Men and women are interpreted through their traditional roles. From birth, you are taught a certain way to act depending on the gender you are. “Gender roles is a social and behavioral norm that is generally considered appropriate for either a man or a woman in a social setting or interpersonal relationship.” Men are shown to be the dominant member and work in order to support their family, while women are portrayed as a sign of weakness. They are symbolize as fragile, helpless house- wives, or obedient and do as they are told; treated like children. In today’s society, the aspect of living in America is based upon someone’s ability.
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Julius is an example of the typical men that works in order to provide the needs for his family. He works multiple jobs as a newspaper deliveryman and a security guard and sometimes as a fisherman. Although he has different jobs, he is very cheap. He takes the easy route as much as possible as he can. For instantly, he uses food stamps to make all his purchases and duct tape to fix everything that gets destroyed. He counts every penny and is very picking about buying things, whatever purchase his family made drove him crazy, especially stuff that they gave away. He would buy family’s appliances from Risky, the guy who steals and sell the items. He would rather buy non-brand supplies, like “nickers” instead of “snickers” or “gravy waves” instead of “Milky Way”. He also gets upset when his wife or kids would throw away food; “that’s thirty- five of kool- aid.” But that’s his way of teaching his kids how to be financial. Julius is more like Brott’s depicts because he exaggerates about his expenses. We understand that in this world times could get rough but he puts things in a dumb …show more content…
Every time she quits a job, she says the phase, “I don’t need this, my man works 2/3 jobs”. This shows that she is comfortable being a “stays at home mother”. She is very strict with your kids and always seems to get on their case about everything. In a episode, she spoke to Drew and Chris angrily, “If I ever catch any of y'all spray painting on anybody's walls I put my foot so hard that's means that you have toes for teeth, GET INSIDE”, after seeing a group of a kids tagging on a wall. This sitcom shows a great example of how women are, to raise their children correctly. In a sitcom, it shows gender feminism, where both Rochelle and Julius are arguing at home about how she complains the way Julius does things at home. “Half the stuff I do around here is better than you. It ain’t that hard!” responded Julius and that’s when Rochelle blew up. The sitcom shows that men stereotype women with thinking that staying at easy. Comparing Rochelle to Brady because she feels like she is a ‘model’. If things don’t go her way she will quit her job just to get out of the issue. She is not independent; she relies on her husband for