Cultural Influences In I Love Lucy And Leave It To Beaver

The cultural influences that prospect the lives of nearly everyone in this day in age is grand. Influences from what clothes to buy to possibly who to vote for president. This greater influence is even an enforcer of gender rule, stereotypes, norms, and expectations. Gendered expectations such as the women are to be silent and homely housewives and that the men are to be loud opinionated powerful and the bread winner. Archaic family tropes in television such as “I Love Lucy” and “Leave It To Beaver” supported the very notion but as times progressed and cultural influences adapted to the counter culture and feminist movement it started taking a turn for a different perspective. Women had voices and men were perceived as well idiots, such in shows like “Family Guy” and “The Simpsons” show this …show more content…
Little girls see a powerful women on television that gets constant belittling by everyone around her she gets put off by the scenario and instead of wanting to be powerful she rather be a conformist(?) and be accepted as the silent girl next door that the media loves to praise. Tabloids for example are always belittling independent women and attacking their style choices, their figure, what they eat, what they don't eat, their weight, and even their children. Women are put under a microscope and constantly watch to see if they make an error. While men are allowed to roam free. They praise the behaviour from men but slander it for women. Like the author of “His Politeness Is Her Powerlessness” Deborah Tannen states “There are many kinds of evidence that women and men are judged differently even if they talk the same way. This tendency makes mischief in discussions of women, men, and power. If a linguistic strategy is used by a woman, it is seen as powerless; if it is done by a man, it is seen as powerful.” Anything that a women does it's seen as less powerful than when a man does it. Due to the cultural