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Toy Story 3s Effect on Childrens

Development of Gender Role

Outline
Study Rationale
Introduction of Toy Story 3
Top 8 Gender Stereotype in Toy Story 3
Introduction of the Brochure

 In order to analyze gender representations in Toy Story 3, firstly we have to

understand what gender is. According to Oxford dictionary: Gender (noun) :
The state of being male or female (typically used with reference to social and
cultural differences rather than biological ones)
Gender stereotype is the overgeneralizations about the features and the
characteristics of the whole group of one gender. Therefore, the individuals feel
that they have to act according to the rules even if they are abusive and
misleading. That is why gender-stereotyping is wrong.
Children could learn the gender-stereotyping from everyone and everything
around them like their parents, siblings, relatives, books, movies, commercials
etc.

 Unfortunately, children meet the media on their early years and so they expose the
gender-stereotyping via media tools mostly during their life
It affects their developmental areas like socio-emotional development, language
development and cognitive development. For instance, gender stereotyping decrease
childrens self-esteem and self-confidence or it may lead to children gain wrong
vocabulary items like throwing like a girl or children may have trouble with deconstruction such as sense of beauty
Children see these kinds of examples via different kinds of media tools again and
again, so these patterns could be imbedded in their subconscious.

 We examined the effects of different media tools in terms of genderstereotyping like story books, magazines, ads, movies, cartoons. We
collected many data about them but we decided to one animation movie
Toy Story 3 because this movie includes common characters which most
of children know well like Barbie and Ken. Also, although most of the
parents think that these characters are so innocent and harmless for their
children, we have different examples of gender-stereotyping in the movie.

For example, Wilson claims that "Toy Story 3" is full of negative
female stereotypes that can give the wrong impression about gender
roles. She writes that the mother in the movie is depicted as
"nagging," while Barbie is shown as "over emotional" and "hyperfeminine." Her packaged partner in crime, Ken, is painted as a
"closeted gay fashionista" who is constantly teased.

Introduction of Toy Story 3

Pixar Animation Studios

Serial Movie

 The Main Characters of the Movie

 The progress of the movie

 Top 8 Gender Stereotypes in Toy Story 3

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