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Moore shows stereotypes of male and female behavior in love positioning. He describes two steps how male and female interact each other. First how female takes male into her world and male’s reaction to it. Second is how female persuades him to stay in her world and male’s adoption to it.

First, in the text Tommy is furious because Jody made him a vampire while he was unconscious. She needs a vampire companion to share her life. But Jody naively says: “I wanted us to be together”. Jody hides her cheap desire and replaces it with value “love”. Soon, Tommy responds sarcastically: “Yeah, that’s why you spent the night with him”. Male shows his jealousy in a childish way–mocking. Tommy keeps criticizing Jody and she logically offends it:” You had sex with me while I was unconscious”. Responding to this logic, Tommy insisting: “That’s not the same, I was just being friendly, like ….”, Male tries to justify his wrongdoings by covering it better. Soon, Tommy ends up being shameful on necrophilia, saying:” but you are not even human. You’re just some foul dead thing” Tommy soon regrets his childish reaction and curses on her. Male hates being ignored by female so they are unskillful in admitting wrongdoings. But by taking this chance Jody tries to control him:”Jody sniffled, completely for effect. Actually she was relieved that Tommy was now on the defensive” …” Dame, she should have pretended to cry”. Jody appeals to Tommy’s emotion by acting like a weak thing. Female knows how to use their tears: Male feels guilty in front of female’s tears. Tommy ends up succumbing to Jody and she acquires him: “Great, she thought, in control once again”. Soon Tommy gets frustrated with his physical changes. From here, Moore shows how female persuades male to stay in her world. Physical changes mean difficulties in adapting to female world. But Jody skillfully manipulates Tommy:” we’re fucked together. Like Romeo and Juliet…” To justify her guilt, Jody transcendentalizes the tragic changes with beautiful and sad love story “Romeo and Juliet”. Further she continues persuading Tommy, with his super power and her sexuality– both are toys for male: “you can see in the dark now. ….. I’ll get naked. You can look at me in the dark. Naked. You’ll like it”. Jody wants him to be content in her world with joys given by her. And this looks like a Mom giving toys to a son. She keeps manipulating him complimenting on his strange changes like a mom:”you’re perfect and you’ll always be perfect..” This male and female behavior shows their stereotypes in love positioning. In order to tame a male into own world, female incessantly persuades and manipulates male by appealing to emotion, encouraging, caring like a mom and using sexuality. And male reluctantly behaves to be involved in her world first but soon gets manipulated by female because of his simplicity and vulnerability to sexuality.

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Christopher Moore, uses for his humor stereotypes of male and female behavior. Please explain. I will be looking in particular for the quality and sufficiency of your evidence and analysis.

 

People can be divided two kinds. That is male and female by biological sex distinction. From this, there are some stereotypes of male and female behavior. So let us start with figure out what stereotypes mean first. The meaning of stereotype is a fixed idea or image that many people have of a particular type of person or thing, but which is often not true in reality.

In the first chapter of the book (You suck; A love story by Christopher Moore), there are some examples about stereotypes of male and female behavior are shown. There are two main characters. Male character is Tommy and female's is called Jody. From their behavior, stereotypes can be found.

For stereotype of male behavior, the indicators are followed. When Tommy was recognized he turned vampire, he felt hunger and even though Jody tried to help him and advise him, he did not listen and just did action what he wanted. For instance, he pulled a burrito out of the freezer, tried to have it. Jody said, "You don't want to eat that." However, Tommy did not care why and just did what he usually does and Jody warned once again. She said, "Put the burrito down, and back away, Tommy. I don't want you to get hurt." After all, Tommy took a big bite and he got hurt.

The other indicator for stereotype of male is followed. Tommy says hurting words without consideration to Jody. For example, he told Jody "…you're not even human. You're just some foul dead thing." And he regretted saying it. Moreover, when he found his skin cleared up he was really happy and he said, "If I had known my skin would clear up, I'd have asked you to change me a long time ago." At first he did not like what he became but when he found a little good thing of it, he liked what he was. From these indicators, it is found that male is childish.

For stereotype of female behavior, a manipulative character can be found. The indicators are followed. From one scene, Jody sniffled, completely for effect. Actually she was relieved that Tommy was now on the defensive. However, she sniffled and pretended to cry to get sympathetic feeling of Tommy. Finally, he walked into her arms and held her just like what she wanted. The other example is that. Jody told Tommy, "… I'll get naked. You can look at me in the dark. Naked. You'll like it." Jody wanted to make Tommy feel good at turned vampire so she tried to persuade him by experiencing the good thing of vampire. But he did not respond to that. This made Jody anger so she just answered Tommy's question careless. For instance, Tommy did not react to the naked persuasion and wanted to eat something. In response to this, Jody said, "Okay, I'll find you a bug or something." Here is one more thing Jody wanted to make him like turned vampire. She said, "You're in great shape from working in the grocery store. Wait until you see how you can run." Also, at the end of the chapter, Jody had not thought about whether or not Tommy would retain his incessant horniness after he turned, she just wanted a companion who could understand what she was, what she felt, etc.

Is not it humorous? It is found that Christopher Moore uses his humor stereotypes of male and female behavior. Male is childish and female is manipulative.

Saeha Lee_stereotypes of male and female behavior in You suck

Christopher Moore, uses for his humour stereotypes of male and female behavior. Please explain.

 

=> How did Christopher Moore describe stereotypes of male and female behavior?

 

Christopher Moore wrote about the two young vampires' love, which is impossible and absurd per se. The uniqueness of this fiction is that the author does not try to fulfill the readers' desires for fantastic, erotic or perpetual love of vampires like other vampire novels do. Rather, he used this unrealistic condition of the characters for highlighting stereotypes of male and female behaviors and giving some practical views on sexual interaction between them. Most women have a tendency to pursue the emotional intimacy in the relationship with a man, and as a means or result, sexual intercourse takes place So, Jody killed Tommy to achieve her goal and said, "I wanted us to be together." They were arguing about the fact that Jody turned Tommy into a vampire, which is a real issue between them. When Tommy expressed his anger and complaint about his change, she tried to draw Tommy's attention to her physical attraction to change the issue from murder to sex. For example, Jody said to Tommy, "You had sex with me while I was unconscious." Even though both sexual abuse and murder cannot be justified, she succeeded in making him step back and retaking the initiative in their tug-of-war. When Tommy completely engaged in his libido, she was relived and thought, "Great, in control once again." Because her goal is to satisfy her longing for emotional intimacy, she even thought, "If it turned out that he(Tommy) was going to be nineteen forever, she(Jody) might end up having to kill him for real." On the contrary, the very opposite process is going on in men's mind. It does not necessarily mean that men do not consider any emotional aspect in the relationship. However, for most men, the physical intimacy cannot be detached from their emotion or their love. They tend to be satisfied through physical interaction. For example, Tommy had a different plan. He worried and suspected that Jody just chose him only for convenience and run off with the old vampire who had changed Jody, and finally tried to bronze them, yet he failed. Like most men, he did not look for 'platonic love.' He easily could be happy to have sexual intercourse. While he was planning to make them statues, he wanted Jody and had sex with her dead body. He had put a cheerleader outfit on her and he had let her drink his own blood because he loved her. Unlike Jody who used physical interactions as a means, he simply wanted to interact with her physically, even in a panic. When he found his foreskin grew back, he freaked. But he said, "You are sure you don't want to give it a quick fondle?"

 

 

 

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Christopher Moore uses for his humor stereotypes of male and female behavior. Please explain.

 

In the novel "You Suck", Tommy is portrayed as a typical absent-minded, immature, horny nineteen-year-old. On the other hand, his girlfriend Jody is a sarcastic, manipulative girl.

 

Tommy has necrophilia and fantasizes about cheerleaders. He is in love with the dead body- Jody and decides to bronze her because he does not want her to run away. He drills an earhole in the sculpture, which enables Jody to get herself out of the bronze and kill him.

 

When Tommy condemns Jody for killing him, she confronts him with the fact that he had sex with a dead body. He comes up with an ignorant rationalization; He says: "I was just being friendly, like when you put a quarter in someone else's parking meter when they aren't there-you know they appreciate it later, even if they don't thank you personally." Tommy calls sex a friendly act whereas Jody feels she was used which is typical of some boys and girls to react after having sex. Then Tommy goes on to call Jody a dead foul thing. Jody, as manipulative as she is, feels relieved to hear the things Tommy say. Christopher Moore adds a sentence to the scene. "Damn, she should have pretended to cry." He uses the cunning behaviors of mean girls here for his humor.

 

Tommy likes to use words like "miasma" just to pretend he is smart. When Jody tells him he will always be the same. He says a few things that distinctly show his ignorance and immaturity. "But I was going to start working out tomorrow. I was going to be buff. I was going to have abs of steel." There is a scene in which he flexes his chest in the mirror. He is obsessed with the way he looks, especially with his muscles. It is something that a lot of boys do. Further Christopher Moore shows Tommy's confusion. "What about the writer thing? Will my brain always be like this? I mean, will I get any smarter, or is that stuck in time, too?" Tommy reminds the readers of a typical confused teenager.

 

In the scene in which Tommy finds out his foreskin has grown back, he becomes furious and calls himself "a radioactive mutant freak". He wonders if Jody would find it creepy. When Jody says she is ok with it, he wants her to touch his penis. He says: "You're sure you don't want to give it a quick fondle?" Tommy just sounds like a horny teenager who always wants to indulge in sexual pleasures, which again is a clear stereotype of teenage boys.

 

Jody knows what she can do to get what she wants; she sniffles for effect. She lures Tommy by asking him if he wants to see her naked body. She kisses Tommy's neck when she feels like she is in control.

 

These distinctive and entertaining behaviors of males and females become laughing stocks in his novel.

 

Christopher Moore, Uses For His Humor Stereotypes of Male and Female Behavior. Please Explain.

 

                  The society tends to imply to its members certain stereotypes which by time become common sense. Among these exists a good few number regarding to sexual differences. In "You Suck", a humorous novel by the American author Christopher Moore, several of these stereotypes are used as a source for humor. "You Suck" starts with an argument between Tommy and Jody. Tommy, being just transformed into a vampire by Jody, is furious about what had happened to him. In his argues with Jody most of his sentences are in favor of common stereotypes the society attributes to both sexes, to mention a few the following lines chosen from the first chapter are to be considered. The chapter starts with the transformation of Tommy to a vampire by Jody. ""You're perfect," Jody said." Or even earlier in this chapter Jody mentions she transformed Tommy into a vampire because: "I wanted us to be together." These two phrases are referring to one of the most well known stereotypes of a female-male relationship: The attempts of females to change males so that they can be together, a change considered to be a strike of perfection. "It was as if his nerves had been dialed up to eleven. "Okay, it was because of the sex." Great, she thought, in control once again." Tommy's sentence is based on the stereotype of founding all the attempts of men in a relationship as an attempt to have sex. It is good to also note that Jody's feeling is based on the common belief of females' desire to have the situation under control at all costs, and for that Jody uses her power of monopoly over Tommy, a power in possession of females; of course again based on the well known stereotypes. It is interesting to note that one can never claim the stereotypes of female-male relationships are common sense or just false beliefs, for the common sense can be a false belief sent on to the younger generation via their elders.

By: Mina Sheikhha

Ji-young HONG (Extra work)

Dear Mark,

 

I sent this just extra as we talked after class last week.

 

What does DI mean when he says he wants TB to be personally responsible?

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Relationship of Derry Irvine and Tony Blair is master-pupil and from the extract of TB's memoirs, Derry was one of the best and brightest junior counsels at the Bar. TB said "Derry taught me how to think. In intellectual terms, I had only 'passed exams' before meeting Derry, and I hadn't a clue how to think." Tony was used to help write Derry's opinions and do the pleadings. When Tony wrote an opinion, he expected Derry looked and corrected something looks better so he did not make his work perfectly. However, Derry glanced at Tony's work and signed it. Tony was aghast. Derry said "Well, it's your best work, isn't it?" Tony was terrified. The work was not his best work. Derry thought Tony could do this better or Tony is his pupil so Derry wanted to train his pupil harshly. Derry said "I don't want your ramblings, I don't want your half-thoughts. I want your best work, work that you personally will be responsible for. Understand? Then came back to me when you've done it" After Derry made Tony work harder, he had conversation with Tony about the work by going through it, explaining the faults, questioning the arguments. From mistakes, Tony had a chance to learn how to think and be personally responsible. Before expect someone help you or correct your work, do your best and do not make excuses. As long as you did your best, it is fine if you make mistakes. Take responsibility. These are lessons from TB's memoirs.

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