Million Dollar Baby Gender Roles

In the movie, Million Dollar Baby, Maggie a female boxer finds herself without a coach, but works out day after day in the gym to prove herself. This movie shows how females are capable of doing anything males can do. In todays world the female rose has changed dramatically, especially in areas such as sports. Modern society has an altered view on female athletes, some misconceptions including the controversy between female and male roles, females having masculine qualities that are not ideal and that there are only certain sports they can participate in. While some believe women should always follow the traditional female roles, nowadays it is common to see dominant females participating in all levels of workforce, including athletics, there are also many stereotypes given to female athletes critisizing their abilities. The American culture sets stereotypes on female athletics critisizing them for not following the natural role that women should traditionally play. The American culture …show more content…
Men are becoming less dominant as women get jobs and bring in an income of money for support. As women also develop a more dominant role, by not just being the caretaker the traditional housewife role becomes blurred. In an article written by Amanda Hoiness, she mentions how high athletic identifiers (both male and female) reported significantly higher masculine gender roles. Those who participated in low athletic identification reported higher levels of femininity, even though many females participate in sports, it is still an area that is dominated by masculin perceptions (3). The publics perceptions on gender role orientations highly influences the views on both male and female athletes. The masculin