Gender norms

Rating: 8/10 (13 May 2020)

The film "She is a man" seemed to me very interesting in terms of sociological context. This film shows the gender norms of our time. The main character Viola loves to play football, but no one takes her seriously. She has to change school and pretend to be a boy in order to get into the football team. The main character, despite the fact that the girl not allowed to play in the men's sport team, proves the opposite. However, in the movie there are the biased attitude of girls to sports, the female half can get a success.
In our life, there are a lot of stereotypes regarding sports. Men's football is very developed and popular in the world, but no one knows about women's, or mixed football, which does not exist at all. People are used to seeing only men in a team, fewer women in this type of activity. The film conveys to the audience that everyone can do their favorite thing, despite all the difficulties. There, Viola has many difficulties on the way to her dream. All her friends, family, football coach were against her dreams. Her mother tried to make the main character wear dresses and heels, to be more feminine. The heroine reacted negatively to this.
Other characters in the film also conveyed social implications. Viola was in love with Duke. He is her roommate. He is a typical footbal player, who also believes that girls have no place in football. He is in love with another girl who wears dresses and heels. The film shows us two different types of girls: The first type is girls who behave feminine and their behavior seems normal. The second type is Viola, who, on the contrary, loves boyish sport and dresses like a boy.
The film is good and interesting. Despite the ease of the film, it has a semantic implication. It tells all people that despite stereotypes, everyone can and should do what they love. Men can dance ballet, and girls can box. The main thing is that a person should have a desire. If someone will show to other people that he or she can do it well, others on this example will begin to believe and be inspired and they will go against stereotypes.
The film shows a lot of norms: gender norms, norms of clothes, norms of behavior, family values, health standards. It shows people's ideas of how girls and boys should behave, how to dress, how to talk and even what to do in life.