Proper Dyktations
Drama queens
Welcome to another episode of Proper Dyktations titled Drama Queens. In today's episode, I’m going to talk about women in the drama industry and how they are portrayed through physical appearance, family life, and professions.
Intro to Topic
- Although through the years it has changed, women and men are portrayed very differently as the male role having dominance and sometimes just more important than the female role.
- Usually, it is through a lot of stereotypes that women either get cast for a role or the role is created based on what the general population thinks women are capable of.
Segment 1: Physical appearance
(DIRECT QUOTE FROM THE WEBSITE - MY OPINIONS ARE MY WORDS)
- The representation of women’s body imaged has long been static.
- A young single woman tends to conform to the typical “girl next door” type – tall, slim, and “conventionally beautiful” and she should have a friendly and happy personality, without much intelligence.
- Having a nice figure is necessary for measuring a woman’s worth in the show.
- Research shows that over-weighted actresses tend to receive negative comments from other male characters about their bodies, and “80% of these comments are followed by canned audience laughter”
- Typically the “overweight” female character tends to be more on the smart or comedic signs using the stereotype that skinny girls aren’t smart.
Opinions -
- This is gross honestly
- Deciding what people are going to be and act like based on their looks is honestly just ridiculous
- Take el woods from legally blonde
- In In A Street Car Named Desire, all the women are portrayed as these weak little things. And the appearance was everything to them. Blanche wouldn’t even go into the light for god's sake. She was so self-conscious about her appearance that she liked the dark too much.
Segment 2: White picket fence (family life)
- most female characters in TV dramas are set in domestic situations. Their ultimate life achievement is supposed to be getting married and giving birth to children because the home setting is the place where women’s “expertise” is highly valued
- They usually feel content about their life, without a strong desire of involving in outside-world issues. Another aspect that should be considered is marital status. Whether a woman has been married or not is more likely to be revealed, no matter to what extent it relates to the plot. Even during female characters’...
