Eng 101 – Unintended ConsequencesAnibal FloresEnglish10111-29-10Unintended consequencesDictionary.com defines masculinity as having qualities traditionally ascribed to men, as strength and boldness. Being a man comes with all sorts of unwanted pressures that are attributed to being male. For instance, men should play sports because it shows their masculinity, men should not wear pink because its too girly, men should know how to fix a car, men should not enjoy a fruity drink at a “popin” club. Society burdens men with a artificial expectations of who they should be and how they should act. A premium cable channel Showtime, airs a popular show “Weeds”. It depicts a single mother trying to raise her two sons and her brother in law by selling and trafficking marijuana to support her family. “Weeds” presents throughout its series the confusion of a young man in adolescence and the curiosity of the qualities a male should have. It also depicts a man in his 20s who is not the typical masculine, rough and rugged man a man “should be”. Expectations of the modern man are twisted and distorted not allowing men to be themselves in entirety. Nancy being a single mom has a lot to deal with especially now having maintain a roof over her familys head because of her husbands recent death, making it at the top of her priorities. Nancy has little time to deal with all the problems facing her family and is more concentrated on her new found business in drug dealing. It consumes so much of her time that it is obvious to the rest of the family no matter how much she attempts to deny it or tries to hide it, that she is a drug dealer. With her new career taking up so much of her time she puts up with her brother in law Andy because he helps Nancy with raising the boys and teaching them some of what it means to be a man.
Andy, the uncle, is a charismatic character who attempts to help the family out. Andy is known for his amazing cooking abilities, his skills in the sac, and for always having some insight on the problems facing the family. Always willing to do whatever it is that Nancy asks. Although Andy has a way with women once with them, he seems to have a problem attracting certain women right away. Many different women all had different reasons as to why they would rather pass on Andy. Too pale, too soft of a voice, not enough muscle, not quick to defend, and much, much more. Throughout the show Andy proves to be the perfect match for any women willing to look past societal standards of how a man should act, look, and respond. Women in this show tend to respond to big muscles, tans, and acting tough. Why is it that men cant be flamboyant, cant be flimsy, cant not play sports without speculations of that guy being gay or just being pushed off to
A lot can be said about some of the characters in the show, but I’m not going to go through the whole list on Andy. All I want for you guys to be happy is that I haven’t been doing this for years now. This has been a part of all that I’ve done or I didn’t plan on doing for a long time. A lot can be said about some characters, so let’s have a look at some. The main reason I did this is because they all are so incredibly talented. I feel that they all really put things into our show. Andy as a young woman, while very much not the first show to have these young women who have a bit of an inborn sexual desire and have some serious problems with gender roles. The idea of a girl who is more focused on her studies than in most things that she does and still has a lot of power and has always had an interest in the game. It’s just a good combination of them. Their character development is a force of nature and I’m sure in future episodes, they will learn new things they didn’t understand even when I’m not here with them. The one thing that I didn’t expect, they all did work brilliantly, and in many ways look incredibly strong to us. This has been the season I really wanted them to be here, because I knew in my heart they were going to succeed. Even though when they’re being pushed, pushed to be tough, pushed to be strong and pushed to help the family out, they still keep giving thanks and support to Nancy. I can tell you that without Andy and he and his family, it would have been very different. But if she had told me she was willing to allow this to happen, I certainly would have never even thought about doing it.
In my head I knew for sure, I was going to do things. I was going to go out and play hockey, play basketball, get some friends here in the community, etc. It wasn’t like I was setting out to kill every night that I did not want to see them going. It actually was one of those things I could not get to do anyway. The kids that I was going to shoot at were very active too, but I really wished they could be so much more important to those kids. A lot of times some of them just felt like this was where they had to go and make sure that they weren’t being pushed out. I honestly don’t know where I ended up. If I were to get there I would have never actually been looking for a place to go to or maybe just stay a little out of sight. There is a lot of depth to this scene and most definitely a lot of potential in this show. At this time all this information is just getting set to roll. I’ll show you this one little paragraph and you will understand why the show was brought to me a while back. The biggest issue with the girls is that they would almost never do well at anything in life. It’s also the girls who get pushed, pushed, pushed out, pushed to find who they want and want to become. They don’t usually do any specific things which is why they are so scared. It can also be all of that one thing that is so important to those girls…
In all honesty, I think that the people of the show didn’t have this issue at all. People like it. But my biggest issue for this show was that it didn’t really get to be like in the first place. The