One of the many genre of books that are available go by the name of self-help books. Self-help books are books based around providing an individual with advice on how to overcome a specific issue. Within the context of this summary are self-help books based around gender. There are a variety of self-help books available for both men and women. However, the amount of self-help books for men is larger compared to the amount of self-help books for women.
In reference to self-help books for men, these types of self-help books expose the issues in which men keep secret or may not realize. In reference to self-help books for women, the books consist of issues which are very different compared to men. The issues for women which are addressed to women are issues with self-esteem and confidence. However, in reference to self-help books for men, the issues which are addressed in self-help books for men consist of being unable to express emotions in the right way and working too much. Therefore, topics inside of self-help books are variable depending on the sex in which the self-help book is addressed to.
There are also self-help books which explain the differences between men and women, and mentions why interactions between both sexes can be difficult. However, the quality in how these issues are addressed such books has the tendency to be low. Depending on the self-help books in this category, they have the tendency not to be helpful at all. There are some self-help books, however, that can be beneficial to the reader, but may also contain common knowledge. There are also self-help books which are not only for women but are exclusively for black women. While these types of self-help books are more obscure, they receive a large amount of positive reception from its directed audience due to the advice which these types of self-help book provides.
In conclusion, to this summary, self-help books can be variable in the quality of their content. However, they can also provide a positive impact on the reader.
Saturday, January 10, 2015
Men's Magazines
The one form of media which people are familiar with is magazines. Within this type of media, there are magazines which are for a male audience, especially men's magazines. However, men's magazines have received controversy by women due to the exploitation of women throughout the magazines available to men. Along side the exploitation of women, men's magazines also contain material based around sexuality and foul jokes about women, and inappropriate humor based around sexuality. While other parts of the magazines do not contain such materials, a descent amount of information inside to each issue of men's magazines do contain these topics. For example, one issue of a man's magazines may contain advice on how to repair a harmed friendship, while an issue of a completely different men's magazines will provide information on the size of male genitals.
Even the exact same magazine which provides information on genital sizes will also contain information on how to overcome sexual addictions, therefore making certain men's magazine's have both hypocritical and contradictory topics. Another way which makes men's magazines hypocritical, is that the same with a front cover of a woman in revealing clothing will contain information on how to overcome a sexual addiction. Besides contradictory topics, the other topics, including how to get along with women, have people questioning if men are insecure. There are both positive and negative reception of men's magazines by the male audience. Some men are displeased with the content of the magazines, while other men find the information a supportive resource.
In conclusion, men's magazines due expose various aspects of men, which are very unfortunate. Therefore, hopefully the content in the magazines will continue in being relevant to reality.
Even the exact same magazine which provides information on genital sizes will also contain information on how to overcome sexual addictions, therefore making certain men's magazine's have both hypocritical and contradictory topics. Another way which makes men's magazines hypocritical, is that the same with a front cover of a woman in revealing clothing will contain information on how to overcome a sexual addiction. Besides contradictory topics, the other topics, including how to get along with women, have people questioning if men are insecure. There are both positive and negative reception of men's magazines by the male audience. Some men are displeased with the content of the magazines, while other men find the information a supportive resource.
In conclusion, men's magazines due expose various aspects of men, which are very unfortunate. Therefore, hopefully the content in the magazines will continue in being relevant to reality.
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