Mostly all movies, games, and toys children have are mainly to one gender; however the case changes when a game or movie has an inequality of a certain gender. For example, Toy Story 3, which is widely known as a children’s movie depicts mainly male toys. As evidence, Natalie Wilson, who noticed, did calculations to how many girls to boys she found in the movie. She points out that only one of the new toys is female, leaving the film with a three to one boy-girl ratio. Some people who watched the movie came to a conclusion to Natalie’s claim, that was, because, mostly all the toys belonged to a boy. And that its uncommon to find a little boy play with traditionally female toys. So because of that idea, and how the movie started off, the movie had to rely on mostly male character toys since the owner of the toys himself was male.
Natalie then argues about another
stereotype within the movie is where Barbie malfunctions, which then turned her
into someone that nags, and someone that is over emotional, and also hyper
feminine. Because of Barbie being portrayed that way, it’s basically like
saying that girls are also, hyper feminine, over emotional, and also someone
that nags. Natalie Wilson drew the line where she saw a female toy out of the
majority of male toys, actually participating in the movie, however the creator
of the movie made Barbie of what it appears to be the everyday woman by
including the characteristics of women who nag.
Games have also been affected the
sexism. For example, the game “Guess Who”. “Guess who” also belongs in the
subject of sexism, because women that are in the game tend to be more obvious,
and much less than the men, in terms of quantity. They are depicted with long
hair, which can automatically take a women out, while all the men have short
hair and harder to describe. In the Huffington post article, the O’Connell’s
six year old daughter, drew the line where she saw more guys than women in the
game board, and got seriously frustrated, she then made her mom send a letter
to the game company, however they failed to give reasons why, and sent it back
in an unfriendly manner. Therefore the O’Connell’s daughter didn’t like the
fact the amount of girls were so small, which is why she drew that line, and
saw it as unfair.
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