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Gender stereotyping is defined as over generation of characteristics, differences and

preconception about attributes of a certain group based on their gender. Gender stereotypes
create widely accepted judgement or bias about certain characteristics that apply to each
gender. Gender stereotypes are fixed ideas about mens and womens capabilities and how
should they behave ,based on their gender. This is a no new problem since those days back.
For example, a male might say female arent suitable for profession like civil engineering or
mechanical engineering. Women are said to be suitable with soft jobs like, clerk, baby sitter
and nurse. While at the same time, women might say men do rough jobs like contractors,
lifting some stuffs and also men are supposed to be brave and strong. Speaking about the
cartoons, one of the well-known entertainment among the children and also for some of the
teenagers. Nowadays, parents , teachers , students especially children make the cartoon as
their role model to run their daily life. In my point of view, I disagree and feels that gendered
stereotyping in cartoons are not actual representation of how the world is today.
First of all, scenes and scenarios in cartoon is very nice and attractive which are created by
imagination and lies. But in the actual world, this types of scenes and sights are impossible to
happen. Most of the scenes are not practical .For example Cinderella falling in love in the
first sight and spend no time to get to know each other and lived happily each other after
which is not practical at all.Morover ,the prince in all cartoons will be very handsome and
charming like Prince Charm. But love does not bloom in someone like that, it comes by
understanding the inner beauty of a person .It comes from the bottom of your heart like a love
of a mother and her child. That is called true love. It doesnt matters black or white , perfect
or not ,a true love always exist. But in some case love on first sight do happens .For example,
a girls cuteness sometimes attracts boys. I believed that most of the first sight love doesnt
give a positive result like cartoons.
Secondly, in cartoons female characters are beautiful ,attractive with thin waist , big
eyes ,long hair like Rapunzel , wearing a beautiful dresses and shows womanly emotions or
sentiments such as kindness compassion and vulnerable feelings. But in actual world a female
with imperfections marry and have children. For males in cartoons ,being handsome , ruling
the kingdom and having special abilities .When it comes to real ,male is just a protector and
financial provider for a family no matter he is handsome or not. These types of stereotyping
proves wrong about our daily life. But in this era ,both female and male are sharing and
dividing their work .For example gender stereotypes both involves in different types of
carrier ,likes female car racers ,footballers and being a financial provider for their family.

While male are being a nurse and a babysitter and also do cooking better than women. But in
some cases, females are preferred to be a nurse and a babysitter. For example, babies are
more relaxed with female babysitters. In conclusion I believe that cartoon does not reflect our
real world.
In the virtual world, male characters in cartoons are the one who saves the world, rescuing
people, helping others , while female characters are the being rescued ,or a victim. For
example cartoons like Popeye the Sailor Man eats the spinach and gets strong and rescue the
hostage which makes no sense. How can a person become strong by eating spinach
once?.Plus ,superheroes like superman,spiderman ,batman and ironman saves the world from
bad. But in real life, women also playing a serious role in helping and protecting others. For
example Mother Theresa ,a nun who dedicated to helping the poor. This clearly proves that
cartoons are not actual representatives in our real world. But in sometimes, males are
preferred to be Policemen. Because intruders will be more afraid of male police than female
police.

In the nutshell, I disagree because cartoons are coded for both jobs character of different
genders and they have in regards to conflict resolutions. Plus, in cartoons male and female act
differ from real life. Therefore, this can be portrayed as bad and influence small children and
adult who watching these cartoons. The stereotypes in cartoon are for good illusion for the
children, plus it is just three dimensional art. Innocent display cartoons which gives many
subtle messages include various negative activitives. Children also tends to apply activities in
cartoons in their daily life. I believe that gendered stereotyping in cartoons does not represent
actual of how the world is today.They should be aware of whats going on around the world
and does not take the cartoons series as an example in our life because in reality it is different
compared to the virtual world.

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