Könsroller, eng C

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Gender Roles


This analysis is based on the movies Cruel Intensions 1,2 and 3, and focusing on the aspects; gender and power and gender and sexuality.
Let’s say; “Sexuality used to gain power.”

All three of these movies are mainly taking place in either a high school enviroment or a college enviroment. An enviroment where there are teenagers. The teenage years are years filled with games and lies and power battles, and when it comes to power battles at least the teens in these movies they now how to use their sexuality to get what they want. It’s easy to se the differences in what way girls and guys use this a way to gain power and respect. When you are a girl, well you’re not supposed to have any sexuality at all, when you’re a guy, the more the better.

Seen in these movies are how often the girls with power gain their power by making other girls look bad, and in these cases turning them in to sluts. Guys on the other hand they gain credit and respect when they “score” with a girl, they don’t have to hide it. Even if these movies most definitely are showing of an extreme, these types power games are played in real life every day society as well. We have the old well known “sleeping your way to the top” that simply aim on having sex with somebody to upgrade your position in for example a company. Even if it ain’t morally correct it still happend, and why do these power battles both between sexes and in non-mixed enviroments go on. Because they can, it’s easy to get where you want by using your sexuality. Most peolpe probably do it without even noticing.

In one of these movies we get to know a homosexual football player, accept that none of his team mates knows that he’s gay because a football player can’t be gay right? Using your sexuality to fit in to a group of peolpe I guess is very common to, you can watch a sit-com and all of a sudden realise that the totally gay fashion designer, he ain’t gay at all. But he’s afraid to be straight in that enviroment. Becasue listening to stereotypes a straight guy can’t be in to fashion and care about clothes and stuff. That’s just unthinkable.

What I’m trying to say is, people have in all times used their sexuality to get what they want, women and men. And even with all the feministic waves floating around I don’t believe that this is something that is going to change sometime near now. It’s to deep and it works to well for humanity to give up. We’ll just have to learn when to go in to battle, and when to stand back.

Moa Hasselgren - Engelska C - 2008.02.08