For my blog on different gender roles I chose to write about the movie The Stepford Wives because I thought that it would fit perfectly with the topic of gender roles. At the beginning of the movie the family that moves into the gated community of Stepford the mom is a successful author and is making most of the family income. When they get to Beford everything changes. The community is really messed up and hiding a major secret. The men in the community all have perfect trophy wives that do nothing but serve them and make them happy. They are basically their servants but they don't care. There is only one normal wife living in the community other then the new one that just moved it. The two normal wives start thinking something is going on, while their husbands are completely clueless. Later on in the story the author starts acting different and her friend notices. She starts doing everything like the housework, taking care of the kids, grocery shopping, and other tasks that the "typical housewife" does. In the end it turns out that the "leader" of the community replaced all the real wives with robots because she believed they should all be pefrect like her, she had even made her husband a "perfect" one by making it a robot. Whenever I think of gender roles and stereotypes for them I think of this movie because it had the typical shovanistic views of women and what a lot of counrtries were like and some still are.
http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi3119842073/
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The Stepford Wives. Frank Oz, Ira Levin, Paul Rudnick. Paramount Pictures, 2004.
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