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Jacqueline Tavera
ENG 101-0800

When we think about the ideal kind of guy the physical part seems to never skip our minds, it’s as if we automatically connect being physically fit and being in shape a masculine thing for males to do but is being on the heavier side less masculine for a male. Well statistically speaking there are over 20 different kinds of male fitness magazines in the US, but in “Men’s Fitness” which is the magazine I pick for my research over all in the year 2010 I found a few issues that highlighted the essences of being physically fit and how otherwise is would just be lame.
In the issues for October 2010 just the cover read “Ripped & Stronger, 88 Ways to Lose Fat, Get Lean, Our Boxing Workout Will Change Your Body in 30Day.” When you go to the article and read it just down talks anything other than being “ripped” as bad. Any of the articles of which read from the cover were only about comparing body types and giving you tips on how to work on yourself to become more ideal to the idea that they are trying to project out as masculine, the selection of wording the use targeted the reader like ”Get Lean” or “Change”.
When you take a look at the issues for November 2010 in big bold black letters it reads “Burn Body Fat Fast” goes on by saying “Build A Hardcore NFL Body” and on the opposite side it reads “Sons of Anarchy’s Charlie Hunnam, his rugged body-weight work out will get you ripped”. When I read the articles I move than convinced that there is no other way I could survive in the world if I were a male and was not ripped like Charlie Hunnam or like any of the NFL players that are in top physical shape.
Another eye catching issues I found was the new December issues 2010, it has an article on Mike also known as “The Situation” from Jersey Shore, the title is “How to drink and get abs like Mike”. In it he gives the 8 fit rules he live by a few of them where just basics but when I got to rule number seven which states, “Make working out your No.1 commitment, because it builds the confidence and discipline you need to succeed in every domain of your life.” In every one of the quotes I found a physically fit male is the more ideal kind of guy Men’s Fitness projects as the right kind of masculinity any guy what to become. And if there are and opposing view to that idea they target the reader by using key words that down talk any potential thought the reader might have as to why he is not fit and how that plays out in his life to the reason on why he is the way he is.
Over all the idea of what is the right type or kind of male to be just to seem masculine in obscene for the reason that by targeting in an isolated way human defects seem to be the only way to outcast the male reader to feed into the stereotypical persona of how the media targets the males of today’s day and age to be walking advertisements in the sense that they are brain washed and become highly uncomfterble with them self.




Thesis: being more physically fit makes you more masculine.
MensFitness.com
Sitting1: December 2010
“How to drink party and get abs like this Mike "The Situation" from Jersey Shore”
Sitting2: November 2010
“Build a hardcore NFL body; “Sons of Anarchy’s Charlie Hunnam, his rugged body-weight work out will get you ripped”
Sitting4: October 2010
“Ripped & Strong”

Worst Date

Well my all time worst date ever was, a blind date set up by one of my BF's . i had no idea what he looked like or even what he was like but since i was nice i went with it. we had set it up in a manner that we would meet up at 7pm in front of the park get to know each other for a bit over dinner and after go see a movie. well like i like to say i have things to do places to go and people to see time is money, he was late not 5min late not 10 min late but 35min late i would of left after 5min late but he had called me asking me to please bear with him so i did. when he finaly comes he looked like a joke from head to toe the way he was dressed said alot since i had already waited i went to dinner with him just to be nice. on our way to the spot he wanted to hold my bag, arm, and anything that would tell the world we were more then just getting to know each other. over dinner he questioned me about anything and everything before dinner was over he felt the need to look in my bag just because i had a bag .. thats when i almost killed him and told him word for word of how i feel and think about him. when i was half way into letting him no why we would never work out even if he were the last man on earth he stated that we could of worked out if he had only kissed me when he first saw me. i put a lid on it took my suff and walked away never. i walked away with an awesome feeling because i thought i would never see him again. but o boy was i wrong about 2 weeks after thats had happen we bumped into each other in a party i was being sweat away by someone i wanted to get to no a bit better when he spoted me walks up to me and Mr. Right and says " hey baby i missed you were have you been i been looking for you" my face droped and he toped it off by telling the hot guy that was talking to me "so who are you?" ... worst date ever

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Jacqueline Tavera
ENG 101-0800
Draft #1
Google.com – GQ’s masculine hair style list. 11-08-2010
http://lifestyle.msn.com/your-look/well-groomed-male/staticslideshowgq.aspx?cp-documentid=23312429
David Beckham
Because Style Ain’t Always About the Clothes
Sometimes it’s about carriage. Attitude. Swagger. Beckham’s simply got it—what soccer coaches call intangibles and we call style. The haircut and stubble help. So does the physique. He’s got it even when he’s thrown his shirt in the crowd and is wearing nothing more than a pair of shorts and his game face.
Robert Pattinson
The Best Head of Hair on the Planet
Young Rob’s probably got the best head of hair since James Dean, and he lets it fly. And the clothes? A pair of jeans, a T-shirt, an unbuttoned and untucked plaid shirt...That’s it. He dresses his age (23); he dresses to his strengths; he dresses so you don’t give a damn about how he’s dressed.
Tom Brady
The Power of the Rugged Look
“I don’t like it when I’m so clean-shaven; it just feels very...raw. I love that day-old or two-day-old beard. Gisele? Well, I think she likes the way the beard looks, but she doesn’t like the way it feels—it pokes her face.”
Google.com - GQ’s masculine hair style list. 11-08-2010
“Guido look”
http://www.stylelist.com/2010/09/16/jersey-shore-gq-october-2010/

When we normally think about advertisement and who they are mostly advertised too we would think women, whether be clothing, house hold or even children things truth be told even male things are advertised towards females, shockingly that is correct but over the past couple of years we have seen the many different changes that have been going on around us, like that sensational hit’s “Jersey Shore”, ”Tool Academy” and many other television shows of such context we’ve seen how the men that participate in these shows have different hair styles and styles but never the less they are all masculine. When we take a look at male magazines such as GQ we see how they have come up with a list of different types of hair styles that are considered masculine, it’s an elaborate piece that gives a description of various styles in which the reader can pick and choice from the one “he” would feel more familiar with it describes each style from head to toe and to finalize it give you the type of hair style that is more appropriate for the style.
It’s an unfamiliar term of events that’s has been happening, the reason why I use the term “unfamiliar” is because when articles such magnitude where published for men they were considered to be homosexual and now they are considered informational. Even from the way they are published to the way it’s worded it projects such strong masculine rough edges to it. Like quoting the descriptions of David Beckham it starts out by saying “Because Style Ain’t Always About the Clothes” and it goes on by saying “Sometimes it’s about carriage, attitude, swagger. Beckham” simply got it”. This introduction itself screams out clearly “the perfect description of what makes men” we can see how they are trying really hard to not lose that masculinity sound.

Reflections on Bormantic Comedy

Title: Wedding Crashers
Director: David Dobkin
Actors/Performers(at least two): Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Christopher Walkin
Distributor:
Year: 2005
Meduim: Film
1.) The main male characters behave in a very "hoe" like why, they think of females as an object to have fun with only. They only respect other males if their behavios is "masculine" just like the main characters. The media and mostly everything we can think of project masculinity to be a player guys who can gt with as much females as they can.
2.) Well both bonds are emphasised, the males are good friends that trust each other with telling each other how they feel even if its kind of hard for them to do. And when it comes to male female relatonships normally males can be true to the females if they have feelings for them if not . And thats what the movie shows even is that even if its hard to do, so it kind of what David Grazina.
3.) Well to me the ultimate message is that no matter what ideas are projected towards males about what masculinity is you should always stay true to yourself and how you feel.

3 different site in which u can find male haircuts

Jacqueline Tavera
http://www.springerlink.com/content/k5210818u7635746/
( web site)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VBD-47T234J-5&_user=3951019&_coverDate=02%2F28%2F2003&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_origin=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1512953706&_rerunOrigin=scholar.google&_acct=C000061859&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=3951019&md5=ba817832d4ed828e13be408fafd23719&searchtype=a
(web site)
http://www.google.com/patents?hl=en&lr=&vid=USPAT3054183&id=Og1rAAAAEBAJ&oi=fnd&dq=masculine+haircuts&printsec=abstract#v=onepage&q=masculine%20haircuts&f=false
(Google reading)

Annotated Bibliography

ENG 101-0800 fall 1 2010
Jacqueline Tavera
Research Paper 1 Assignment and Guidelines: Masculinity in Men’s Magazines
GQ Magazine November 2009
Junod, Tom. “My Mom Couldn’t Cook.” Esquire 154.2 (Sept. 2010):152-153. Print.

Iv’ been researching GQ’s magazine, and I’ve pick a few issues to show how propaganda is pull more towards how man should look and what is the more trendy attire to wear for each season not only that is even gives you tips on what kind of hair look you should go for. The articles in each of the magazines I have picked give a very point plain outlook on what should be worn for the season in a very convincing argument.
On January 27, 2010, GQ posted an article called “Make This Year a Perfect ‘10” in it heading was “A GQ 10-point plan for manhandling the year ahead-in high style” the article goes on by giving a list of do’s and don’ts. One of the thing I came across was the list of different ways famous people have their hair and how they like it, it’s basically a recommendation list of what types of hair styles men should vote for that would keep their masculinity in tack without really going to extreme ways to try and get them. The site is posted so if you’re a guy and want to look good without sacrificing your masculinity, than this is the advertisement for you. Read More http://www.gq.com/how-to/rest-of-your-life/201002/gq-ten-point-plan#slide=27#ixzz12SEFnv9d

MY "OUTLINE"

Thesis:  Subliminal messages in our every day media

Topic1: What we view as harmless is nothing less than one of the most blunt way to let us know how much we’ve really change our stands in everyday living over the years.

●   Many different kinds of advertisement but all with the same concept.

●   The “dynamic” perspectives the media takes too send out the same message.

Topic2: How tradition/custom affect gender roles in simple thing like posing in a picture.  

●   The way males pose Vs female posing.

●   The “do’s and don’ts ” “may and may not’s”

Topic3: Sweetly coated lies we tell our self’s too make everything just a bit more bearable.

●    The unrealistic pictures meant too symbols the guide lines and standers we live by.

●   The images that are projected in the media.

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