Gender and Film 2

In the movie, Anchor Man, it shows how women are oppressed in the work world. This movie demonstrates the glass ceiling. During the movie the anchor men of a news channel try to keep a woman from moving up in the news department. She is a news reporter that goes out to the scene and has the less important stories. Her dream is to be the lead anchor who sits behind the desk. It takes place in the late 70's when womens rights were more limited. One day she gets her chance when the lead anchor man shows up to work late and she gets to show her talent as being the lead anchor woman for the day and proves that she can handle the position. She gets her dream by sharing the position with a man as co-lead anchor. It shows how women were dicriminated in the work field and were believed to lack as leaders because they were female.

Gender and Film 1

Today, I watched the movie House Bunny. It's about a girl who is a play boy bunny who is tricked into leaving the play boy mansion for her "old" age, 27 years old, by another bunny. She finds herself as a house mother for a not so popular soroity. She teaches the girls how to become more popular with the boys in order to gain more pledges for their soroity. One thing she says is, "Boys don't like smart girls." Along with alot of other "advice" she gives that boys want from girls. This particular statement bothered me. Why don't boys like "smart girls." What is this statement teaching girls? Just because a girl or woman is intelligent doesn't mean that you should be ashamed of it. You get called a nerd and a book worm for learning. Is it because men are intimidated by a woman smarter than them? I don't believe the movie should have portrayed the girls the way they were. They changed their true selves to gain popularity with boys making young women believe that that's the way to get to a boys heart.