Female Adaptation to Male Domi
Female Adaptation to Male DomiThe local bar was so sure that its bartender was the strongest man around that they offered a generous $1000 bet. The bartender would squeeze a lemon until all the juice ran into a glass, and hand the lemon to a patron. Anyone who could squeeze one more drop of juice out would win the money. Many people had tried over time but nobody could do it. One day, this young, little lady came into the bar, wearing thick glasses and a polyester skirt, and said in a tiny squeaky voice, � I'd like to try the bet.� After the laughter had died down, the bartender got up, grabbed a lemon, and squeezed away. Then, he handed the wrinkled remains of the rind to the little lady. The crowd's laughter turned to total silence as the woman clenched her fist around the lemon and six drops fell into the glass. As the crowd cheered, the bartender paid the $1000, and asked the little lady, "What do you do for a living? Are you a lumberjack, a weight-lifter, or what?" The woman replied, "I work for the IRS!"
Apparently, the crowd laughed because the woman was not expected to squeeze anything out of the lemon. In fact, a woman in such a situation would be expected to just stand around her hero, the bartender, and cheer him up. How come a woman stepped into the role of a traditional masculine challenger and surprised the audience? Why was it difficult for the crowd to accept a woman in a power-challenging role? How was that swallowed?
In the body of the essay to follow, I go on to explore the traditional and cultural context of the confusion over accepting women in new roles traditionally associated with masculine authority. Specifically, I have two main sections of my quest. The first one deals with women reaching out of their current socially acceptable status and challenging the masculine authority involving traditional military settings and destructive power. The second part looks into the exact opposite scenario with women curving back into their shells to protect their traditional basic rights and to make use of the power they already possess.
To accomplish the first half of my objective, I am going perform a case study of the 1997 flick, G. I. Jane. Going even a step further, I am going to look at Lauren R. Tucker�s effort to analyze the movie for the same purpose as mine. Her essay, Do you have a permit for that?: The Gun as a Metaphor for the Transformation of G. I. Jane into G. I. Dick, talks about the movie�s representation of female efforts to succeed in the male arena. She looks at the whole perspective in an authoritative way and picks a certain central core of it to have a discussion on in the form of an essay.
Her interpretation of the movie can be summarized in the following sentences:
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