What do you think of Nip/Tuck...encoded as porn? Christian? inequality?

Question

I'm writing a paper for class and I need some opinons. Does the show exploit and objectify women? Can you see gender inequality in the show and where? What do you think of Christian Troy?

Answer 1

You need to watch the entire first three seasons to come close to being able to answer this question.

Luckily for you I have watched all four seasons.

Question 1 "Porn". This is not porn. No one is being prostituted here for any reason. Just because a show is sex related or touches on matters of a sexual nature, that does not make the show porn. Porn is a synonym for prostitution. It is where the word comes from. Nobody on Nip/tuck is having real sex for money. They are having pretend sex to establish a relationship between characters. There are characters that are prostitutes and porn stars on Nip/Tuck but that does not make the show porn.

Question 2 "Christian" Christian is a complex character that starts off as a shallow womanizer and gradually matures over the series' progression into a man looking for true love but unable to find what he is looking for. The character is the son of a tramatized woman who was raped and as a result put Christain up for adoption. He grew up in foster care where he was abused but still her managed to perservere and succeed, becoming a plastic surgeon and securing the friendship of his partner and friend Shawn. Coming from a poor upbringing he is motivated by money, status, and power. He is looking to get as much of everything as he can. he likes expensive things, beautiful women, and living in the fast lane.That leads him to make bad connections, porn stars, prostitutes, drug dealers, black marketeers and alike. He is nearly killed by a drug dealer and a black market surgeon. He is raped by a serial killer because he slept with the wrong guy's sister. But when all is said and done he tries to find love in all this winds up being scared for th women he chose to fall in love with abandoning him or lying to him. The only good relationship he has is with his friend Shawn and even that is marred by a trist he had with Shawn's wife, Julia. Their one night stand turned into a child Matt. Christian only learned about this late in the relationship and by then it was something he could hardly take back and scarcely change. Julia kept it a secret. Christian's next closest relationship was with a model turned actress turned porn star named Kimber who was going to marry him and be the loving wife until she was abducted and tortured and told that he was turning her into something that she was not. The trauma made her leave him and hurt him dearly. He has tried to love again but that fell apart due to distrust.

Question 3 "Inequality" Not on this show. On this show women are as equal to men as they can be. They are equal sexually, financially, socially, morally, you name it. The writers have fully developed both the male and the female characters. They are a mixture of good and bad, wise and foolish, strong and weak and they each take turns being the cause of what is going wrong and what is going right in their relationships and in their lives. No one is being taken advantage of here.

Question 4 "Objectification?" This is the big question on which he show is centered the objectification of beauty. The always ask patients "So, tell me what you don't like about yourself?" That is key to telling you that they are their to help cure your self image more so than the way you look. How you answer this question tells them what all they going to concentrate on. If you think you have an ugly face they will fix it to your satifaction. If you weigh too much they will work on that. they don't try and sell you something you don't want and they won't promise you anything they can not deliver. What you see in the show is that the patients who come to them already know what they want. The boys just deliver it. Shawn tries to help the more challenging persons, ones who only want to repair what has been damaged or what is a birth defect in their mind. As the show tells Shawn had such a birth defect and he feels it beneficial to correct such maladies and conditions. Christian is more into the quick fix operations, partially because he is not as skillful as Shawn, and partially for all the money and status he can derive from the procedures. A serial rapist is introduced into the show to point this out. The rapist used the line "Beauty is a curse." to explain his actions. But in the end what you were supposed to learn is that Beauty is both a gift and a curse and that objectification comes both from within and from others. It is not just how other people see you that makes you feel beautiful but how you see yourself that make you feel like your beauty is a reality.

Question 5 "Christian again" When you look at what i have already told you about him and about the bit on objectification you can see how Christian's character is perhaps the one you are hoping will prove the show is about objectifying women instead of treating them. The thing is women objectify Christian as much as he objectifies them. What's more he objectifies himself more than women objectify him or he objectifies women. He is that side of he practce. Shawn is the other side of the practice, the reconstructive side. In his world to some degree helping others become something else is no the same thing as objectifying the but in fact that is exactly what it is. Shawn gets as much out of making the person look "normal" as the person gets out of the surgery. It begs the question where does vanity begin and end? Is it vain to want to be normal? Perhaps.

That should be enough to help you with your paper.

Answer 2

2

Answer 3

It kind of more exploits the Miami lifestyle and the so called lifestyle of plastic surgeons. Are all plastic surgeons beauty obsessed, money hungry, think that they are gods to be worshipped?

I don't think that the show is necessarily objectifying women so much as Christian is objectifying them, but that's his character. He's the stereotypical hot male doctor with a God complex, thinking that women are his objects.

In some ways, I think that show is more about how everyone is supposed to live up to the ideal of beauty, which I guess can objectify women because therefore, we are seen as imperfect no matter what.

I'm sorry if this wasn't helpful to you :(

Answer 4

Personally, I don't think the show objectifies women in any way. Nip/Tuck features male clients as well as female clients, and the female characters on the program are every bit as engaging as their male counterparts. Everyone's flawed or coping in their own way with their mental/physical demons.

There are those who might think that the sexual exploits of certain male characters with women who cycle through the show in appearances of sometimes as little as a single scene would qualify the show as exploitational, but it's all in service of the story. As long as it actually serves the story (as in, dealing with one character's sexual issues), I don't find it unreasonable.

Answer 5

What show doesn't exploit and objectify women? Most popluar shows do... they just mimic soceity...Christian Troy absolute YUMM!

Answer 6

yes