Post 6: Sexism Shown in a Fiction Character that I Love.



Representation of patriarchy in Breaking Bad 


Walter White is a protagonist character of "Breaking Bad". Walter have cancer, and to leave money to his family, he starts to cook methamphetamine.
Walter cook methanphetamine whitout caring about the damage that can be done to wis wife of his son. In one scene, the boss of Walter he tells: "the man has to support the family, regardless of wether he is criticized". By having this attitude, Walter reproduces the logic of patriarchal family, wich it is man who supports economically. Skyler -the wife of Walter- leave his job and is dedicated to laundring the money that Walt earns. 
In the serie you can see how, chapter by chapter, Skyler is becoming aware of the oppression that lives, but is unable to oppose it. The relationship between Skyler and Walter progresses but they never separate, as if they were fatally united, and Skyler had to endure being maintained by Walter forever. 



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  1. Fran Miranda28 de mayo de 2019 a las 16:57

    YES, Walter has the perfect patriarch stereotype and that is projected in all the seasons of Breaking Bad

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  2. Marcelo Meza28 de mayo de 2019 a las 19:38

    I hadn't thought about this, I think it's because of the patriarchy, since their real intention is to help their family.

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I was born in 1998, in Santiago of Chile, and I was twenty years old. My father is a philosophy teacher, and my mom is kinder garden teacher. My brother Benjamín was born when I was five years old, in 2003. My family have a house in Quintero, a little city in Valparaiso region. All of the summers of my life I was in Quintero. When I was a child, I used to draw with chineese ink and I love read comics and adventure novels. When I was thirteen , I started to play acoustic guitar and electric bass, and I was in a school rock band. When I was eighteen, my father talk ed  me about Rodolfo Walsh. He was an argentinian journalism was murderer by the argentinian secret police. I was read his book title "Operación masacre", and I discovered my passion: the journalism. I started to study journalism in 2017 at Universidad de Chile.
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When I was a child, I will be a comics illustrator,  but then I changed my idea because I could never draw houses and buildings. As well, I also wanted to be a member of cosa nostra and drug trafficker, because I admiring the movie Scarface and The Godfather. When I was sixteen years, I wanted to enter to study Philosofics or History, but very impractical careers. I decided to enter to study journalism because my uncle Pedro -he is journalism and work in Ciper Chile- tell me about his job, and my father give me Operación Masacre, a book of Rodolfo Waslh. When I read the work of Walsh, I discovered my passion, and I enter to study journalism in Universidad de Chile. My experience in the university has sometimes been good and sometimes bad. I think there are many classes that do not teach me anything, and there are others where I learn too much and I feel fulfilled. I would like to work in a media like Ciper, Pro Publica, El Faro or Interferencia.
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I enjoyed studyng the "data journalism" this semester. The data journalism is a metod of investigate the public organisms of the state and the Anonymal Societates. You work with excel and dinamic tables, and visualite the results, for exaple: in one data base there is information about suicides. I analyse this data base and concluding: 30% of the persons in Chile they commit suicide. In class, we have analyse data bases and how to search and find important information to write good stories.  I investigate for this class the drought in Paine and the owners of water. I analyse the data bases of DGA (Dirección General de Aguas) for create a map of the big owners of water in Paine. Also, I reading a lot of documents and studies about the capacity of the aquifer and the drought. I like this subject because I learn to seach and find important information for the public opinion, and because I learn useful tools to exercise quality journalism.
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