Essay On Traditional Gender Roles In Magic Mike XXL

Traditional gender roles are individuals’ behaviors seen from men and women in those old movies. While there are many differences today, these forms of behavior have left a permanent effect on society and our thoughts about men and women. In American culture, masculine roles have usually been associated with strength, belligerence, and dominance in the relationship, while feminine roles have usually been associated with passivity, fostering, loving and caring. In the 70s feminist theory, they focused how the camera and film production lingers on the women and sexualizes them in non-sexual context. So women are generally chosen to play roles with the pleasures of men in their mind. In Magic Mike XXL, the traditional gender role alternates between the men and the women. The men in the movie make sure the women are treated like queens and not just sexual beings. Society puts a label on male masculinity. If a male …show more content…
With the traditional gender roles and societal expectations of masculinity and femininity being a big factor in this movie, Rome executes throughout the movie to show her strength and supremacy as a women and be able to fully guide and support Mike and the other guys to achieve their goals. When the Mike and the guys arrived at Rome’s club, it was great to see women of different races and figures symbolized as desiring, and even irresistible. Instead of being made fun of or criticized, these women are referred to as queens, and adored by the every male entertainers. Later in the film, a group of older women vent about their sexual frustrations and cravings to the men, and they insist that these women deserve love and affection. By showing different ranges of sexually desiring female bodies, these scenes confirms that women sexual desires matters, and that all body forms and ages are worthy of