiram Monserrate and has repeatedly portrayed himself as a supporter of the #MeToo movement and a champion of women.

Spooks went out of its way to portray its MI5 agents as men and women of impeccable social democrat credentials.

The actions of the Senators we are targeting today have been particularly egregious because they have time and again portrayed themselves as friends and champions of the cause of working men and women.