WGSS 3998 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Biceps, Life Review

• School: UConn
• Department: Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
• Course: WGSS 3998
• Professor: Chrystal Smith

Document Summary

Can do anything, not afraid because the worst that can happen is death. Personal failure if you don"t still look like you"re 25 at 40. The only reason people want to do plastic surgery is pressures of society. Fear that you"re not going to live a purposeful life. Fear of death is the fear of losing the ego. As she ages she discovers all the things she could do that she couldn"t do, pressures of. Want to go to school, choose husbands, make decisions, be leaders, equal. If we"re going to see real development in the world the best investment is women. Life"s third act things in your life meaning we assign them, what kind of attitude we cling to about them, what state of mind we allow them to trigger. Always focus on subordinate groups rather than dominant groups in media. Being a man is about power, aggression and control. Born, peak at midlife, and decline into decrepitude.