The image I have attached illustrates some points made in a few of the critical texts we have read throughout this semester. The First text that I believe relates to this image is Janice A. Radway’s article called “Women read Romance”. Radway discusses how women claim that they read romance novels to escape from the pressures of daily life. This somewhat fuels the stereotype that women are more complicated then men. One point that is illustrated by the image as well as the article is the defined separation of gender roles and how there seems to be a cultural distinction between male and female. Another article that this image relates to is “Inventing the Cosmo Girl” by Laurie Ouellette. The article discusses the construction of the “Cosmo Girl” and I relate this to the image because they both illustrate a type of metaphor for our cultures construction of women. While the “Cosmo Girl” is a construction of a type of “Ideal Woman” the image illustrates the stereotype that is constructed by our culture of women being more “complex or confusing” then men. The last article I relate to this image “Con-Fusing Exotica” by Sanjukta Ghosh. While Ghosh discusses everything from globalization to different cultures in her article, she also discusses the construction of Asian Indian stereotypes in our media. I can relate this two this image because the media is also greatly responsible for the construction of both male and female stereotypes that reflect the meaning of this image. The media has constructed an image of “men” that is not complex and a mind that is only concerned with simple things like sex, sports, and food, while the media has constructed an image of “women” that portrays them as complicated, stressed out, and over thinkers. All three of these articles make points that relate to the way this image is relevant to cultural studies.
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