The Wayan Brothers: Gender Stereotypes

The Wayan brothers disguise themselves as the Wilson sisters by completely changing their image, changing the most prevalent aspect between them and the girls, their skin color. Having to live up to the stereotypes that the girls portray, such as snobby, rich, spoiled white women. Pointing towards the notion of white privilege, “unearned entitlement”. The girls are known for being a part of a rich social status family, they host the biggest parties of the year, and have a multiple billionaire father that spoils them with whatever they want. Shawn and Marlon enact the stereotypes blantly as they try to talk in a snobby voice, undermine the hotel employees, making them seem superior. This marginalizes African American people, in comparison, as savage and uncivilized inferiors. For example Latrell Spencers, one of the few African American members involved with rich social status people, depicts having a sexual interest in only white women; this furthers the myth of African American men having a strong attraction for white women. Another scene in the film, Latrell Spencers goes around catcalling white women and says, “Once you go black you end up in a wheelchair”, hypersexualizing black men, and also conforming to the stereotype that they have larger genitals than men …show more content…
It may seem that they only mock rich people but in much larger aspects they do not see the double consciousness that’s portrayed in the film. To analyze White Chicks, you can see that in scenes where the Wayan brothers mimic the Wilson sisters, they try to exaggerate their privilege such as going to an all white party, living in a predominantly white area, and only having white best friends. If one is aware of black minstrelsy, they can see that their is a relation between the mimicry in which the black men paint their entire body white to perceive a certain