” Just one of the Guys”
I watched the movie “Just One of the Guys,” the early version of “She’s the Man,” the other night and it hit me on how many movies out there revolve around the transformation of gender identity to gain something that cannot be accomplished in ones own physique. Also, I noticed that those who are transforming their gender are always woman wanting to become a man. In this movie a young woman switches schools, and genders, to get an article published; one in which she believes is not published due to the fact it was submitted by her, a female. The message here seems to be that woman are inadequate of getting what they desire due to the fact that they are insubordinate to the male race. I see it as unfair that directors of these movies only portray woman as the ones who want to change. Why can’t it be a man who longs to become an interior designer or a nurse and decides to change into a woman to be taken seriously? This might seem like a ridiculous example, but you get my point. Its always woman who are feeling like their value in society is being challenged. We as woman are told from a very young age that we can do anything that men can do, but everything in society seems to contradict that. When you look at professions such as firefighters, police officers, lawyers, and engineers there are very few woman in those fields. Why is that? Are woman intimidated by the high numbers of men in those fields? Or do they think that because there are so many men in these professions that it would be too difficult to even try, and if they did try they would be denied because they are female and therefore incompetent? Women should not always be shown as insufficient and should be shown as equal to men, but in today’s culture that doesn’t seem to be something that will be accomplished anytime soon.
