Racial Gender Stereotypes Portrayed in Film

After recognizing the undeniably amount of stereotypical roles used to portray the gender biases, between men and women, in hollywood films this semester, I have learned that Hollywood created these offensive roles for the sole purpose of entertainment. Without doing much research at all, Hollywood will do whatever it takes to produce a movie with these stereotypical roles. For this last blog, I am going to recognize the common misconception of “The Crazy Cat Lady”. From what Hollywood has taught us, the “crazy cat lady” is portrayed as an unmarried, elder women, who shelters a numerous amount of cats so she isn’t “alone”. This character usually lives alone, with no other people, because she is deemed as the socially awkward, weird lady with several cats. An example of this role is Kathleen Turner in Romancing the Stone. Although this woman is portrayed one way doesn’t mean this is the actual portrayal of a realistic cat lady. As someone who owns two cats and knows people who own two