My responce on Gender

My response to gender/sex in media

 

Gender and sex been interpreted differently in many forms throughout various films and video games in terms of representation, one important aspect between Gender and Sex is their differences which a lot of people ignore, Sex being the biological and physical side of gender which is determined at birth and develops different characteristics later in life, Gender on the other hand is one’s inner sexual feelings.

A lot of old action films tends use a clichéd theme where the woman is in peril and the man being the rescuer, this context represents that all woman are prone to danger and cannot survive without the aid of men. The very early Doctor Who series demonstrates this particularly well with the female characters like Barbra, Polly and especially Victoria who will scream at almost anything scary that comes her way and hide into the nearest male character like Ian, Ben, Jamie or the Doctor.

Victoria Screaming from the story
The Ice Warriors

The Ice Warriors is an example of women being attempted at being saved as Victoria is captured and taken hostage by the warriors and the men who try to be heroic end being killed or wounded, perhaps this story shows men that being heroic to save the girl isn’t the best idea? Jamie being his reckless self certainly shows that when getting wounded.

 

 

 

 

 

 

There are some films that while they sexualise the female figure they use it as a weapon to use men, the film series Species does just this by the main female humanoid alien hunting men to breed with and then killing to create a baby, the context here in my opinion makes the sexualisation of women turntables with the traditional male gaze by adding fear to the male audience.