Sexism In The Great Gatsby

When antiquated ideas about gender roles are imposed without thinking, nobody wins. The episode “Women’s Appreciation” is a perfect example about how outdated gender roles not only hurt women, but also men in the form of Michael Scott. However, women usually are the prime victims of casual misogyny. I will be analyzing the form of sexism that is demonstrated by Michael Scott, the examples of women characters both enforcing and breaking gender stereotypes, and how these cause Michael to become a victim of obsolete gender roles.
Michael Scott is an eccentric man who believes himself to be a fair and non-discriminatory boss who strives to be respected by his workers. He actually is a clueless person with an outdated idea of gender roles. This is extremely obvious when confronted with the situation of Phyllis getting flashed by a stranger. After first hearing of the event, Michael’s second emotion after sadness is surprise. Because …show more content…
He thinks that he is a perfect ambassador between men and women. He states that he is misogynistic, due to his ignorance of what the word means. This lack of knowledge about basic terminology relating to feminism, shows how little he understands that he is imposing sexism in the office. Michael states that he is perfectly qualified to lead a conference on women’s appreciation, due to his relationships with women. He states that because he has a mother and a girlfriend he knows the struggles of women in a workplace environment. In the aforementioned conference Michael explains that society is sexist and to show his support for feminism in the workplace, states, “Society Sucks. I don’t even consider myself as a part of society.” Making the problem of sexism one caused by society alleviates Michael from the truth that he is continuing sexism. This is a poignant statement about how stereotypes continue in modern society by shifting the blame from the individual to society as a