Life Defined by Gender
Depicted by the fairy tale, a professedly ideal scene of life emerges serenely: With a beautiful and vulnerable princess under protection of the prince, the story has reached its happy ending. However, the influence after the story never ends, settling in our society. Such an image from the movie Snow White presenting different social positions for women and men is generally accepted in people’s mind. While exposed to these visual media resources, children are cultivated to fit themselves into the restricted stereotypes of gender identities, as the characters who stay stereotypical always get rewards and live happily ever after. Under the influence of such a reward system for characters who follow the gender schema, children tend to view them as role models to measure and monitor their own behavior. As Aaron Devor notes, “Children’s developing concepts of themselves as individuals are necessarily bound up in their need to understand the expectation of the society of which they are a part.” Afraid of being excluded from their social groups, they follow the schema to be recognized as valued. In order to gain acceptance from their gender groups, children always try to learn how to behave appropriately according to social expectations of their genders.
People often identify masculine as …show more content…
As a typical European-style fairy tale, the evil queen fails to kill the princess and dies, and Prince Charming finally shows up to save Snow White. Exemplified by Snow White, an ‘ideal’ woman should be beautiful, doesn’t need to work and fight but wishes for and passively accepts everything that comes to her life. Through the movie, the image of an ‘ideal’ woman with beauty and obedience becomes more vivid and influential to most of the audience -
Depicted by the fairy tale, a professedly ideal scene of life emerges serenely: With a beautiful and vulnerable princess under protection of the prince, the story has reached its happy ending. However, the influence after the story never ends, settling in our society. Such an image from the movie Snow White presenting different social positions for women and men is generally accepted in people’s mind. While exposed to these visual media resources, children are cultivated to fit themselves into the restricted stereotypes of gender identities, as the characters who stay stereotypical always get rewards and live happily ever after. Under the influence of such a reward system for characters who follow the gender schema, children tend to view them as role models to measure and monitor their own behavior. As Aaron Devor notes, “Children’s developing concepts of themselves as individuals are necessarily bound up in their need to understand the expectation of the society of which they are a part.” Afraid of being excluded from their social groups, they follow the schema to be recognized as valued. In order to gain acceptance from their gender groups, children always try to learn how to behave appropriately according to social expectations of their genders.
People often identify masculine as …show more content…
As a typical European-style fairy tale, the evil queen fails to kill the princess and dies, and Prince Charming finally shows up to save Snow White. Exemplified by Snow White, an ‘ideal’ woman should be beautiful, doesn’t need to work and fight but wishes for and passively accepts everything that comes to her life. Through the movie, the image of an ‘ideal’ woman with beauty and obedience becomes more vivid and influential to most of the audience -