Gender Stereotypes In Beauty And The Beast

As a child I was raised watching many Disney movies, one of my favorites Disney movies was “Beauty and the Beast”. I never realized how many Disney movies are gender stereotyped. The meme I choose is Gaston from “Beauty and the Beast” who stereotypes women in how he thinks women should act and the fact that women shouldn’t have their opinion. This meme is explicit it is direct to the point. Gaston is saying that women shouldn’t read because than soon they start thinking and getting ideas. In many occasions a women’s voice isn’t heard as clearly as a man. Even though society is evolving many people still think that a women’s opinion is less. Gaston is a tall, strong, man who enjoys drinking and thinks Belle should cater to his every need.
During the whole movie he talks about having children and making Belle his wife, as a child I never saw anything wrong about this, but the interesting part about this movie was the fact that Belle was the outcast because she enjoyed reading, and wanted more for her future. This meme shows a bit of how Gaston thought Belle shouldn’t state her opinion and get any ideas. This shows that even though this is a Disney cartoon movie the attitude towards women is looked less than men. How the masculine men frown upon women that give opinions and show that wanting more for themselves make women an outcast and not wife material.