Stereotypes In The Movie White Women

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Unfortunately, we hear females state that being a woman is hard and men don’t understand the hardships that they have to endure throughout their daily lives. Yet, it’s a proven fact that men don’t understand what women go through, and we may never understand females because of how dominant the male species is in our society. In Keenen Wayans popular film White Chicks (2004), two African American FBI agents named Marcus (Marlon Wayans) and Kevin (Shawn Wayans) accidently prevented a drug scheme. As a result, the two agents were punished and were forced to escort two white sisters named Britney and Tiffany Wilson to the Hamptons Hotel. The initial plan was for the two sisters to be used as a source of bait to catch a potential kidnapper. Unexpectedly, the two sisters found out about the FBI agents plan and refused to go. With absolutely no options available and their jobs potentially on the line they were forced to take matters into their own hands. Both Marcus and Kevin disguised themselves as two white women that resemble both Wilson sisters. This film shows how different men are from the opposite gender and establishes what qualities separate these genders from each other. By watching this film …show more content…

The most noticeable way that we can determine this in the film is when all the employees of the hotel refer to the agents as ladies, madam, or miss. Since the rise of the feminist movement in the late 1960s and 1970s, linguists and other academics have begun to investigate the possible role of language in the subordination of women. Language and gender can be divided into two main research areas: sexism in language and its effects, and supposedly gender specific speech styles (Laine, T., & Watson, G. (2014). With those words being exemplified to the agents we can see how Linguistic sexism is being established. Linguistic sexism is the unequal treatment built into the language for men and

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