Topic > How Women Are a Misrepresentation - 772

In the era between the 1920s and 1940s, women's roles in films could be multidimensional, and women could play different types of complex roles in different films. However, they were still presented as some of the same stereotypes in these different films. Women in movies today often represent these stereotypes too, but they tend to get stuck in the same type of role over and over again. They are overly sexualized and are not seen as real, complex human beings. They tend to have films that only revolve around men's lives and even when the films are about women, beneath the surface we can see that women's lives often revolve around men, whether it's trying to win their love, have children or even help them when they are the hero. It is also mentioned how women who are heroines are also overtly sexualized to please the male viewer and show beauty standards to women. This leaves women who are actresses between a rock and a hard place because they may want to be good role models for girls, but the roles they have the opportunity to play aren't that. They finish