Gender Roles In Movies
When adults find out the gender of their child, they decorate, right? For girls, they buy frilly dresses and tea sets. For boys, the toy chests are overflowing with trucks and dinosaurs.
Even as children, we are taught by our parents that becoming like those stereotypical families in old movies is essential; where women always stay at home and care for the kids; where men go to work and make it home in time for dinner; where little girls are expected to wear dresses and play with dolls; where boys have to be physically active and play with cars.
These are gender roles.
Even today in grades 6-8, we are constantly pressured into fitting into these roles. Although, they are harder to identify. Even so, dress codes and shaming transgenders and
genderfluids is a dominant trait during middle school and high school.
Pop culture embraces gender roles and lets them tear apart who they really are. In other words, everyone is expected to look up to the celebrities of the same gender, so that we can learn how we should act, and how we should speak.
In schools, in public, in churches, women are expected to dress in long skirts or jeans, so they hide their legs. They can wear shorts, as long as they’re under mid-thigh.
Reading this, you’re going to think, “Crazy feminist.” When really, it’s not crazy at all, unless you believe that the gender wage gap is okay. In actuality, feminism is part of the solution to gender roles. Feminists believe in the equality of all humans, not just women.
In the end, gender roles have oppressed millions throughout the years. Ask yourself: How do gender roles apply to me? What gender roles do I fit into? And do I like it? Asking yourself these questions is one step towards figuring out who you are and who you want to be
Even as children, we are taught by our parents that becoming like those stereotypical families in old movies is essential; where women always stay at home and care for the kids; where men go to work and make it home in time for dinner; where little girls are expected to wear dresses and play with dolls; where boys have to be physically active and play with cars.
These are gender roles.
Even today in grades 6-8, we are constantly pressured into fitting into these roles. Although, they are harder to identify. Even so, dress codes and shaming transgenders and
genderfluids is a dominant trait during middle school and high school.
Pop culture embraces gender roles and lets them tear apart who they really are. In other words, everyone is expected to look up to the celebrities of the same gender, so that we can learn how we should act, and how we should speak.
In schools, in public, in churches, women are expected to dress in long skirts or jeans, so they hide their legs. They can wear shorts, as long as they’re under mid-thigh.
Reading this, you’re going to think, “Crazy feminist.” When really, it’s not crazy at all, unless you believe that the gender wage gap is okay. In actuality, feminism is part of the solution to gender roles. Feminists believe in the equality of all humans, not just women.
In the end, gender roles have oppressed millions throughout the years. Ask yourself: How do gender roles apply to me? What gender roles do I fit into? And do I like it? Asking yourself these questions is one step towards figuring out who you are and who you want to be