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Doing Gender

a) People "do gender" in many different ways, but it is primarily in their appearance. The men in the Avis commercial are doing gender by wearing a suit and tie and looking very businesslike. The men in the Lumbajac video are doing gender by wearing loose shirts and baggy, sagging pants, as well as flat rimmed baseball hats. The women in the Lumbajac video are doing gender by wearing very revealing, short shorts and tight, low cut tops. The men in both videos use their bodies to do gender in almost the same way. However, while the men in the Lumbajac video are bouncing around with ghetto hand motions like they mean it, the white men in the Avis commercial are clearly making some sort of joke about it. The women in the Lumbajac video are using their bodies to assert their sexuality as women. By dancing seductively and putting their hands up in the air, they seem to be attempting to show that they are sexy, which is something today's culture idealizes in women. They......

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