The Secret Life of an American Teenager finale

During the season finale, Amy finally has her baby. While Ricky, the baby's father, waited in the waiting room, he starts to get apprehensive and anxious. When he first sees the baby, he refuses to hold it. This shows how Ricky was in shock and frightened. Throughout the season, Ricky wanted to keep the baby and not put him up for adoption. However, while he waited, he questioned his ability to be a father. This displays the idea that even men get scared in life. They are not always confident and fearless like most people think when they hear the word masculinity. When Ricky finally holds the baby, his face changes completely. He looks happy and proud. At the end of the show, all of their friends went back to school. Amy stayed home in bed, and the final scene shows Ricky in the room with her holding their child. Ricky proves that he is going to stick by Amy's side and not neglect her or the baby. Men should be committed to their family and willing to support them. This goes along with the idea that the man of the house brings in most of the income and protects his family.

Taken

In the movie, Taken, an over protective dad searches to find his seventeen-year-old daughter. Against his will, he allows his daughter to travel to Europe with a friend. While talking to her on the phone, he hears her get kidnapped. He flies to Europe immediately to try to save her. He finds out that she has been used for human trafficking. Throughout the movie, he represents bravery and determination. He is the ideal masculine father who would do anything for his daughter. He fights many men and uses his experience with criminals to find his daughter. It was one man against many men, and he retrieves his daughter at the end of the movie.

Reba

During an episode of Reba, Reba's son Jake wants to try out for the football team to spend time with his dad. However, Jake is known as a "momma's boy." He is afraid of someone hitting him, and during his first football practice, he curled up into the fetal position. At the beginning of this episode, Jake has feminine qualities. For example, he would rather sew, and he was not aggressive on the field. Therefore, his brother-in-law, Van, trained him. As a result, in Jake's football try outs, he got banned from the team from being too aggressive. He would run and knock everyone to the ground. This shows his transformation into being more masculine. He was no longer afraid of being hit and proved his strength to everyone on the team and in his family.

Real World

During this week's episode of the Real World Brooklyn, conflict arose between the girls and the boys of the house. The girls were not cleaning up after themselves. For example, they would not take out the trash, clean their dishes, or clean the bathrooms. As a result, the boys were doing all the cleaning around the house, and they began to get agitated. Most people view cleaning a house as a woman's job, therefore cleaning would be viewed more as a feminine task. However, in this episode, the women were lazy and irresponsible, and the men were hardworking, clean, and organized.

House

During a previous episode of House, one of House's best doctors, Cameron, decided to quit. At first he tried to hire new workers, but none of them amounted to her. House had been trying to persuade her to come back and work for them. Eventually, Cameron agreed to come back, but only if House would take her out on a date. House is an arrogant, rude, and lonely person, and has had this tough, independent masculine character throughout his previous episodes. He is also the best doctor at the hospital, and he often solves the most tedious cases that no one else can. This allows him to be well respected, and people put up with his sarcastic personality. However, during this epsiode, House agrees to take Cameron out on a date. While getting ready, he was nervous because he had not been on a date for a long time. This allowed viewers to see his sensitive side. As a result, this portrays the idea that despite how strong, independent, and tough men are, they can always be sweet and emotional.

Over the weekend, I watched the movie House Bunny. This movie is about a young Playboy girl, Shelly, who gets thrown out of the mansion and encounters the Zeta sorority girls. The Zetas were on the verge of losing their house, and they needed 30 pledges in order to keep it. Shelly becomes their house mother and tries to make the girls appealing to the fraternity boys. She thinks that if guys want to come party at their house then girls will want to pledge Zeta. This reflects on the current college life of society. It portrays sorority girls as girly and superficial. They tend to obsess about appearance and worry about what guys think. This shows the feminine side that most people think of when they hear the word "feminine," girls who love to shop, wear makeup, go taning, and get pedicures and manicures.

The Secret Life Of An American Teenager 2

This past Monday, February 2, 2009, another new episode of The Secret Life of An American Teenager came on ABC Family. During this episode, Amy displays characteristics of a good mother. She realizes that she will not be able to provide for her child as two caring adults would. As a result, she sticks to her decision despite what Ricky, the father of the baby, or Ben, her boyfriend, says. Amy shows femininity through the her natural motherly instinct and sincerely loves her child. She puts all selfishness aside. Despite how much she may want to keep her baby, she knows that it is not the perfect life for her son.