Another theory that is explored in South Park is Lana Rakow, “Feminist Approaches to Popular Culture.” This theory is about how gender inequalities are challenged in society. Girls are looked at as sexual objects and have a certain stereotype. It is said that boys and girls are different and each has a certain type of sphere that they stay in and this outlook needs to be broken and changed.
“Feminist culture theory, as these selections from the feminist writing suggest, locates popular culture within a broader context of women's relationships to the means of symbolic production and expression and within a larger struggle to understand and change social relations and organization” (Rakow, 1994 p. 211).
Rakow wrote this theory so that women
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He gets sick of it and uses the girls bathroom instead. Wendy tries to stop him and tells him to go away but he stays. He is called into the principal's office and tells her that he is transgender and that is why he used the girls bathroom, however, (the viewers know this is not the reason). One day when he was using the girls bathroom, the principal told him he could get his own bathroom. Wendy and a few other girls were there and Wendy says that it wasn’t fair but the other girl says, “Wendy just go with it.”
This shows how Wendy was concerned right from the beginning but no other girl cared. This shows how progressive she was. He got to decorate the bathroom the way he wanted and he even got it all to himself. Cartman used the bathroom in his free time and loved it, however, Wendy notices how unfair it is and tries to make a difference. She shows up to school as transgender to try to show how unfair it is that Cartman got his own bathroom. At the end of the show, it is announced that anybody can use the bathroom they are most comfortable with and everyone is happy except for