Gender Stereotypes In Family Guy

Betty Friedan, the well-known activist, and a writer inspired women to join the 1960’s growing movement of women’s rights with one of the utmost influential books in the twentieth century, The Feminine Mystique (Parry, 2010). The typical 1950’s woman was a housewife and mother feeling empty and discontent, and those that worked outside the home were stereotyped unsuited for professional careers and suppressed by men (Parry, 2010). The expectation of a woman was to stay home, have children, wash dishes, focus all their energy and souls on family life. A woman’s life was precariously portrayed in countless 1950 family sitcoms, for example, The Donna Reed Show, Father Knows Best, and Leave it to Beaver.

TV Show Analysis Television is possibly one of the most influential media outlets that we encounter today. The shows that we watch have a lot to do with shaping the culture of the people that watch them. Television often has a way of making the viewers feel as if the shows they are watch are actually real and factual. While it is very useful and entertaining, television can also be harmful if the viewer is unaware of the impact that it can have on them.

Lisa Shaffer once said that much of what we see in pop culture, especially in promoting racial, ethnic, religious, sexual, or other values to different age groups is becoming more progressive than conservative, even though it is just defending traditional social values. In Men’s Men and Women’s Women by Steven Craig, the ideal viewers of publicizing and selling is what makes the “pop” in culture expand. Who could have known that there are other times of the day that advertisements are broadcasted just because of the target audience? Who could have known that advertisements including men and women are created to engage the distinct “statuses” of each gender? What about financial standing?

The movie involves an 11-year-old girl by the name of Riley Anderson who just recently moved from Minnesota to San Francisco, California. The main plot of the story focuses on her five emotions that apparently help “control” her and her actions. The setting of the story is in a large command tower that is located inside of Riley’s head. The names of the emotions coincide with their role in the plot as well as their respective emotion. These consist of Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust.

I Love Lucy I Love Lucy is an older TV show from the 1950’s that is still popular to this day. Before the show, Lucy herself had many things going for her, and those things lead up to her getting the sitcom and becoming one of the most famous actresses of all time. I Love Lucy is about a wacky housewife and her ludicrous adventures with her best friends. Lucy faced many troubles in and out of the show, ranging from her new director making her sob on his first day, to getting pregnant.

ABC Family is the number one ad supported cable network during primetime for its key demographics of women ages 18 to 34. Nielson 's Top 10 reports that ABC is also one of the top 10 Prime Broadcast Network TV shows. We chose to advertise through ABC Family because their target demographic and ours coincide. According to AdWeek, women between the ages of 14 and 29 are the focus of ABC 's current market (Castillo, 2015). After looking into ABC 's TV schedule and show times, the agency decided that the best time to run an ad would be Monday through Wednesday evenings.

The film is about men. Women are largely absent, or are figures of hatred. The first representation of women is at the first Remaining Men Together meeting. A weeping man laments that his ex-wife just had a baby with her new husband; the subtext is that she is a ‘bitch’ who had dumped him for her own selfish wishes. This is extended to all the women as the group nod sympathetically.

Family Guy is an adult animated sitcom created by American producer, Seth Macfarlane. The show focuses on the Griffins, an elementary family consisting of main protagonists – Peter Griffin, his wife Lois and their three children Chris, Meg, Stewie and their talking dog, Brian. Family Guy is unlike any television sitcom. It was created to break all the social norms and ignores all the laws of most television shows. In the show, we see all the common issues and stereotypes in popular media that most American’s deal with today.

Mad Men Mad Men, a television drama from Matthew Weiner, takes place in the world of advertising during a time where smoking is natural and where segregation defines African-Americans as ‘the help’. While these social issues are used to locate the show within this specific time, the 1960s was a strange and foreign time when the environment in which social interaction was defined by an entirely different set of rules. This television show takes place at Sterling Cooper agency and the main characters are Betty, Draper, Peggy, and Dom. The series presents two women, in particular, who find themselves intertwined with this fast-moving world dominated by male figures.

Get Out is a horror film released earlier this year in February. The film centers on Chris Washington, a black man, and his white girlfriend, Rose Armitage. Rose invites Chris to a weekend trip to meet her parents. When meeting Chris, Rose’s parents are overly accommodating towards Chris and constantly speak about how much they love President Obama and other African-American people. Chris attributes this as awkward attempts to deal with their interracial relationship.