Gender Story 6Şeyma Nur GÖK

Seda ASİL

Sinem Elif ASAR

Ezgi UZUNBACAK

Muhammet Şamil YILMAZ

Hilal Derya KILIÇ

Toy Story 3’s Effect on Children’s

Development of Gender Role

Outline

Study Rationale

Introduction of Toy Story 3

Top 8 Gender Stereotype in Toy Story 3

Introduction of the Brochure

● In order to analyze gender representations in Toy Story 3, firstly we have to

understand what gender is. According to Oxford dictionary: “Gender (noun) :

The state of being male or female (typically used with reference to social and

cultural differences rather than biological ones)

● Gender stereotype is the overgeneralizations about the features and the

characteristics of the whole group of one gender. Therefore, the individuals feel

that they have to act according to the rules even if they are abusive and

misleading. That is why gender-stereotyping is wrong.

● Children could learn the gender-stereotyping from everyone and everything

around them like their parents, siblings, relatives, books, movies, commercials

etc.

● Unfortunately, children meet the media on their early years and so they expose the

gender-stereotyping via media tools mostly during their life

● It affects their developmental areas like socio-emotional development, language

development and cognitive development. For instance, gender stereotyping decrease

children’s self-esteem and self-confidence or it may lead to children gain wrong

vocabulary items like ‘throwing like a girl’ or children may have trouble with de-

construction such as ‘sense of beauty’

● Children see these kinds of examples via different kinds of media tools again and

again, so these patterns could be imbedded in their subconscious.

● We examined the effects of different media tools in terms of gender-

stereotyping like story books, magazines, ads, movies, cartoons. We

collected many data about them but we decided to one animation movie

‘Toy Story 3’ because this movie includes common characters which most

of children know well like Barbie and Ken. Also, although most of the

parents think that these characters are so innocent and harmless for their

children, we have different examples of gender-stereotyping in the movie.

For example, Wilson claims that "Toy Story 3" is full of negative

female stereotypes that can give the wrong impression about gender

roles. She writes that the mother in the movie is depicted as

"nagging," while Barbie is shown as "over emotional" and "hyper-

feminine." Her packaged partner in crime, Ken, is painted as a

"closeted gay fashionista" who is constantly teased.

Introduction of Toy Story 3

● Pixar Animation Studios

● Serial Movie

● The Main Characters of the Movie

● The progress of the movie

● Top 8 Gender Stereotypes in Toy Story 3

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● Oxford dictionary 2016 edition

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