CMN 3104 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Heterosexuality, Bell Hooks, Content Analysis

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 3104
• Professor: Shelley Rabinovitch

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Terms: reverse discrimination: reverse discrimination is a claim that occurs when a member or members of a majority are discriminated against on the basis of a protected factor, such as race or gender. Common examples would include a caucasian individual who is discriminated against in favour of a racial minority, or perhaps a man suing because a woman was given favourable treatment at work on account of her gender. These thoughts or beliefs may or may not accurately reflect reality. We all have certain stereotypes that are wired into us from society. Not just from parents, but from whatever community we are embedded with. When you move from one place to another, that is what culture shock is, when people don"t think like you, things are different. Through the film, they are shooting all different types of stereotypes: binary: the classification of sex and gender into two distinct, opposite and disconnected forms of masculine and feminine.