She's The Man Gender Analysis

Gender Stereotypes in She’s the Man The movie She’s the Man can be described as a feminist film without it actually referencing to feminism. This movie is based off of William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, and in the movie it has a girl dress up as her twin brother to make it on a soccer team to prove she is just as good as the boys. The scene that causes the main character, Viola Davis, to dress up as her twin brother, is when her girls’ soccer team was cut from the school’s program because not enough girls signed up. Then she decided that she wanted to try out for the boys’ team. She asked the coach to let them try out, and he laughed in their faces and said, “Girls aren’t as fast as boys. It’s not me talking, it’s a scientific fact. Girls can’t beat boys, it’s as simple as that.” That scene then lays out the plot of the movie, and she dresses up as her twin brother to make the boys …show more content…
By using this age group, it shows how influenced they could have been by family or peers. Gender stereotypes are constantly being pushed on to younger people because they can be heavily influenced, and if someone tells a young boy or girl that boys are better at sports than girls, they are more likely to believe it and hold that stereotype. The first weakness of the study is that it was not specified how they recruited their participants. It is known that they are high school students, but it is not specified whether or not they were forced to take the questionnaire or if it was voluntary. Also, it was mentioned that there was a variety of backgrounds, but economic background and a middle sized city in France are the only pieces of information mentioned, so this study could be labeled as unrepresentative. Another weakness in the study is that it was a self-report scale of gender stereotype, and that potentially leads to