Representation!

Hi again!

A group, issue, or event, that I want to represent in my project up in the future is gender roles and gender stereotypes. I plan to represent girls and boys as equal and is important to me to limit the inequalities between them both.

Incredibles, directed by Brad Bird is an example of a movie that men and women are shown as equal and both do the same roles while also taking on what they can, biologically. The men and the women both have main character roles and everyone is a super hero. In my media project I plan to give women roles that used to be for only men, and vice versa. The representation will be broad, and all encompassing. 

Another example is 13 going on 30, directed by Gary Winick, the main character is a powerful business women who is in charge of a section of the magazine. On top of her professional life, she also takes a hold of her fate and goes after the man that she wants, she doesn’t wait to be pursed she pursued. This is a very inspiring female role that is vernally new to the media and I plan on representing women this way in my project because it is empowering. 

I feel as though the representations characteristics of men versus women are based on the exaggerated reality of the real differences that exist between the two different groups. The source for the representation characteristics is fair and correct but the way that men and women specifically in the past have been represented in the media has been extremely unfair and wrong. That is what I plan to challenge in my project. 

I plan to not completely ignore the fact that men and women are both different, and that they do have differences. Girls should have the opportunity to do what guys can do because our minds are equal but there will always be a clear biological difference. 

Lots of love,

Lina