Gender Roles In Cinderella II

Gender roles in Cinderella II
Gender roles are very pronounced in many movies. The Disney movie, Cinderella II, is a great example of expressing the stereotypical gender roles of men and women. In this movie, Cinderella is assigned the “girl” jobs in the palace such as planning a ball and a festival. However, she has absolutely no experience in doing such events. Later in the movie, she discovered that her stepsister, Anastasia, has fallen in love with the baker but Cinderella’s evil stepmother strongly objects. In Cinderella II, the women must plan parties and banquets while the men deal with work. Consequently, Cinderella and the Prince come back from their honeymoon and the Prince rushes off with the king to deal with foreign business matters. This is very stereotypical of men because men are suppose to deal with the things that “bring the bread to the table.” The women do household chores such as cleaning, cooking, and planning parties. An …show more content…
The mistress tells her she needs a thinner waist. Why do people always assume that women need thin, skinny waists to be beautiful? This is unfair. After she is made thin by a corset, she learns how to dance. To do this, she must perfectly balance a stack of books on her head as she dances. We don’t ever see men practicing dancing as if they are always perfect. Dancing doesn’t come naturally; men need to learn how to dance just as women do. The next day, she cooks and hands out invitations. Not every woman cooks and it 's not a woman 's job, however; in many homes women do the cooking. This shows that the stereotypes are still very authentic even in our own homes. But at the end of the first clip, the Prince comes along just for the dance. Shouldn’t he have been there to help her through the whole thing. This shows that men are just supposed to be there at important occasions, but that is not a fact. They should always be there much as women are there for