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Gender roles are societal roles that represent a range of behaviors and attitudes that are considered acceptable and desirable for a person based on their gender. The role of women specifically has changed drastically from the 20th century. Women were expected to stay at home and raise their kids without access to education. Their role was to make sure that they were obedient wives and mothers without any identity of their own. Fortunately, we as a society have changed our views of women’s roles in society.
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Social media is an interactive technology that facilitates the creation and sharing of information through virtual communities and pages. Information can be in the form of text, pictures, videos, etc. Popular social media platforms include Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, and Youtube. While the creators of these platforms had genuine intentions of allowing people to connect with each other online, they were unable to predict the negative effects that social media has on the younger generation. “The Social Dilemma” on Netflix does a great job of explaining these effects and how they came to be.
Toxic positivity can be defined as the excessive overgeneralization of a happy, optimistic state across situations. It consists of denial, minimization, and invalidation of the authentic human emotional experience. Just like anything done in excess, when positivity is used to cover up the human experience, it becomes toxic and allows us to fall into a state of denial and repressed emotions. We know that humans are emotional. We get jealous, angry, resentful, and greedy. By pretending that we are always optimistic, we deny the validity of a genuine human experience.
According to past research studies, females are found to be more likely to suffer from depression than males. Surprisingly, this has been a wide held belief for many years that states that women get more depressed than men. When researchers looked at the number of people meeting with therapists for depression, they found that more than 90% of the people were women. They concluded that depression must not affect men as much as women. What they failed to consider was how society plays a huge role in how individuals face mental health issues.
Because September is Suicide Awareness Month, it’s important to discuss characterizations of suicide in today’s media. One show that has a subtle yet meaningful message about the importance of suicide prevention is The Victim’s Game. It is a 2020 Taiwanese crime show that was created by Netflix.
Trigger warning: this article discusses suicide and may be triggering. |
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