5/23

This week’s articles talk about gender inequality.  This article used the car industry and culture to convey the ideas of male and female roles within them. As we see the car culture, mainly we see males with the supped-up cars. Within these social interactions don’t show the homosexuality side. Because male dominance and masculinity for this hobby. Usually at car meets there will be very attractive girls posing for these cars, and how women are sexualized with car magazines. Especially Asian women because they are seen as exotic.  The lifestyle of JDM (Japanese Domestic Market) is to have a Japanese car, Honda, Toyota, Subaru, ect, and to modify it, adding racing parts, making it lower, and making it faster. At these car meets usually Asian girls are featured for when people have photo shoots of their cars. Two things in one picture men like, cars and women. Also in the film industry women are never the main character for a movie involving cars. There’s also this stereotype the women are worse drivers then men, but statistics show that men have a greater portion of car accidents.  
            The documentary of Kelly Loves Tony illustrates the difference between generations of Asian American families. Kelly who is a teen mom wants to be better than what she is now, she wants to go to school even though she knows she doesn’t have to because the men are supposed to take care of the finances and the women are to stay at home to take care of the kids. She wants to go to college but her husband and family doesn’t encourage her to do so. Basically, the whole documentary she is upset with living with her in-laws. The whole time I feel like Tony doesn’t understand her at all, and the relationship is bad, like he doesn’t really consider her wants, and thinks she should just be what everyone else wants her to be. In the family everyone is depended on each other, the adults depend on the kids, vice versa. Kelly is very frustrated with her in laws expectations of school and domestic wife, because she wants to have this personal achievement due to the culture influences of the American society.


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