Today in class we focused on gender and sexuality that are portrayed on
television. We really hit different main points about feminism and focusing on
girl power programming. Girl power is a niche in the TV market and it became
part of the media logic. There are a wide variety of shows that teach girls
about gender identity. These shows showed girls that girls could be different.
It was ok to be different. The different shows portrayed girls as being
realistic, not too girly, it showed girls how to treat their friends and family
appropriately and it showed girls how to treat school the right way.
We all had our favorite TV shows when we were younger, but we never knew
that they were teaching us gender identity and giving us ideas about who we
really are. We can all relate back to that one character that had a huge impact
on our lives and we wanted to be just like them. I connected to a bunch of
shows, but the show that was my absolute favorite was Rocket Power. A lot of
girls, I am sure, can relate to this show along with me. The show was about a
group of kids, 3 boys and 1 girl, who were all best friends and did a bunch of
different activities together. Reggie, who was the girl, was my favorite
character. She was tough, smart, athletic and funny. She could hang with the
guys and that was why I liked her so much. She had a casual style and that was
my favorite part. I hated dressing up when I younger and knowing that Reggie in
Rocket Power never dressed up either made me feel ok about myself. I could hang
with the guys and could even beat half of them in any sport I wanted just like
she could. Even though I never knew I was relating to her on so many different
levels and why, I always knew she was my favorite.
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