How Do They Portray Gender, Social Class, And Gender?

When I was a child, I watched a lot of Scooby Doo. But I really didn’t notice the detail I do now when I re-watched a couple of episodes and watched some of the commercials. Some things really stood out to me like how they portray social class and gender. Some of the commercials I saw caught my attention as well. It amazed me because I would always watch this show and obviously never noticed the amount of socialization was in TV back then. I will go over how the show and some of the commercials stereotype gender, social class, and race. In Scooby doo they make Fred the macho man and made Velma and Daphne them typical scared women who can’t defend them self. Daphne seems to follow Fred where ever he goes and it looks like she needs him wherever they go. She always seems to be the one that always gets captured because she is the weaker woman in the group. The creators gave her a tiny waist and perfect hair to show that she is the best looking person in their group. Since she is considered the most attractive one in the group she is not intelligent. Then they made look Velma look less attractive because she is the smartest in the group. The TV show is stereotyping women by showing that women can’t be smart and attractive. After twenty minutes into the show a pop tarts commercial came on and it was a child and his father sitting at the breakfast table and the father was reading a newspaper. Because he was eating this product it was making his day better. His father decided to raise his allowance while
Most of the characters I have seen were Caucasian. This isn’t correctly portrayed because they are often in cities and not a single person they met was a different race which is completely inaccurate. In the previous commercial I mentioned that was the only commercial I saw that I felt was stereotypical. Other commercials there was not any mixed children or interracial marriages. The families were either all white or all