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I watched the movie Role Models the other day. The 2 main characters have to look after little kids as part of a court settlement similar to community service. One of the characters, a man in his 20s, Wheeler, has to look after a little black kid. The kid is obsessed with boobs. When Wheeler first meets the kid, the little boy is drawing a picture of himself with a huge penis, and a woman with huge breasts pouring something on it. The caption of the picture is "Beyonce pouring sugar on my dick". This is just one example of how he views women. Even though this is a comedy, some people could be offended. Throughout the movie the boy is making references to breasts. He points them out and makes a comment about every woman in the movie. Him and his mentor Wheeler have conversations about boobs. The men in this movie view women in a typical stereotypical "frat boy" way, idolizing the women as a sexual object just good for pleasure and nothing else. Whats sad is that a boy in elementary school is already obsessed with the glorious fun bags.

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Last night I was watching the show George Lopez. George Lopez was sitting on a couch watching TV with his daughter Carmen's boyfriend, Jason. Carmen was going into the kitchen to write poetry, and Jason got up too to make sandwiches. George told him not to go, and told his daughter Carmen to make two sandwiches. She agreed like it wasn't a big deal and started to walk to the kitchen. Her friend Mackenzie got really mad at this and told Carmen not to make any sandwiches for them. She complained that George was using Carmen to make them food. Mackenzie got in an argument with George about whether Carmen should make the two males food and then the argument led to sexism. George lifted up his arm and pointed to his armpit and said "Mackenzie, I bet you have a forest under there". I found this very funny, but I suppose some feminists wouldn't. George assumed that Carmen was better at making sandwiches than Jason because she is a girl. He probably gets her to make sandwiches all the time, because she didn't argue at all. This reflects a lot of society's views about women, and how they are better at making food. Either this, or that men are just lazier than women. Either way, my girlfriend makes me great sandwiches :)

Disney movies portray genders in certain ways. The female lead characters are all skinny, tall, large breasted, and pretty. Most of the women are white, but even Pocahontas and Mulan are skinny and large breasted. The women all give into male dominance. Any Disney females who seemed to be curious about intellectual thoughts, or had disrespect for authority normally endured hardships and always eventually accepted male control. Males are also portrayed a certain ways. The "Prince Charmings" are all thin, tall, handsome, and have very large, muscular upper bodies. Disney portrayed characters the way that society wanted to seem them back in the 50's and 60's. The women were very passive and submissive to men. Sleeping Beauty only left her house because of her aunt who was a witch.