Ashley Bialek

Gender Roles: Past, Present and Future

As a child growing up, I can always remember watching every cartoon, film, or television show and wanting to be princess of girly character. The particular film that stands our most in my mind is the Disney film, The Little Mermaid. The film is about a young mermaid that has always been daddy's little girl, but wants to run away to have a life that she has never been able to. The you mermaid, Ariel, ends up running away to the human world, marries a prince, becomes a princess, and ends up saying goodbye to her dad. I think that Ariel portrayed the typical girl gender role. She sang and danced around and wanted to be a princess and do all and any "girly" type things that she could. I found this film to relate and impact the way I though about particular gender roles, between boys and girls because, it portrayed boys as masculine princes, who take care of girls and treat them like princesses. It portrays the girls as, girls......

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Title: Gender Roles
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