Gender Stereotypes In The L Word

Spencer Hastings, played by Troian Bellisario in Pretty Little Liars, once said, “Giving into a bully never works. Even if you give them everything they ask for, it’ll never be enough. Your only choice is to stand up to them, even if it costs you something” (Pretty Little Liars 2015). This is one of the many life lessons that can be learned from this show. Pretty Little Liars became a very popular television series among teenage girls when it was released on June 8th, 2010. It is produced by Warner Brother’s Studios and directed by Marlene King. An abundance of publicity on social media has helped this show become very well known across America. While watching Pretty Little Liars, I focused on the the storyline, the actresses portraying their

Full house is an American sitcom television series that’s about a widowed father named, Danny Tanner, his brother-in-law Jesse Katsopolis, and his best friend Joey Gladstone, who help Danny raise his three children, D.J, Stephanie, and Michelle. Full House came out around the late 1980s, unfortunately, due to the the increasing costs of producing the show the series was cancelled on May 23, 1995. As a young child, Full House may have seemed as your ordinary American sitcom that is about love, friendship, and family. But that is not the case in this show, as young adults and re-watching the show again, you may stumble upon the deeper meaning and messages behind the show that is significant to society today. Such as, Full house breaks gender stereotypes and it has strong, real, and important life lessons for children.

Our World, whether it be observed or not, whether we want it to be or not, the representation of race in mainstream media from music videos to television and even films depict different cultural groups. Visual imagery in television has increasingly become major outlets in reproducing views and stereotypes that influence popular culture. In this paper, I will argue that gender representations in the well-known Netflix series: Orange Is the New Black, specifically in terms of how women are represented within the series and generally females in media. I then will focus on the Latina racial group and their stereotypes. Therefore, the representation of racially marked female bodies is influenced throughout the present mainstream of media.

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

Living in 21st century United States, being a much more liberal and inclusive environment than prior decades, gender “roles” and their normalities are being severely questioned and challenged. Americans have defined and established gender stereotypes that have become a critical part of how we look at gender roles and create biases about each gender. Stereotypes assume people who 'belong ' to a group will appear, behave, look, speak or sound like others from that group. The values, norms, practices, behaviors and traditions associated with the group are shared by all members of the group. For example, gay men are promiscuous, women are maternal and men don 't show emotions. Stereotypes are often dismissive, negative, and they are sometimes

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.

Contemporary popular culture influences the general publics perception of gender and family in modern society, this gives the filmmakers and show runners and incredibly powerful and socially responsible position. Not only is there a pressure to produce good content, but in these changing times it is unequivocal that representation is on the forefront of their minds. Unfortunately to many people of color, women, and those who identify as non-binary, this responsibility is not met.

Gender stereotypes are present in the United States today. Women are only supposed to act in feminine ways while men are only supposed to act in masculine ways. Women and men have different standards when comparing one another. Men and women have different roles that society says is more feminine or masculine. Gender stereotypes are present throughout any race. Race stereotypes are also a problem today and still have their own gender stereotypes with in their culture. When people act outside what society says those gender roles are, they are seen in a negative way. Society has determined what we consider to be acceptable definition of feminine or masculine. Throughout history, gender stereotypes have played a significant role in peoples lives.

Many times in television shows or even movies there are many stereotypes that we look over. The reason we look over them is because we don’t realize the discrimination because we think it is the norm. Stereotypes are a real thing and the times are changing. With the times that are changing television needs to change with those times.

Sex and the City is an HBO series that ran from 1998-2004 and produced two films in 2008 and 2010. The show was initially heralded as progression for the feminist movement when it started nearly 16 years ago. No other show at the time was led by four women, and Sarah Jessica Parker’s character, Carrie Bradshaw, was considered television’s first female “anti-hero”, according to an article in The New Yorker (Nussbaum, 2013). Although the characters’ personalities and development were complex, the writers of the show still managed to apply harmful female stereotypes to each of them.

Pop culture is known as the “cultural activities or commercial products reflecting, suited to, or aimed at the tastes of the general masses of people” (popular culture, n.d ). Now in the digital era where everything is available at just one click women have taken over the world causing a full sex revolution because they got tired of being the good girl in the kitchen. Still the pop culture carries on labeling women as pieces of meat and making them less than a man. Movies and different music videos represent this idea like the princess movies that are so popular in little girls who are forming their own ideas based on this movies or in music videos of top songs that everyone have sung like Blurred Lines by Robin Ticke and Talk Dirty to Me by Jason Derulo.

Question: Are Gender Stereotypes still present in Popular culture? (give reasoning with TV show, Magazine, music video, ect.)

You can view this film in two different perspectives, through lens of a female or a male. Viewing the film through the lens of a woman is as seeing it through the world of a woman in the community who is engaged by a coworker who has no non sense and who disarms and disrespects the men at work. The other woman in the miner are hardworking survivors who have no other choice but to put up with obscenity and other things and are pressured to keep their head down because they need their jobs more than they feel a need to speak up and say the truth. In the male world, picking on women is an everyday/ all day thing for them to do while at work, to them it’s what men are “supposed” to do. The men do cruel things to the women, they write things on

In the well written article, “Women in Sport: Gender Stereotypes in the past and Present” written by Kristin Wilde, Wilde’s central focus is female inequalities, as well as the struggles females face when being traditionally stereotyped. This exceptional article points to the issue that stereotypes can be really hurtful and that female sports are questioned. Women sports can be as intense as male sports. For example, in the near past and present world males are expected to be strong, independent, and athletic, whereas females are expected to be quiet, obedient, and good looking.

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