Gender Stereotypes In 'Pretty Little Liars'

Television shows, the internet, books, and movies all play an integral role in setting social standards because popular culture affects such a great amount of people. This allows some forms of media, such as online series, to influence people’s thoughts, especially when looking at different stereotypes that can be positive, or negative, A clear example of this can be seen in the popular Netflix series, Orange is the New Black, which follows the story of a wealthy white women, Piper, who is sentenced to jail for drug smuggling. The show's goal is to display how life in prison really is for inmates, but the show does far more than that. Orange is the New Black delves into the racial, ethnic, and sexual constraints that these inmates face, which

The Middle, is a sitcom about the Heck family. The show focuses on a family of five and their tight finances, overscheduling, communication issues, and balancing work, and family time. The episode’s setting was spring break. After making some extra money, Mike surprises his family with a spring break vacation at Mammoth Cave. His wife, Frankie gets another family to join the. While Mike visits all of the attractions on his own, Nancy and discuss their children’s lives. Axl makes Brick help him pick up women and Sue reveals her summer plans of moving away.

By the time the show first premiered in 2006, Disney had announced it would launch Hannah merchandise by the end of the year that included but was not limited to an Hannah Montana clothing line, jewelry, dolls,and other apperal(Uhls ). This episodic television program would target young audiences from kids and tweens, but specifically targeted girls of all ages. Throughout all four seasons, as mentioned in Newman’s readings the arc or storyline across all episodes in Hannah Montana would be that of protecting Miley’s secret from the public. The show consisted of episodic beats, filled with small comedy bits and drama generated by a teenage girl’s life in order to build up the storyline as Newman mentions in his readings. One of the reasons Hannah Montana was such a success was due to the fact that Miley Cyrus embodied every aspect of her teenage character. It was a guilty pleasure to watch Miley Stewart’s everyday life filled with the chaos of real life scenarios young audiences could relate to. According to Billboard.com the Hannah Montana season finale generated around 6.2 million viewers withing the age of 6-11 and tweens within the age of 9-14 (Billboard) breaking recodrs for Disney Channel.

Holden’s mental definition of a phony is not exactly as what is expected. To Holden, a Phony is an emblem for someone who has allowed maturity to take away their innocence. Throughout the book we see that he is bothered by the hypocrisy and ugliness of adulthood and growing up. Holden’s central goal is to resist the process of maturity itself and deny the human condition, which is reality. We are shown this through the relationship between Holden and his younger sister Phoebe.

“Halloween is the one night a year when a girl can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it.” This quote comes to us from one of the main characters in the hit movie Mean Girls (2004). Even though this line is in fact quite satirical, unfortunately in our society today it also could not be more accurate. We are long past the days of Halloween being scary and we are certainly past the days when Halloween was a remembrance for loved ones who have been lost. Looking sexy and feeling sexy is now the common goal for many. By examining Halloween throughout the past decades we can see how this holiday, and the costumes that now accompany it have been morphed into the money making, sexualized and sexist holiday that we know

Mean Girls is a comedy, yet accurate portrayal of the body image issues that high school girls face today. This movie is more than just high school clique and popularity; it is critical representation of the boundaries women in our society are not allowed to cross. Societal monstrous expectation of female bodies has led to a problematic matter of self-acceptance. Berreby extends this view in his essay “Rituals and Traditions: It Takes a Tribe” where he mentions the idea of “us” vs. “them” in which he states that society has created the idea that if one does not act in a certain way, they are automatically considered “them”. Furthermore, it is essential to acknowledge that stereotypes found in movies like Mean Girls, although a classic Hollywood movie, provokes a critical view of women and contributes to perpetuate traditional gender stereotypes as it reflects dominant social values.

How women are perceived by others, and how women perceive themselves, impacts their leadership roles in the work place. Stereotypes and gender biases are themes women have been dealing with for centuries. How women are perceived by social medial and television have been influencing how they are treated by men, and how they view themselves when it comes to taking a leadership role in their organization. According to Omega Institute (2012), “The rapidly shifting landscape of new media and technology, including reality television and celebrity culture, continue to reinforce gender stereotypes” (p. 1). This leads to men still growing up viewing women as home makers versus bread winner. With more women entering leadership roles in the work place they lack the respect from men due to how these men have grown up to know the typical role of a man and woman. Men tend to feel belittled due to the gender stereotypes seen on television, and this leads to women struggling to succeed as a leader with the lack of support from their male counterparts. Lack of confidence with women in the workplace is also influenced and effected by how women are perceived in social media and television. According to Steele (2005), “Exposure to stereotypic commercials persuade women to avoid leadership roles” (p. 276). As young women grow up seeing the typical gender stereotypes they lack ambitions to break the mold and

On August 26,1920, the 19th Amendment,which guaranteed women the right to vote, was formally adopted into the U.S. Constitution

To illustrate, many still remember Miley Cyrus as the sweet pop-star and down to earth character from her role as Hannah Montana on Disney Channel. At some point many fans believed that the personality of Miley Cyrus corresponded to her role on Hannah Montana. In her honest interviews and real encounters with fans, people connected with her innocence and deemed her as a suitable role model for girls

When it comes to gender in Twin Peaks, there is a dominant social position of men and a subordinate social position of women within the show, but in some cases strays away from the norm. Firstly, the characters of Agent Dale Cooper and Sheriff Harry Truman adhere to the stereotypical hegemonic male in the crime drama as they show little deviance from their roles of being strong leading masculine characters, but both at some point in the show face emotional torment with their love interests in which love and emotions become a detriment to their work in some cases. With Agent Dale Cooper, throughout the show there are moments where he talks about his deceased love Caroline. Only to find out later in the show that Caroline was the wife of his FBI mentor Windom Earle who then killed Caroline after finding about her affair with Agent Cooper and went into hiding. Towards the end of the show, Agent Cooper decides not to hold his feelings back anymore and falls in love with Annie Blackburn, the

This generation is mainly known for our desire to find uniqueness, passing off our immaturity as Y.O.L.O (You Only Live Once) and acting childish. Miley Cyrus, also known as Hanna Montana, is someone that symbolizes this era. She is labeled as a rebel and rejected by society for making immature decisions, yet many teens are following in her footsteps. Miley’s use of drugs, uniqueness in style and dancing influences teens to be like her.

An expecting couple awaits to discover the gender of their baby. The nurse announces that it’s a girl. The couple is extremely excited, but do they truly grasp the weight of what this implies? Gender is not simply a physical trait, as it affects nearly every aspect of a person’s life. Stereotypes repress the potential in all men and women. The same stereotypes are found throughout literature such as Medea by Euripides, Chaucer’s “The Wife of Bath’s Tale”, “Sonnets” by Shakespeare, “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Frederick Waterman’s “The Best Man Wins”. A common thread between these pieces is that power can be gained by those who are suppressed by defying gender stereotypes and social hierarchies.

Traditionally, men are viewed as strong, dominant and logical, while women are regarded as the weak sex, thus being dependent on the males to make decisions and to protect them as well as their children. These roles go far back in time when males in fact had to protect their families from other tribes, wild animals etc. Even today the same values are applied both in real life and in media. In general a woman is depicted as wife, mother or a sex object. (Sex, Gender, Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation”, Year unknown).

For thousands of years, established gender roles have been a part of our society. Women are commonly known as sensitive, emotional, or passive. On the contrary, men are described as rational, competitive, independent, or aggressive. Believing women are more emotional than men is stereotyping. However, the stereotype is not entirely untrue. Development of gender roles is often conditioned more by environmental or cultural factors than by hereditary or biological factors. The development of gender roles between men and women involves the inference of peer community of each gender, the communication style of male and female and the intimacy or connection level of men and women.

Women should be caring, humble, quiet, intelligent. These are some of the generic characteristics of a stereotypical "women". If you opened a newspaper from the 1950s you would be bombarded with advertisements about women being the perfect housewives and men being strong leaders. A survey taken in the mid-1980s by British Social Attitudes showed that close to half (43 percent in 1984 and 48 percent in 1987) of people supported a gendered separation of roles, where the female was a caring mother and the male the masculine handyman. If you were to go to any social media site these days, you would see women that are changing the game with twenty-first-century texts posted everywhere that significantly challenging gender stereotypes for women.