Blog 8: Male Stereotypes

In the entertainment industry males have a few different stereotypes that are shown in films, commercials, and advertisements. Here is my list of films of films and commercials in which males are stereotyped:

1. Miller Lite Brewing Company Commercials
2. Hitch ( Movie)
3. American Pie ( Movie)
4. Old Spice Body Spray Commercials
5. Wedding Crashers ( Movie)

These are five movies and commercials that stood out to me because they stereotype men in the typical way. In the Miller Lite commercials, it shows a large African American man who is very muscular and handsome talking to this other man who doesn't have the same figure or confidence as this man and he is telling him to be "a man". These commercials try to portray a typical "mans man" type of attitude. Being tough, and being a ladies man is the way to go, and by drinking beer that is the way you'll get it done. It's like the whole attitude of being that wild child tough guy that does not want to settle down and just party and have fun. The Miller Lite commercials honestly disgust me. The Old Spice Body Spray commercials are along the same lines. It's a muscular African American man pretty much destroying things like Godzilla and showing how Old Spice gives you that manly edge. Both commercials are portraying the same thing in the sense that they are trying to show men as superior and tough. In the films American Pie, Wedding Crashers, and Hitch, all the actors were "players" before they meet great women and settled down with them. American Pie is a little bit different because it was a group of guy friends and one of the guys feel in love but the others were pretty much players and had no visions of getting married anytime soon. I felt like Hitch and Wedding Crashers were good in the sense that it starts off by showing these men who just take advantage of girls and have fun, but it ends up showing how these men fall in love and change their lives.

I don't think it's right that we stereotype men as players and party men. The fact of the matter though, is some men are and some men aren't. It's not true in every case, but I feel that entertainment industry tries to portray an image of men that makes women stereotype them. As females, we should not stereotype men, or anyone for that fact, but I think stereotyping is a natural thing and something that will always be there.