1. The show I will be discussing is Blaze and the Monster Machines. The target audience would primarily be boys in pre-school. This series is an educational cartoon which uses Monster trucks and problem solving skills to teach STEM (Science, technology, engineering and mathematics) concepts within each episode.
2. Gender Representation:
a. In the episode that I watched, Epic Sail, there where 5 male characters and 1 female character. The ratio of male characters to female characters is 5 males to 1 female.
b. The protagonist in the cartoon is Blaze, a male monster truck and his driver is also a male named AJ. He is very knowledgeable in Science and technology.
c. There were voice overs in this cartoon. Each monster truck could speak but it was mostly the protagonist, a male voice, helping you solve each problem.
3. Gender Stereotypes:
a. The males displayed very aggressive behavior in their competiveness with each other. They were very boastful in a showing off kind of way as well as very physical in the tricks they do when they are in a race
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It stresses the role of a child forming their own ideas gender development specific to themselves. Their target audience are boys in pre-school interested in monster trucks, science and math. At this age children are "gender detectives (cited in Halim, 2017)." They are learning the difference between the two genders, understand that they must identify with one, form their own thoughts about roles and their own conclusions about each gender. In the show the ratio of male to female characters is 5 males to 1 females which are characteristic of each gender represented within the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. This show is an example how gender is stable across time. A boy interested in science and math will grow to be a man later, possibly a scientist, engineer or mathematician. Competition between boys is normal and