Inflexibility Of Gender Roles Essay

The rigidity and inflexibility of gender roles in our society is a much bigger problem with much bigger consequences than people realize. One of the biggest issues with trying to fix this broken system of generalizing a gender is a lot of the time, people do not even realize they are contributing to the problem. We are so immersed in this culture and these gender norms and roles are forced onto us practically the second we enter the world, you cannot really blame anyone for any type of delayed recognition of the problem. However, we must do our best to fix them for the sanity and health of the next generation. When I was little, I loved Disney movies, but I never really realized how gendered they were and the, perhaps unintentional, messages they are subtly conveying to the young, …show more content…
I was very put off by the one ad in the compilation that had the little girl doing all sorts of domestic activities in her play house and talking about her growing her dreams there. To act as if this little girl’s dream in life was limited to doing laundry and decorating a house made me feel quite bitter because there was probably a commercial for a little boy’s chemistry play set right after. The other big issue with the media is the image portrayal of women and men alike. We see photoshoot and movies featuring perfectly attractive people and we wish we looked like these celebrities and models. The problem is they are not real. The video of the model being edited was astonishing. The amount of editing before and after the picture was taken was incredibly disturbing and sad because the woman was pretty in her natural state. These images wreak havoc on the self-esteem and body image of young impressionable girls who do not understand the image they have for themselves in their minds is unattainable. And the same goes for boys as well and this was also brought up in the portrayal of the heroes of Disney