
Blog 3: Dependence and expressiveness

Vanier Student Blog, Winter 2020




The male that I chose to write about in this blog post is Christopher Gardner Jr., played by Jaden Smith in the movie “The Pursuit of Happyness”. He plays the son of the main character, Chris Gardner, played by his real life father Will Smith. In the movie, he plays someone who is expressive and dependent, therefore a counter-example for number 3 “inexpressiveness and independent”.
He is someone who is expressive. He isn’t sure what is happening at first when he and his father gets evicted from their home and isn’t afraid to express his concern of what is happening. Throughout the movie, we can see him displaying emotions time and time again, whereas his father is trying to hide his best to hide his emotions, especially from his son. He is sad when they had to find some weird places to live in, like in a bathroom.
He is dependent, because as a child, he has to rely on his parents to raise and care for him. Most of the things that were happening to his father reflected on him as well, like when his father got evicted, he had to follow his dad. He depended on his father to sell his machines for a living.

John Rambo (played by Sylvester Stallone) is a Vietnam War veteran soldier and a Special Forces Green Beret. He is a war hero with a Congressional Medal of Honor. He was recruited to be in the Baker Team (elite group), who were in Vietnam for three years. During his training, he was taught to kill and stay alive in the line of duty. Throughout the book/movie, Rambo is struggling to adjust to regular life, he can;t hold a job, he “rejection” social relationships, and is haunted by the memories of the war.
I think Rambo fits the description of an Anti-feminine person because, as a soldier, there is no room for female traits. You have to be strong, cold and be ready to die. As I said, Rambo struggles with social relationships, which is considered a “feminine quality”. Rambo is one of the most high ranked soldiers, if not the highest ranked soldier, the US army has (in the book of course), and has the respect of colonel Trautmen for sure (not sure about the Baker Team, because they are all dead). I don’t think Rambo cared much about his achievements, because he really wants to live like a normal person in society. Furthermore, Rambo is a man of very few words, but he makes up for it with his actions, for example, bringing a whole war against a whole police task-force. As for independence, Rambo is has been trained to survive in the wild all on his own. Finally, Rambo has an extremely short temper, he could lose his cool over anything that reminds him of what happened in Vietnam. I don’t I would qualify Rambo as an adventuress person because most of the place that he went was forced upon him.

Vin Diesel, as a movie character of tons of action films, represents the tough guy who turns out to save the city, town, or world. Usually, he has gone through difficult experiences that make him agressive and get his porpuse at any price, even if it includes killing people or destroying a whole city.

The person I chose to be an example for adventurousness and aggressiveness is Lucious Lyon played by Terrence Howard in the show Empire. Lucious Lyon, who built a successful entertainment company by hustling drugs with ex-wife Cookie. On his come up and during his success Lucious show to be very aggressive and will threat, warn or kill anyone that becomes a hazard or that will jeopardize his company. And the more he did that the more powerful he felt. In section from the text it states βmasculinity is a characterized by a willingness to take (physical) risk and become more violent if necessary.β Thatβs a perfect description of Lucious. He is also an example to his sons, because them to are aggressive and handle their situation with violence. Another thing that was mentioned in the text βBeing dependent, passive and having low power(or status) have also topically been associated with femininityβ. With that being said, I also believe that was one of the reason Lucious was so aggressive and handle things the way he did. So he can always be called βThe Manβ.

Harry Styles is a British singer, songwriter and actor. He became famous as a singer when he first participated in the X-Factor in 2010.
Harry Styles is a good example of someone who promotes feminist ideas. In fact he said “It’s pretty simple. I think that the ideals of feminism are pretty straightforward”. Another good example of his feminist side would be his fashion/style. At the Met Gala he wore a revealing outfit that flaunted his nipples. Moreover, he wore earrings and painted his nails in different colors which shows that he is in opposition to society’s definition of “masculinity”, because these are considered homosexual or feminine behaviors by today’s society. Harry did all this in order to make a statement to people who are anti-feminist and to oppose to their anti-feminist ideals.
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Walter Beckett is a boy who wanted to change the world by fighting without hurting anyone. So, in a young age he became an inventor and made gadgets that can’t a single soul. His gadgets is effective but no one approved it because of how silly they are and for that he’s was bullied and push away.
Lance Sterling is the hero, the Savior, and the man who protect the people in need but violence is the only answer against the enemy. If you don’t use violence to the enemy then the enemy will hit harder.
To classify, Walter is a complete different person than Lance. Lance is popular, violent, an athlete and cocky. Walter is the complete opposite. And still they can save the world with non violents.

Donald J Trump is a perfect example of anti-femininity. He continuously is known to over sexualize women and chalk them up to the mindless caricatures of makeup and boobs that the toxic masculine thought process has conditioned us to believe. Famously saying “Just grab em by the pussy” completely ignoring the concept of consent and barley acknowledging the humanity in women. He seems to believe he can get whatever he wants out of women because of his wealth and status. Exampled by also referring to Unfortunately this has also lead to him getting away with so many very inappropriate comments and actions, and as the president of the United States this has had disastrous effects on the country.
The US president has made his homophobic veil point very clear in his actions. He has removed LGBTQIA+ anti-discrimination and protection laws/bills for students and workers. He also removed mention of their rights from the white house government website. Last but not least Donald Trump tried to ban transgender people from serving in the military, stating that the extra medical care they would need would be too expensive. However, after the amount was calculated it was found out that the US military spends more than double the amount needed to properly accommodate transgender soldiers, on viagra. This culture and the toxically masculine viewpoint held by Trump doesn’t value what we’ve feminized. Homosexuality, especially in men is hyper feminized and often people who hold a toxic masculine thought process will feel the need to distance themselves from people who are LGBT. But Donald Trump is on a whole other level and has been able to take out his feelings on so many innocent people.
Trump has been able to take his anti-femininity out on women directly as well. He supported Alabama’s abortion ban. This ban did not allow anyone with a female reproductive system to get an abortion under any circumstances, including rape, incest and even if someone not identifying as a girl decides he/they cannot psychologically go through a pregnancy.
Donald Trump consistently expressed anti femininity ideas and thought processes throughout his life and not only in the media.