Disney Stereotypes Research Paper

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When identifying stereotypes in the media, gender and gender roles provide ample opportunity for stereotypes. From Disney’s Sleeping Beauty to the poor helpless house wife saved by Mr Muscle. These women are delicate prizes to be won, dependant on others, unlike their anything but submissive rescuers. The men are strong, handsome and unemotional often rippling with muscles.

Gender makes up a substantial part of the plethora of media stereotypes found in a single TV sitting. I’m left questioning our intrinsic association of puppies and toilet paper, ducklings and tissues and how Kleenex now has to create man-sized man-branded products to counter the perceived femininity of fuzzy baby animals.

No one is safe from a good old stereotyping;

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