stereotypes
What are stereotypes? According to the book Social Psychology, a stereotype is a set of
Characteristics attributed to all members of some specified group or social category. Within the past few decades, women and men both have contributed their efforts to reduce stereotypes of both men and women. The effort has made many changes overtime. However some types of current media does influence and teach its viewers the stereotypes of gender that people have been trying to decrease. I have seen many stereotypes in Disney movies and Disney channel from gender stereotypes to race stereotypes. What kind of role models should children be looking up to? Is it that you can’t even trust kids television? In the following paragraphs I will discuss gender and race stereotypes portrayed in Disney movies, shows, and TV prints. I remember watching Disney movies when I was a kid. I wanted to dress up like the princesses grow up and be just like them pretty and have my prince charming. Know that I am older and have kids of my own, I have watched this movies again. What was I thinking letting my kids watch that. These characters are role models to the children that watch Disney movies and they are reinforcing gender stereotype by showing males as using forceful behavior and females as submissive. A womens appearance is valued more than her intellect. A lot of Disney movies have examples of these. Cinderella and Snow white for example are potrayed as both loving house chores .This shows that womens place is in the kitchen and doing the housework.
But one that I happen to notice a lot is Beauty and the Beast. Now that I saw the movie again realized many things for instance that Belle the main character ends up conforming to gender stereotypes in her “happily ever after,” even though at the beginning of the story it doesn’t seem that way. At the beginning I see Belle as a Feminist, she has a passion for books, and wishes to escape from her
Characteristics attributed to all members of some specified group or social category. Within the past few decades, women and men both have contributed their efforts to reduce stereotypes of both men and women. The effort has made many changes overtime. However some types of current media does influence and teach its viewers the stereotypes of gender that people have been trying to decrease. I have seen many stereotypes in Disney movies and Disney channel from gender stereotypes to race stereotypes. What kind of role models should children be looking up to? Is it that you can’t even trust kids television? In the following paragraphs I will discuss gender and race stereotypes portrayed in Disney movies, shows, and TV prints. I remember watching Disney movies when I was a kid. I wanted to dress up like the princesses grow up and be just like them pretty and have my prince charming. Know that I am older and have kids of my own, I have watched this movies again. What was I thinking letting my kids watch that. These characters are role models to the children that watch Disney movies and they are reinforcing gender stereotype by showing males as using forceful behavior and females as submissive. A womens appearance is valued more than her intellect. A lot of Disney movies have examples of these. Cinderella and Snow white for example are potrayed as both loving house chores .This shows that womens place is in the kitchen and doing the housework.
But one that I happen to notice a lot is Beauty and the Beast. Now that I saw the movie again realized many things for instance that Belle the main character ends up conforming to gender stereotypes in her “happily ever after,” even though at the beginning of the story it doesn’t seem that way. At the beginning I see Belle as a Feminist, she has a passion for books, and wishes to escape from her