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Most of the cartoons I watched with my daughters have girls and women as scientists and doctors about 100% of the time. And exploit the trope of boys are stupid
by jerrya 14y ago
Most of the cartoons I watched with my daughters have girls and women as scientists and doctors about 100% of the time. And exploit the trope of boys are stupid, fathers are bumbling.
These days, well for the past several decades, I would say TV encourages boys and girls to be high pressure, well dressed lawyers, or maybe high pressure, not perhaps not as well dressed doctors.
But even the Fringe like TV shows show scientists to be mostly dweebs represented by terribly beautiful and well dressed people with boxy bulky square hipster glass frames. (This is why I had to go into normal engineering and was always scared away from fringe pseudo-science science -- I wasn't as attractive and didn't have the wardrobe dollars or fashion sense.)
- richardjordan 14y agoI certainly think it's true that popular culture has a disturbing fondness for making boys and men out to be bumbling idiots and Homer Simpsons. But, sticking with a Simpsons theme, far more of our media projects female role models closer to Jessica than Lisa.