Snookie/JWow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8rTYeKsIy0
Mike/Ronnie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqDRZMW1xfE&feature=related
Although these particular clips of The Jersey Shore is a little extreme, I
still found it fitting based upon the excerpt of the conversation between
the two women. There are vulgarities and extreme profanities between the
two women just as there is between the two girls in this particular clip.
They instantly start screaming at each other with no real background of
meaning behind what they are saying. The part that I thought was
particularly interesting was the reaction of the boys while the girls were
yelling at one another. They really sit there and observe what?s going on,
almost like they have accepted in. In the Kulick article, the men were
observed as acting in a very similar sense. They have accept that their
women will be vulgar to one another and use profanities in public but they
simply walk by and discuss later. The men in the Jersey Shore and the men
from this Papua New Guinea article react to this particular gendered social
norm with acceptance.
Another thing that I thought was interesting within the gender social norms
in relation to this article was the different ways of fighting based on
gender in each community. Within the Papua New Guinea community, the women
are expected to converse or bicker in the kroses while the men are expected
to say certain things and express slight emotions within the oratories.
Each method of confrontation is accepted in a way that does not allow the
men or women to express themselves in another way. Throughout the show the
boys fight just as much, if not more than the. girls do, but just like the
gendered social norms of the Papua New Guinea community the ways in which
they fight are different but accepted. Most of the time women fight very
verbally, using words and explanations combined with profanities and
insults, only sometimes leading to physical fights. On the other hand, the
men are a bit less emotional in the sense that their fights are almost
strictly physical each and every time. When the boys get physical with one
another, most of the time they are left to sort it out by themselves
because it is an accepted way they can work it out. On the occasion that
the girls get physical though, the boys are almost instantly on them
pulling them off one another since they are more accepting of their verbal
form of confrontation.
In both the community discussed in the article and on the Jersey Shore,
there are accepted gendered social norms when it comes to methods of
confrontation that are distinct to each gender.
Mali
I think this is a very well thought out observation of the clips. In the article we read about the Papua New Guinea society, the women often engaged in verbal altercations with other women. They often used very vulgar language just like the women did in the Jersey Shore fight scene. I also thought it was interesting how different the clip showed of the men fighting than the men in the article. In the article, men were very non-confrontational and calm which is opposite in how the Jersey Shore men act when getting in a fight. I think the norms in the Papua New Guinea article are very different from those we have in America. In America men are often very competitive and like to show off their physical strength, very different from the men in the article.
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