Status Updates From America on Film: Representi...

“By equating female with being feminine (dependent and weak), patriarchal culture is able to discourage women from gaining power of their own. When people believe that gender roles are biologically determined and not socially constructed, they are less likely to challenge the status quo, and thus patriarchal interests remain uncontested.”

While this book is a little outdated in its definitions of sex vs gender, I am heartened to see that even a textbook from 2009 says there IS a difference.

The fact that a textbook from 2009 has a quote like, “While the real world is comprised of people of all different races, genders, classes, sexualities, and physical abilities, the world depicted in Hollywood film usually posits straight white men as central and heroic, and everyone else as peripheral (or even non-existent),” is blowing my mind.