Gendet stereotypes are present in every society. There are certain roles, behaviour, profession and even dresses which are defined for a particular sex. And if we talk about our film industry, it is also not free from gender stereotypes, infact it is highly gender stereotyped.
If we see the plot of the films in 60-70% films, the main character is a male, or the plot is revolving around a male character. In movies woman are always shown physically weak and she always need a man to rescue her from danger.
In hindi films objectification of women is done .Her sexuality is always shown as a source of attraction mainly in item songs. In films ‘ideal’ women are shown as self sacrificing, controlled and present in a saare, proper bindi, sindur and who treats her husband like a god even if he mistreats her. This shows that women having these characteristics are considered as ‘ideal’ and ‘good’ and if they aren’t fitting in this definition then they are considered as ‘bad’. So ‘bad’ women are individualistic, sexually aggressive, westernised and not sacrificing.
If we see how characters are described in movie, women are often described as attractive, beautiful, whereas males are described as strong and successful.
When a male is introduced in from of other in the movie he always introduced by his profession, but if we talk about females they are often introduced from their bodily features like beautiful or with respect to someone like xyz’s daughter or a very big buisnessman’s daughter or wife etc which shows that women don’t have their own identity and their identity depends on the male member of the family.
The profession or roles which is shown in movies for different sexes are also stereotyped like generally women are shown as housewife, taking care of home and children and if they are shown working then their profession are like teacher or doctor only. Role like police, sports, pilot arr always played by male.
Male characters are shown sometimes betting for girls with his friends as if she is an object.
Boys are shown as someone who should be capable of taking burden of the family. If the wife us earning in the house, then he is insulted in the society.
So we can see that how gender stereotypes are present in the society and these stereotypes are present in our mind in such a way and it becomes so normal for us that we don’t give it a second thought that wrong and those who are a little different from this ‘ideal’ notions and are not fit in this criteria of so called ideal male or female are not considered as part of the society and make them feel excluded.
So, it is necessary to critically think about everything present around us and see the difference between what is right and what is wrong.
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