societal norms

“Boy please,” women can do everything men can

Women in America are antagonized, sexualized and minimized.

Films of all kinds reflect women’s empowerment

Image by nikki.jane via Flickr Michelle Marchante | Staff Writer michelle.marchante@fiusm.com   Looking at movies today, the most basic classification you can use to define films is probably the difference between a chick-flick and a guy movie. A guy movie normally refers to an action film with a character, normally played by some macho-man like Dwayne […]

Our fascination with television’s sociopaths

Debora Lima/Contributing Writer   Everyone loves watching a happy ending. Apparently, everyone also loves seeing unscrupulous sociopaths triumphing by bulldozing societal norms. The fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistic Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association, describes the axis of antisocial personality disorder as “…a pervasive pattern of disregard for, and […]

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