Our society determine two genders (man, woman) and follow rules that are set for them. If someone stands out of this stereotype, the acceptation by general public is not even today that open. Both readings were focusing on a new direction of feminism – Gaga Feminism, and defining what this new direction means for us. J. Jack Halberstam in his article Gaga Feminism for Beginners defined Gaga feminism as “feminism that recognizes multiple genders” and it is not trying to fight for equality between each gender but rather reduce the importance of the meanings of each gender term (25-26). He made lots of connection with movie industry and how movies portrait our life expectations and he challenged it with our life expectations in the real world. We are still thinking about man as a head of the family and the breadwinner and woman as a household keeper. Even though everything around us is changing, this perception is still same …show more content…
It is trying to abolish the stereotypical masculinity and femininity and support the idea of tolerance. We “Born This Way” so we should live that way and not be influenced by the environment and rules. Children are protected from sexuality and their perception is shaped by the environment and the stereotypes – boys are in charge and girls are waiting for their princes. However, this fairytale perception is no quite true and today we can see especially in the movies “parasitical masculinity” as it is called in Halberstam’s article. “Mumblecore films provide a justification for a new form of parasitical masculinity that [Halberstam] like to call “angler” masculinity after the anglerfish (male fish is a parasite of the female partner) (21).” However, we still living in the old perception of the masculinity and femininity – “children sexuality is denied, male sexuality is encouraged, female sexuality is repressed