This link leads to an article that I found, it closely analyzing how popular
television and films stereotype gender norms. The study provides proof that in
G-rated movies from 1990-2005 there was a gender and race imbalance among main
characters. Most main speaking characters were white males, there was a very small
percentage of female characters or characters of color. The article also
analyzed the amount of “hyper sexuality” of males and females in PG-13 and
R-rated movies. The study concluded that most popular films portray women as
being extremely thin, with a small waist and an unreal body shape. Also popular
films show women performing very “feminine” gendered tasks, for example taking
care of children, cooking and cleaning. These images dominate societies view of
women especially because children and young adults spend so much time watching
television and films. From a very young age, when children are learning and
developing their brains, they are brain washed because of what they continually
view on TV forming societies normative view of women. This brain washing teaches society that women should be feminine, take care of the family and are not as strong physically, mentally or socially as males. This sick and unfair way of viewing women is a result of brain washing from birth.
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