My Gender hero is Fiona Gallagher from the T.V. series, Shameless. She is played by the actress, Emmy Rossum. Fiona is a troubled character, she’s had a very rough start since childhood. Living in a rundown ghetto of Chicago, with an alcoholic Father, and a bipolar drug addict for a Mother. Her Mother soon ends up leaving the family because she can’t handle six children. With her Father refusing to step up and care for his five younger children, Fiona the oldest, decides to step up and become their care giver. She provides their daily needs, using whatever means necessary. Be it theft, selling her urine (so people can pass their drug tests), or scheming gullible people out of cash, Fiona does it all to care for her siblings. The sources I used to find this information was from the ShowTime website, the actual creators of the show.
Now that doesn’t sound like the best role model, but I suppose it’s like the moral question that was brought up in class, “do you break the law, but save your wife’s life? Or do you obey the law, but let her die?” Fiona has to live by a different set of morals to ensure the survival of her siblings. And I don’t think breaking the law makes her any less of a …show more content…
She curses like a sailor, cares for her siblings in a motherly fashion, and yet isn’t afraid to get dirty in order to make money. She shakes up the traditional feminine roles in today’s media. And to me, coming from a household that continually chastises me on how I’m not, “lady-like,” I see Fiona in this comedic T.V. show, and it reminds me that I don’t have to be defined solely by my gender. I can be caring, yet “masculine,” I can have harder edges to my feminine side, and that’s okay. Because I shouldn’t be forced inside one static box, I am a dynamic character in a dynamic world, and I deserve to explore the confines of what it means to be a woman. Just like Fiona
Now that doesn’t sound like the best role model, but I suppose it’s like the moral question that was brought up in class, “do you break the law, but save your wife’s life? Or do you obey the law, but let her die?” Fiona has to live by a different set of morals to ensure the survival of her siblings. And I don’t think breaking the law makes her any less of a …show more content…
She curses like a sailor, cares for her siblings in a motherly fashion, and yet isn’t afraid to get dirty in order to make money. She shakes up the traditional feminine roles in today’s media. And to me, coming from a household that continually chastises me on how I’m not, “lady-like,” I see Fiona in this comedic T.V. show, and it reminds me that I don’t have to be defined solely by my gender. I can be caring, yet “masculine,” I can have harder edges to my feminine side, and that’s okay. Because I shouldn’t be forced inside one static box, I am a dynamic character in a dynamic world, and I deserve to explore the confines of what it means to be a woman. Just like Fiona