Does American Popular Culture Discriminate Against Men?

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Does Popular Culture Discriminate Against Men?

Although women have always played central roles in the consumption of America's popular culture, their most significant role has been the largely passive one of providing popular culture with its major images. That is, the images of women, far more than those of men, pervade the various forms of popular culture. In short, women as a group - a class, a sex- have been used to represent most of the social mythology that is expressed in popular culture (Fishburn, p. 3, 1980). In this Essay, two authors argue whether popular culture discriminates against men. Warren Farrell points out that men are discriminated against in today's culture. He shows some absurd examples such as Shoe Box greeting cards that bash men and a button that states, "Not all men are annoying, some are dead." Farrell's point of view, the public favors stories about the oppression of women and companies are afraid of negative publicity. On the other hand, James P. Sterba argues that women are who really discriminated against in culture not men. Sterba gives an appropriate example. He points out that pornography increases discriminatory attitudes and behavior in men toward women that take