Gender Stereotypes In Cartoons

dominant in televised cartoons since the history of televised cartoons debuted. Cartoons are increasing the gender differences. Actually, the belief of “boys are rough and sturdy while girls are fragile and defenseless” is a misconceived belief promoted through cartoons. A cartoonist knows that televised cartoons are an essential source to exercise power over the mind and heart of people, so he or she use it as their resource to promote their idea which sometimes could be unconstructive just like “Stereotypes on women”.

Dr. Spicher and Dr. Hudak at American Physical Association (APA) News release, selected 118 cartoons for research and they found that all cartoons had male characters in excess. Male characters were shown as dominant, strong, powerful and aggressive. The researchers also concluded that male characters are not only portrayed powerful and sturdy but female characters are shown as very fragile and underrepresented. Both researcher claimed “These findings are disappointingly consistent with past research showing that the portrayal of gender roles on televised cartoons in general, has been stereotypic, and that female characters have remained under-represented”.

Alternatively, young children characterize televised cartoons as their source of entertainment and their inspiration sometimes. And children

This sometimes also leads to inferiority complex in females. A sense of inferiority complex further affects the future lives of female children. They always consider themselves weak and inferior to men. It also effects their future education where they think that they cannot compete with males. The same also happens in the job market as well. A sense of male dominancy in males also creates a lot of other problems as well. It can cause violence against women including emotional and physical