I’ve heard a lot of talk recently from scholars that gender is a socially constructed entity.\u00c2\u00a0 Society expects women to be soft and submissive and pleasing to the eye.\u00c2\u00a0 On the other hand, men are supposed to be strong, rugged and take charge kind of people.\u00c2\u00a0 These constructions are extremes and as such are subject to criticism and gender blending.\u00c2\u00a0 However, what bugs me is that somehow, even we claim to be a country that is open-minded and accepting of all types of people, we still expect women to be Barbies.\u00c2\u00a0 By that I mean, we’re expected to have perfect bodies, perfect jobs and perfect children.\u00c2\u00a0 I see why the Stepford Wives was so scary.\u00c2\u00a0 As a woman, I can honestly say that I do not have any of the aforementioned perfects.\u00c2\u00a0 I like things that are typically ascribed to men.\u00c2\u00a0 I like scary movies, violent movies and beer and chili.\u00c2\u00a0 I will argue football all day long.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0I don’t see why everyone has to be pigeon-holed into rigid gender constructions.\u00c2\u00a0 I feel like Armstrong is pointing this out in her LW adaptation.\u00c2\u00a0 The feminist message comes through loud and clear.\u00c2\u00a0 Jo goes with Bhaer to the Think Tank meeting and says that men have the right to vote because they are human beings and that women should have the right for the same reason.\u00c2\u00a0 Marmee’s speech with Meg, Laurie and Mr. Brooke has a real weight to it.\u00c2\u00a0 She wants more for her girls than just to get their M.R.S. degrees (Thomas Neuhauser).\u00c2\u00a0 Gender in Armstrong’s version is very fluid in its dialogue as well as its scene selections.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t if Armstrong is a feminist or just wants to highlight the ridiculousness of societal gender constructions.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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