Spongebob Gender Roles

Perrault’s Bluebeard (1697) explicitly holds two morals: one giving a non-gendered warning on the dangers of curiosity and another acknowledging Bluebeard’s behavior as unacceptable. Some translations of the Marchen have transformed these morals into messages condemning female behavior while wistfully looking back at a time of complete male power . However, the retells of the Bluebeard story throughout the years seem to distinctively focus on the empowerment of female characters and its detachment to traditional gender roles. Thus, we can assume that the fascination of the story lies in its promise to positively strengthen the image and role of female characters. We will demonstrate the accuracy of this statement by firstly exploring how writers

When children are born, mothers and fathers tend to describe boys as firm, alert, and strong, and girls as beautiful, pretty and cute. There is no difference between babies except for gender. The different descriptions reflect the parents’ attitudes about boys and girls rather than the babies’ actual characteristics. These stereotypes find there way into a child’s bedroom. A boy’s room contains more vehicles and sports equipment, while a girl’s room is more likely to contain dolls. Fathers, in particular, treat sons and daughters differently. Fathers play more roughly with sons than with daughters, and usually give them more independence. The different messages that are received by boys and girls from parents and TV become important to the way they view and behave in

Spongebob is a joyful character that loves life itself. Squidward just seems to mope and complain bout everything. You can see how much Spongebob loves Squidward but he always knows to shut Spongebob out of life. Squidward is more of a matured character because he doesn’t goof around like Spongebob does with his best friend, Patrick. Kind of explains why Squidward is continuously yelling at him and telling him to grow up.

In many shops, there seems to be an obvious separation between boys and girls items, for example, the birthday cards, books, clothes, and toys. This is shown in a variety of ways the boy's items are mainly the color blue and the books have pictures of either action figures, superheroes or tools. Whereas the girl's items are mainly the color pink. The books show pictures of fairies, princess, and Bratz. The cards also have the theme of the color pink for girls and blue for boys. The girl's cards have a lot of sparkles and pretty pictures whereas the boy's cards are covered in camo kind of illustrations and also have action figures on the covers. The children's clothes are separated into sections where there are labels for the boy's clothes and labels for the girl's clothes. The girl's clothing is all pretty and pink, it is covered in sparkles. Whereas boys clothing has camo patterns, blue colors, and pictures of action figures.

During the day SpongeBob will either be at The Krusty Krab as the fry cook or being with his friends doing something crazy. There are 7 main characters and only two are girls. The episode “Barnacle Face” season 8 episode 164 which aired in 2011, has only three main characters present. The episode has to do with the drama of Pearl’s high school dance and her face breaking out with barnacle’s (pimples). Pearl is the female whale who does the “normal” freaking out when a girl finds a pimple on her face. They are stereotyping girls as being overdramatic when it comes to their looks, by her break down crying about it. She also is shown wearing a pink cheerleading outfit with her hair in a ponytail. She defies gender norms by the fact she is a whale and bigger than everyone else, this is unusual since most the time media is telling girls they need to be skinny to be beautiful.I love how having her this larger size shows the other girls that it’s okay not to be skinny. In other scenes at the high school all of the girls are following social norms by wearing feminine colors and skirts or dresses. Mr.Krabs, Pearl's father is the father who spoils his “daddy’s girl”, he is shown with money and power. While Spongebob the main character helps Pearl get rid of the barnacles, he shows that boys aren't too good to help others.(Springer et al 2011). This cartoon overall did show gender bias by favoring

Gender is a very hot button issue in 2017 America. Many citizens are confused by it all and don’t quite understand gender. Would four boys from the town of South Park understand? Probably not considering one boy would fake being transgender just to skip the long bathroom lines. In the following paper I will discuss and analyze the show South Park and its view on gender roles in one episode as well as Family guy and analyze its view on gender as well.

In present day all around the world, society has certain expectations for the actions and behaviors of males and females. There are many factors in our everyday lives that contribute to the gender norms that society has set. This essay will discuss how situations in life can play a part in how people treat other people based on their gender. It is believed that males are the leaders of our world, but in present day woman can do as much as men can do. From The Journal of Marriage and Family, Hu states, “Differentiated gender roles in adulthood are rooted in one’s gender role socialization. In order to understand the persistence of gender inequalities in the domestic sphere, we need to examine the gendered patterns of children’s housework time.”(2015, P.1). Gender roles are society’s expectations of the proper behavior, attitudes, and activities of males and females that they must be taught. These roles define how females and males are viewed in society, their household, and workplace. In The Journal of Sports behavior by Hardin, he states, “Although gender role differences from biological and “Natural” exists in popular consciousness, research has long demonstrated that instead, many are long time socially constructed… Individuals understand their gender because they are given names and treated in particular ways, such as dress in pink for girls and blue for boys, that reflect social construction of gender. Bandura's social cognitive theory is key in understanding the factors in socialization”(2009, P.3). Bandura's theory of of social cognition is that behavior, environmental events, and cognitive factors are the main keys that shape attitudes and actions of an individual. Although, gender roles play a very big part in our society, specific genders are treated differently while dealing with peer influence, media influence, as well as employment.

Our society, as a whole, has its fair share of strengths and weaknesses, literature tends to reflect these standards. In general, most works of literature almost seemingly emulate the situations and viewpoints of our culture at a particular period. The Little Mermaid, a Danish fairytale written by Hans Christian Andersen in 1837, exhibits multiple examples of the general paradigms society was facing at the time. In the early 19th century women were expected to obey their husbands, have children, do household duties like cleaning and cooking, and find work as laundresses, dressmakers or nurses. Although Andersen uses a relatively progressive feminist view in his writing of the Little Mermaid, there are some dominant ideas of typical gender roles ingrained in the text. One quote from the novel reads, "...his old mother kept house for him." This excerpt implies the traditional, passive role of housekeeping for women while men occupy all noteworthy positions in society. Another passage states that Ariel and her sisters would not do anything productive but that "The whole day long they used to play in the palace."

The 2000s TV show viewed was “Everybody Loves Raymond”. In this show, a nuclear upper middle class family is portrayed. Surprisingly, this TV show brings back some traditional gender roles, as the mother and wife, Debra, is a stay at home mom. While the father and husband, Ray, is a sportswriter for a newspaper. This is strange because as we progressed through the decades these traditional gender roles seemed to be eliminated.

Your _____ depends on whether you were born with distinct male or female genitals and a genetic program that released either male or female hormones to stimulate the development of your reproductive system.

Over time the image of a family on television has changed, these changes highlight important issues in society - which can be seen through the comparison of Leave-It-To-Beaver and Modern Family. One of the main issues portrayed significantly is gender roles. In the 1950s, the World War 2 aftermath encouraged the traditional gender roles to be put back using sitcoms such as Leave-It-To-Beaver, which heavily highlights gender roles. On the other hand, 2000s family portrayal on television began to defy these ideals through switching the otherwise established roles of the mother and father in a family.

Reading novels is an experience unlike any other. With the crack of a new book, the reader is transported into the pages, into a new land, ready to take on the role of protagonist. Each little girl has the chance to be a pirate-fighting hero, each little boy able to become the doting husband. If that sentence sounds strange, it is because society has socialized individuals to gender any and all activities, reading included. Elizabeth Segel drives this point home in her article “As the Twig is Bent… Gender and Childhood Reading,” which gives an in-depth analysis of gender in children’s book, and the implications it has for readers.

In the past few decades, Lego has grown into one of the most prominent brands of children toys worldwide. Unfortunately, the success Lego continues to endure is accompanied by disapproval and accusations. The new Friends line of Lego has attracted criticism as some find it to be too gender specific and sexist. Despite the popularity of the Lego Friends sets, individuals found the sets to be offensive and discriminating towards females. The pink and purple colours with the fairy, princess or family figurines were said to be supposedly stereotyping girls. When compared to the boys Lego sets which incorporate themes such as super heroes, doctors and firefighters, the Friends line appears inferior.

The predominant family consists of pre-existing family roles of domestic wife and dominant husband, which is still seen today in a vast majority of traditional and contemporary families. This family structure, to an extent, is portrayed and represented in the family narratives of Fun Home, The Simpsons, and Ghost by Mandava. The relationship between the parents of Alison, Helen and Bruce, is strained, devoid of romance or any sort of emotional attachment, and brittle. Yet, the construction of the house and family matters were completely dominated by Bruce, as he struggles to repress his sexuality as Alison comes to terms with hers. Moreover, in the Simpsons, Marge is portrayed as a traditional house wife and regarded as a ‘television mom’ to its fans in reality. Whereas Homer is the hard-working husband who provides for his family. Mandava states in her work, Ghosts, that, “by relieving my mother of such nuisances as balancing her checkbook, my father paved a path of dependence for the both of them” (?). This exemplifies the dominance her father exerted in the family, by taking over all financial matters as well as arranging a marriage and controlling certain aspects of her sister’s life. To an extent, these family narratives are shaped to exemplify the basic function of gender roles, sexuality, and identity in nuclear families, its conformity and, later on, how it bends to specifically fit the narratives of each family.

J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan tells the story of “the boy who never grew up.” Barrie paints Peter as an extraordinary character living in a mystical world called Neverland, flying through the air, and fighting villainous pirates. He is also the boy who takes a young girl named Wendy from England back to Neverland with him. The interaction and interdependence of Barrie’s two characters, Peter and Wendy, symbolize and spread cultural gender stereotypes by mirroring the stereotypes embodied by the adult characters in the story—Mr. and Mrs. Darling—and by reflecting the ideas of gender roles of the time and foreshadowing the children’s understanding of reality and expectations, as well as their eventual maturation.