It was pretty ironic-right after we held our discussion, I walked into my living room and saw my roommate watching TV and this commercial popped up: http://youtu.be/c-zG5U0v3gU. It's amazing how much we see of gender roles put into popular culture. There are references all around us-most of the time we just subliminally pass it by as accepted.
In this commercial, I interpreted it as the opposite of the Oedipus complex. In the commercial, I saw the daughter to be emotionally confused and distraught, causing her to rebel against her father's desires. A huge chain reaction occurs; thus, ending up with a rebellious new generation of his daughter's baby. Of course, this idea is highly stretched. A whole generation will not turn gothic because of irritation of a TV program. However, this idea does catch the audience's attention. Not many see the desire to grow up to live a gothic lifestyle. It simply isn't the norm. And this is because people want to see perfection. They want to see the perfect Stepford family, not kids in dog collars.
I was even watching an episode of How I Met Your Mother (if any of you have Netflix, watch this!: http://movies.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=70218559&trkid=3325854&t=How+I+Met+Your+Mother%3A+Ssn+4%3A+The+Stinsons#MovieId=70143824&EpisodeMovieId=70218558. And if you don't have Netflix, look up Season 4, Episode 14-Possimpible). This episode shows Barney sexualizing women to be incapable of gaining a job. On the other hand, men don't need to do anything to be seen as superior. This idea is pretty similar to Simone de Beauvoir in which men are assumed to be primary and women are secondary...and women don't do anything to change it. In the episode, Robin doesn't oppose Barney when he presents his idea that women must work harder.
Anyway, there are numerous references to Freudian ideals all around society. These are just some examples that I came across throughout the week!
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