Examples Of Gender Stereotypes In The Movie Tangled

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Rewa Wattar

English 101

Nicole Vandever

17 December 2017

Gender Roles Untangled

The stereotypes that surround us as we grow up affect the way look at ourselves and the roles we play in society. More specifically, gender stereotypes surround early adolescent children and continue on to their late years, restricting opportunities for the female community. These opportunities vary in every aspect of life, from mental and emotional torment, all the way to the wage gap. Women are raised in such a way where they begin to believe they are incapable of performing a man's tasks. These stereotypes on male dominance and female vulnerability are seen on a daily basis, and American cinema, children's cartoons in particular, also support the

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In this movie, a young girl is trapped in a castle, living under her evil mother's rule. It is only when the man comes and climbs her hair that he is able to let her out and set her free. In the movie Tangled, the plot supports the stereotype that women are considered hopeless and incapable of being happy on their own, which is harmful to the feminist community. Tangled is a popular animated fairy tale in American cinema which possesses and portrays the stereotype that adolescent women are to be saved by a man from a life that they would be miserable to live on their own. The movie’s plot rehashes the idea that women are lonely and miserable alone at home, and are in need of a male hero to swoop them off their feet

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This all vanished when she found her happiness in a

The famous children's fairy-tale Tangled is an example of an American cinematic failure to represent a woman's strength, supporting the gender stereotype surrounding male-dominance and female vulnerability, which is harmful towards living as an adolescent woman in American society. By allowing children to watch movies like this as they continue to grow up and mimic what they are taught, we are allowing them to grasp a complete injustice towards feminine strength and independence, straying them further from political, economic, and social gender equality. By being selective of our surroundings and what we choose to watch, or doing the same for the young women around us, we are less impacted by negative stereotypes surrounding feminine vulnerability and male dominance, and are more able to live our true meaning to the best of our abilities. By not allowing words and stereotypes to reach the communities they go

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