Movies teach us a lot about our world. However, they sometimes present some misconceptions about women.
Women Always Need Men to Save Them
In most movies, the male-female dynamics involve a man saving a woman either from herself or from harm. While this isn’t a bad thing in and of itself, it often portrays women as weak people who can’t do anything without the “messianic” man.
Female Leaders Are Bossy and Aggressive
One of the misconceptions about women movies portray is a bossy, unhappy boss who only wants to work her subordinates to the bones. This misconception makes many people weary of female bosses because they’re scared of being overworked and mentally abused.
Women’s Careers Are Secondary to Their Personal Lives
The oft-asked question in the media of how women balance career and family is also heavily told in movies. Women are portrayed as bad when they focus heavily on their careers, growing and excelling. The ones who have families often struggle to have a good home. The message is that a woman must sacrifice one for another. And that should she have a successful career, her family would come to ruins, and it is her fault and a bad character trait.
Women’s Friendship Are Catty and Selfish
Movies always portray female friendships as fickle, lacking in substance, and filled with drama, pettiness, and jealousy. There’s usually that Friendship where one friend doesn’t love the other as much, we fight her. Most times, it’s a man coming between friends. Other times, it’s something some might consider trivial.
Women’s Careers are Secondary to their Personal Lives
Women are only interested in fashion, drama, and domestic chores: Women are portrayed in movies as people without deep ambitions. They’re not intentional about their growth. And even when they are, they still pander mainly to petty dramas, love fashion too much, and only need a man to prove she’s worth anything of value.
Women Struggle to Succeed in a Male-Dominated Field
Women don’t do well in career paths that are dominated by men, either because the men are too patriarchal to notice the women’s brilliance, or the women are too unsure of themselves they shrink to accommodate the men. In these movies, women are never confident enough in their abilities to thrive in that industry.
Women Are Always Victims Who Need Every Form of Protection
While it’s important to tell diverse stories, many movies make women out to be weak, dependent, and in constant need of saving. Whether it is Prince Charming coming to save or some other hero, the woman would not amount to anything if the man didn’t save her.
Women Need Male Attention to Feel Valued
Women are often depicted as people who’ll do anything to get the attention of the favorite man they need. Although this isn’t a terrible thing, its portrayal makes it look like that’s the only thing the women are interested in.
Women Are Not as Smart as Men
Although this has changed over the years, we still see female lead characters in movies unable to solve some simple life tasks until a man comes along. In offices, we see women who are heads of teams need the help of a man.
The Most Beautiful Woman is The Thinnest
As much as modeling has redefined beauty standards, movies amplify those defined standards. The thinnest girl gets the best man and lead character while the other women of a different, “unappealing” body size get nothing or no one remarkable.
Women Are Nurturing and Maternal
Movies make it seem like all women are maternal and love having children. The reality on the ground says otherwise. Yes, some women love children and would love to have them, but that’s not the entirety of many women’s lives.
All Women Need a Makeover to Look Beautiful
In addition to the body size beauty standard, women also make makeup and makeovers a norm for women, as though without makeup women won’t be women enough.
Women Are Always Emotional During Conflict
In movies, being emotionally sensitive is a bad trait to have. Women are portrayed as very emotional people who barely make the right decisions because of their emotionality.
Most Women Constantly Obsess Over Weight
Women in movies need love to feel complete. A rounded woman character isn’t overweight, works out, and works in a big company. The beauty stereotype shows that girls must be things.
Women Are Passive
Movies have sold the lies that most women don’t initiate conversations, ideas, or dreams. Women are often portrayed as people whose main role in life is following the leading of a man. The stereotypical woman is passive and speaks less and less ambitious.
Women Are Emotionally Weaker
Most movies have bought into the stereotype that women don’t know how to control their emotions when they get extreme. In movies, women are often the ones going off the cliff emotionally, doing unheard things to fulfill their emotional states all the time.
All Women Are Feminine
The idea of feminity in movies is one-dimensional; women are happy and ambitious but only to a certain degree. Femininity is equated to doing ‘girly’ things, and when a woman doesn’t do girly things, they are labeled as not being feministic enough. Women are either ‘girly’ or they’re not good enough to be women.
All Women Are One-Dimensional
Movies portray women in such a way that limits their voices and deadens their enthusiasm in society. It’s as though many women would rather not speak than be heard. The one-dimensional women’s stories feed into the stereotype machine that says women should only be seen and not heard.
Women Want to Build a Family
Society has defined a good woman through the lens of family and motherhood. Women, according to most, desire to be married and start a family. While starting and building a family is an awesome thing, not all women want it. And that isn’t the biggest form of achievement for most women.
Women Are Shy
This narrative has been told so many times it’s starting to feel real. Women are seen as shy people who have limited opinions and always seek permission from others before speaking.
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