Sexualization Of Women In The Film 'White Chicks'

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Women can only eat salads. Women can only be under a size six. Women can only wear short skirts. White Chicks, a movie released in 2004, is a film about two male african american FBI agents who assist Tiffany and Brittany Wilson to the Hamptons. The men are forced to disguise themselves as two white women, Tiffany and Brittany Wilson, because of their misconduct of almost wrecking a vehicle with the women inside the vehicle. During the disguise as two white women, women are misrepresented as stereotypical white american women by portraying them in a certain appearance and denoting the sexualization of women.
To begin, White Chicks denotes women as the basic “stereotypical white American women” meaning all women are the same in appearance. At the beginning of the movie, two black men have to dress as two white women because of an accident. As the two black men dress as two white women, women are portrayed as light skinned, double D breasts, and a size zero. For example, the designer of the women insist on getting bigger breasts for the male declaring that they were too small. Although the women in the film have a small figure, the two white women’s best friends do not accept the “two women” as being
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The FBI agents are dressed apparel consisting of short skirts, tight pants, and low-cut shirts. The clothing illustrates that all women wear this sort of clothing. Not only are women represented as sexual beings, men continuously talk to women as nothing but a sexual object. A minor character approaches a woman demanding to come to his house at 2-3 am indicating his lustful needs toward a woman. The woman classifies that she is just not a “booty call”. The man appears uninterested and walks away from her. This concludes how men view women based upon our nature and appearance. Women conduct themselves more appropriately in other aspects of life rather than pleasing a man in his

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