Ross and his shirt again

I was watching another Friends episode where Ross his looking for one of his missing shirts. He asks the other friends if they have seen his "salmon-colored shirt" and they say, "you mean the pink one?". Ross corrects them and says that it is salmon colored.

Ross doesn't want to admit that the shirt is pink because it will make him less macho if it is. Although the shirt is very close to the color pink, he refuses to call it that because guys usually do not wear wear pink shirts. If they do, they are considered less manly. He doesn't want to be joked by his friends for wearing pink so he labels the color himself and sets the record straight. By calling it a salmon colored shirt, it makes it less girl for him to wear it.

This raises the question again- Why does society say that men are not supposed to wear pink colored shirts? It is because the color pink is associated with the female sex and not the male sex.

Ross loves this shirt so much and when he realizes that he left it at his ex-girlfriend's apartment, he breaks in to get it back. When she catches him and asks if she can keep it to remember him by, he says no and snatches it away from her. This brings him back into male dominance by having authority and getting what he wants- which is the shirt.

Woman in locker room

On Ugly Betty last night, Betty was shadowing a guy who worked for a sports magazine and he took her into the men's locker room where all male atheletes were showering and walking around in towels. Betty asked the guy if he was sure it was ok that she in there. He said it was ok with all the guys if it was ok with her.

Betty felt uncomfortable in the locker room because she was the only female in the room and she felt like she shouldn't be in there seeing the men half naked. The fact that she is uncomfortable and the guys, who should be the ones who are uncomfortable, are fine with it shows that women are more modest than men. If it were the other way around and there was a male in the women's locker room while the women were dressing, the women would be screaming at him to get out!

Hockey Players

I saw a commercial and it had a dad who was a hockey player on the phone with his daughter and when he said "I love You", all his hockey teammates laughed at him. This was because the men think it is not very macho for a man, especially a tough hockey player to get sappy like that. It was funny because you think of hockey players as being tough and macho and to see him say that to his daughter was nice. I think his teammates also thought it was nice but were too macho to admit that they thought so, so they covered it up by laughing at him. Personally, I think it was nice of the dad to say that to his daughter in front of all them men, risking getting made fun of.

Kelly Ripa Electrolux Commercial

I was watching TV and saw the Electrolux Washer and Dryer commercial with Kelly Ripa in it. In the commercial, she is able to wash and dry laundary, put it away, feed the dog and bake cookies for her children, all in a superwoman kind of way.

This commercial is basically saying that it is the woman's duty to take care of these household chores. I don't think it would have been the same if there had have been a man in Kelly's place in the commercial. People would have been wondering why a man was doing all these tasks and not the wife. Although the goal of the commercial is to try and sell a product, it sends the message that in our society, it is normal for the woman to take care of the laundary and other household tasks.

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