Where Are The Female Heroes Summary

I am pretty certain that many including me have questioned why there are few female leading roles and inclusion in TV series, and movies. Okay I’m not going to argue with anyone, and yes I’m a female, with that being said, I do not understand the logic behind making it almost all about the male characters. There are always little to non-female superheroes out there in a movie, this could be because we our community is too sensitive to the idea of female dominatrix or inflated ego. Farhi argued that “women are rarely presented as authorities in news programming. Males make up 66% of quoted material in newspapers and 75% of sources on major news shows (as cited in Wood, 2015, p. 234). It is not as common to see an action movie lead by a female but one would not need to look far to find so many of male leading action movies. Not to say that there isn’t but I don’t think it is well appreciated; some however are able to make it successfully, such

The movie included only one women superhero- the black widow, compared to most all male cast. In fact, in this entire film, only 3 women were given some type of speaking role, all which had really minor importance to the film. Most of these women were shown helping the male characters, helping them enhance their powers or providing a moral reasoning. While Black Widow’s combat skill were credential, she was essentially a superhero due to her manipulation skills. I find this super power not worthy of breaking gender barriers. This power plays with the mind and carries a feminine aspect to it considering that many regard women as highly emotional. Furthermore, the Black Widow was not given enough screen time to develop her character. In one of her scenes where she is found alone with uncontrollable Hulk, she was the only one that was shown defenseless where the fights between other superheroes are shown to be equally matched. The construction of the cast of this movie supports the opinion where the society fails to see women super hero to be empowering. Many of the fans consider the females presence in the action series to only be aiding the main masculine hero and providing romantic

In the classic tales of good versus evil, there are always one or more superheroes that fight for an ideal world, society and way of living. Take Batman and Robin as an example of these sort of superheroes. They fought crime in Gotham City to make it a more fair and just city for its citizens. Their identities were a secret in order for them to continue with their crime fighting and to avoid their personalities be the face of their cause. Put in terms of real life and in today’s society, there are those who choose to speak up, be active and try to make changes within their respective communities. Well, in the Art World, the roles of masked avengers who fight both sexism and racism are taken on

Who doesn’t love a good superhero? The perfect figure, the spandex suit, the flowing cape, flawless looks, and the powers we can only dream of having. Superheroes have been around for ages now, leaving an everlasting imprint on our hearts. It is no secret that males dominate the superhero industry; both the heroes themselves and those who create them. Superman, Batman, Ironman, and Spiderman have become the top heroes of all time; there is nothing wrong with them holding the spotlight, but female heroes are underrepresented. There are notable female heroes, but they tend to be drawn with a busty figure that few women are naturally blessed with, and show little emotional rational in fights. Take Black Widow (Marvel) for example, anyone would love for her figure and kick-ass moves. Wonder Woman is our hero of the hour, she has made her way onto the big screen; casting her into the spotlight more than ever. She screams fights for love, promotes peace, is a beacon of hope, and screams feminism. What’s not to love? The new movie released on June 2, 2017, has called more attention to the American-spirited, Amazonian woman than ever before. The movie is the first fully female directed movie, Patty Jenkins brings a great female to the big screen. Although the movie is great and supports feminism, is the movie the depiction of Wonder Woman that should be idealized?

We usually see female superheroes leading with their sex appeal in their fights against evil. It’s no

Not because they can't, but because the studio's have apparently put brain-eating in their ears and forgot history. Women have been kicking ass all the way up until now. What is one of the biggest franchises in recent memory? The Hunger Games. It starred Jennifer Lawrence fighting bad guys, a corrupt government, losing family, falling in love, and MAKING MONEY. How many movies have those things with men as the star? Most. Before you start trying to think of some top notch female action stars, let me give you a few of them really quick so your mind

I remember getting excited when I received a toy doll that came with diapers and accessories to care for when I turned 4. I was the only child at the time but somehow I knew how to care for the inanimate object, maybe from TV shows or from seeing how the women around me cared for their child. The toy section was almost like the equivalent to heaven for kids, walking down the girls’ toy section I was surrounded by toys imitating kitchen objects, there were many versions of baby dolls and the color pink flooded the isle, whether it were pink dresses or the pink vacuum cleaner. On the other side of the isle I saw soccer balls, Lego blocks and toy cars targeted for boys. Growing up, I realized the toy industry that targets the stereotypes of a gender was a sample of the gender roles that are expected to be followed in some cultures; and clearly the representation of a woman is one that does domestic work and has concern over their appearance.

If someone says the word superhero, what comes to mind? Is it Superman, or is it Wonder Woman? The overwhelming majority of superhero films tend to be centered around male superhero characters, and when female characters do take the lead, there’s usually not a male character far behind- and why is that? To this day, society still has an idea ingrained into their head that the only strong characters are male characters, and the only people who watch superhero movies are men. Though the female fan base is consistently growing within action movie and comic book culture, female characters are still being over-sexualized, belittled, and left out of marketing. The new wave of feminism has begun to percolate, using new forms of media to continuously

However another huge exposure occurs through religion and workplaces, repeating this exposures from this agent’s, lead to people to create a false sense in their self, acknowledging that everything depends on their gender and not on a socially constructed role. Studies have also shown that a young age parents supply their male children with toys such as toy guns, cars and superhero, which are obviously a meaning of aggression. Although female children are given mostly dolls such as barbies dealing with dressing them up or playing with kitchen tools. Racing your children this way are most likely to play with appropriate gender toys even if a toy is available for all genders. “As life goes on, men try to overpass women in professions such as

Recently I dropped by Target with my two kids: Alex, my 8-year-old daughter and Ryan, my 11-year-old son, to buy their friend a birthday present- whilst my wife was working. Immediately they stormed off to the toy section to unearth every possible item- for their female friend. To my surprise they chose a blue brick building set. Instantaneously I thought to myself: “Why did they look in the boys section? Wouldn’t a Barbie set be more suitable? Checking the label on the aisle I realized that there was no gender signification. In all other stores, their choice would have been confined to the boys and girls section.

A gender role is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as, “The role or behavior learned by a person as appropriate to their gender, determined by the prevailing cultural norms. (English Oxford Living Dictionary)” Common gender roles are pushed upon children from birth such as, boys play with trucks and girls play with dolls. These roles are intermingled in every aspect of society, including: haircuts, clothing, toys, and much more. People are trained up with these gender roles impacting every part of their lives. However, these gender roles go far beyond physical items, and impact emotions as well. People have always had the expectation that men are tougher and more capable then women, who are seen as weaker and more dependent upon others. Gender roles have changed and evolved over time, the division of household labor is based on gender. Traditionally, women stayed home and done most of the domestic household labor, while their male partners worked outside the home to provide the family income. Over the past 30 years more and more women have joined the workforce, but are still responsible for the majority of the household chores. (Gender - Gender Roles And Stereotypes) Things as simple as work are full of gender roles. There are some jobs in which males have preference over women and vise versa. There is almost no part of life that is without gender roles. I believe that they are important, however, I believe that we rely on

The toy aisle is always the place where a little boy and girl would want to go while in a store. The toy aisle has dolls, cars, playhouses, dinosaurs, and anything a kid could even imagine. Did you just place each toy to either suiting a boy or girl more? Sexism shockingly first comes to play among kids and what colors and toys belongs to one another. I’m definitely guilty for analyzing different items for either a boy or girl, but we shouldn’t be doing this. Having the kids grow up with sexism, even if it is little things, is instructing the kids that stereotyping is okay. Personally, this topic is important to me because stereotyping is a big issue throughout the world and we could slowly stop the stereotyping by limiting it from the infant's

The same with dolls, kitchen sets, and dress up clothes. We have very successful men who are fashion designers, chefs, and fathers. Gender culture sets limits on what industries think girls or boy will be interested in or want to play with. Thinking of children in only a gender manner and not an individual manner is simple minded. Industries need to gear their toys towards both genders so that children can make the decision on their own if it is something that interests them. I think that having non-stereotyped gender schemes would greatly affect our future by allowing children to just be children and explore and play as they please and believe in themselves to be able to be anything they want to be when they grow up regardless of their gender. I think if will affect the way they see the world and themselves and build up their self-esteem. I would tell someone is buying a toy for a young child to look at the age group and think about the kinds of thing that the child is interested in exploring and go by that instead of trying to fit into the social norms of boy and girl

First of all, despite the gaming audience being half women, most AAA games are made focussed entirely on male in mind. Ken Levine himself said that “Bioshock Infinite” was marketed to appeal to frat boys. And Naughty Dog has revealed they didn’t want to see what women thought of “The Last of Us” and that they were trying to appeal exclusively to males. While the director of “Remember me” has said the female protagonist has been killed off by publishers because men allegedly don’t want to play as a “girly girl”. Mainstream game development is predominately designed by men, for men. In the same way female characters are being designed to appeal to men, so too are male characters, but not in the objectifying sense. Objectification is the

Going into different stores, one can easily pick up on the major gender roles each store supports. Even the morals of an innocent toy store, such as KB Toys, is tainted by the gender-differentiating dolls for girls, and trucks for boys. Upon entering the store you can tell right away which aisles attract which kids. To the left there is pink fluffy bears, pink Barbie and friends toys, white teddy bears etc. To the right there is a less vibrant color setting, coordinating army green, black, and gray color schemes. I think it is apparent to anyone who enters these stores that the pink pretty isles are meant to attract little girls, and the dark green and gray isles are meant to attract boys. Upon the packages of toy trucks and guns, there are pictures of young boys playing with them and/or cartoon male figures controlling them. On the packaging of Barbie and her friends there are also other girls on the packaging. I was unable to pick up on a single female on the package of any toy truck or gun throughout the entire store. The