How Characters In The Movies Oppose Their Gender Stereotypes
Submitted by belbean on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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How Characters In The Movies Oppose Their Gender Stereotypes
Rough and tough but no sissy stuff, isn't that how all men are supposed to act? Women on the other hand are supposed to be dependent, frail and emotional, otherwise known as the weaker sex! In today's society, many people are still being brought up to believe that if you don't act in these manners then you are Homo-sexual, or that there is something wrong with you. During this paper I will describe how two people, Diana Guzzman and Billy Elliot, oppose this gender stereotype, and norm, and describe the consequences that the characters receive for acting this way, and how the way that these people acted will impact on gender equality in the future.
Billy Elliot was a young British man who lived with his father and brother. The movie started while Billy was in junior high school and his mother had already passed away. His Father and brother were both blue-collar workers at the same job, but they were on strike through the whole movie until the end. Billy's aspirations began with him playing soccer and attempting to box, but one day he decided to join the young girl's who were doing ballet and after many struggles, he ended up wanting to be a ballet dancer!
Diana Guzzman was a high school student who lived with her father and brother. Her mother had also passed away before the movie had started. Her little brother was very involved with boxing, and one day she went down to his gym and hit a boy that was picking on her brother. After that night, she decided that she wanted to be a boxer too. She had to practically beg the coach because " women don't box." But when she finally got there, she trained just as hard as any of the men, and decided that boxing is something that she wanted to pursue and follow up on. Boxing was Diana's aspiration.
"Gender Role Identification is the incorporation of a feminine or masculine role and the actions characteristic of the behaviour of a particular role"(Doyle, J. & Paludi, M., 1998, p. 45). The...
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