Extra Credit blog

I was having a hard time thinking of something to critique, so I decided to analyze a fairly recent song by the Lonely Island called "We Like Sportz". Although this music video is a parody, it still points out certain messages about gender. First off, the whole video is about 2 guys who like sports, which is a leisure/spectator activity stereotypically enjoyed by males. They are shown to be intimidating egomaniacs which can be seen by hard looks, face paint, and sports jerseys. Just as men are so often portrayed to do, the two males in the video eat junk food, drink, smoke, and don't enjoy watching sports with women, claiming that the females "don't know all the rules". Aside from not letting women watch sports with them, they don't like to watch with their friend Steve, whom they claim talks too much, which is stereotypical of women. They constantly claim that they are real men and talk about getting into fights, shooting guns, and challenging other people on the court with overstated bravado. Although the video is meant to be funny, which I believe it is, there are several statements about gender which the video pokes fun at which are at least partially true today.