Koro had said, “Pai, go sit at the back. You’re a girl”. This short, albeit effective sentence was used by Koro because he wanted to quickly tell Pai that he didn’t care for her as much as the boys, just because of her gender. When a viewer hears this short but effective statement, they would immediately realise the great mistreatment towards Pai that she must endure every day due to the fact that she is a female. Another display of patriarchy during this film during a scene preceding the birth and simultaneous death of Pai’s brother and mother.
The movie told of a beautiful and mature woman Katherine who taught “History of Art” at Wellesley College which was a conservative women’s school that wasn’t interested in spreading women’s freedom (Newell). Giselle was important character in the movie. She was young, dynamic, and unafraid to fight for a good purpose. She was different from the traditional women because she had an independent attitude towards life, strong heart, and open-minded thoughts to the 1950s American social phenomenon that was being gradually. In the fifteen years of America after World War Ⅱ, to be a “perfect wives” and “five children’s mother” was a women’s dream (Friedan).
Cady is invited to sit with The Plastics during lunch, an offer only extended to a privileged few. In the beginning, Cady kept up the pretense of being friends with them in order to plot Regina’s downfall, but the more time she spent with them, the more obsessed she became with the idea of being in The Plastics: “Being with the Plastics was like being famous. People looked at you all the time and people just knew stuff about you.” (Mean Girls) When Cady’s plot finally works out and Regina was overthrown as the reigning ‘Queen Bee’, Cady swiftly replaced her at the top of the social hierarchy, without any protest from the other Plastics or the other girls in the school. There is something that I find particularly striking in this movie - the girls in the school hold Regina in such high regard even though it is evident in the movie that she acts nastily towards most of them. In fact, despite this, there seems to be a certain degree of honor attached to coming into any form of contact
O’Neil was hand-selected by a woman senator, because she was pretty and feminine and didn’t look like a stereotypical lesbian. O’Neil eagerly accepted the invitation, not because she wanted to be a “poster child” for women’s rights, but because she simply wanted to get training experience like the men where she worked so she could advance at her job. Men that she went to school with, were promoted ahead of her, strictly because they had training experience that she was forbid to participate in because she was told, “there are no female bathrooms on our ships.” To get her experience O’Neil had to make it through the grueling training called “hell week” where more than half of the candidates drop out because they don’t have the mental and physical strength. Throughout her training, O’Neil continuously demands that she be held to the same level of standards as the male trainees, but is constantly held to lower
The movie had to deal with its own problems and issues during the shooting of the movie. The characters of Dorothy and her friends, however have become forever linked with the actors who created the roles of the movie. W.C. Fields was the first choice to play the Wizard, but a disagreement between the studio and comic actor eliminated his name from the list. Actress Gale Sondergaard, that same year being famous as the Empress Eugenie in Juarez, was auditioned for the Wicked Witch role (Turner Movie Classics). Sondergaard was an accomplished actress, whose career was halted for 20 years thanks to the Hollywood Blacklist, but her exotic beauty was in favor of Margaret Hamilton's more traditionally "witchy" look (Turner Movie Classics).
Scout is only following the hand that she has been delt. Although she knows the correct way for her to act is like a girl, she is well aware of all the things that she will have to give up like, fighting with her brother, running around the town getting dirty and unknowingly helping her father. If she followed her girly format she probably would not have walked over to her father that day and saved his life and also the black man life he was defending
Their daughters find their inner strength and overcome their own obstacles as well, with nothing but themselves and their mother’s anecdotes to get them through it all. Three of the daughters also end their primary marriages and pursue new ones. Almost none of the Asian stereotypes surrounding women are perpetuated here. The only stereotype shown is overcome and pushed aside as the characters mature into stronger women. Joy Luck Club shows this transformation and rejection, not of the stereotype, of the role and oppression of their situation which causes them to act in accordance of that stereotype.
English Role of Women Penelope had constant pressure coming from the suitors to for her to marry them, but even with all of the pressure Penelope never loses faith in her husband. Her love for Odysseus is so unyielding, she responds to the suitor’s contestant pressure with some indecision. She never refuses to remarry outright. Instead, she puts off her decision and leads them on with promises that she will choose a new husband as soon as certain things happen. Her astute delaying tactics reveal her sly and artful side.
Later on in the movie, Scarlett begins to generate feelings for Ripcord after he saves her from falling. Scarlett can take on 6 men in a fight and still win, she can dodge flying cars while riding on a moped, all this with no help. However, when she gets flinged off her moped, she needs the help of a man to swoop in and catch her. The media is showing that women can be as strong and independent as they want, but they will still need a man to protect them. This is quite degrading to women.
The female counterparts or Latin queens are initially viewed as a subservient faction of the nation, breeders and en masse event planners, however this could not be more wrong, this is the majority for many female members but there are some outstanding Queens that transcend these roles and involve themselves in expected “male” behaviors such as violent acts, outstanding verbal leadership and over the top representation of the group or “repping”. These sisters are endearingly treated in the same light as brothers and are respected and in many ways protected, as ironic as it may sound “behaving like a bro” entitles most to be embraced and defended. These few are however the minority and most queens