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A 5 page contention that numerous assumptions are often in play when we consider the issues between male and female. Various groups, in fact, try to propagate their own beliefs in regard to the relationship between the sexes when, in reality, there is no one commonalty. This is particularly true in regard to opinions regarding the appropriateness of media depictions of various degrees of sexual intimacy. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Numerous assumptions are often in play when we consider the issues between male and female. Various groups, in fact, try to propagate their own beliefs
in regard to the relationship between the sexes when, in reality, there is no one commonalty. Ballaster et. al. (1996) observes, for example, that while womens magazines constantly emphasize
the opposition which sometimes exists between the genders, the "difficulty, frustration, and failure" which characterizes the relationship between sexes that is always tumultuous, womens magazines seldom devote room to exploring
solutions to those problems. Even more problematic, however, is the fact that womens magazines typically assume that all women have the same problems with the opposite sex as those
purported by the producers of the magazines (Ballaster et. al., 1996). The emphasis, it seems, is to make producers and readers one group (Ballaster et. al., 1996). The
emphasis is to idealize the readership, to make them: "middle class, white, and heterosexual" yet
"This inclusivicity of address effectively marginalises or makes deviant black, working class or lesbian women" (Ballaster et. al., 1996).
Womens magazines are not the only entity attempting to homogenize the male/female experience, however. Numerous other groups make the same assumptions and demands.
Despite this insistence on homogeneity, there remains no clearly delineated pattern of behavior and expectation that is consistent across all individuals of each gender. Feminists themselves, in fact,
stand divided because of differences in the way the regard their relationship with the opposite sex. This is not a recent division. In 1969 van Zoonen noted that:
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