Miss Congeniality: Gender

I choose to talk about the movie Miss Congeniality in terms of gender and gender roles. Although we did not watch this movie in class, I feel as though it fits the topic well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8emJD-rR9Cs

The Movie Miss Congeniality is about a female cop that goes undercover as a beauty pageant contestant in order to find a terrorist that threatens the safety of the other girls competing in the competition. It is easy to compare the character and her undercover counter part together. As a cop she feels as though she is not being taken seriously because she is a female. Because of that she stays away from anything feminine related. She acts like a boy, walks like a boy, talks like a boy and even eats like a boy. It is easy to estimate that she beliefs the more like a women she is the less of a cop she will be and the less people will take her serious. Her opinion of beauty pageants is not a good one. She believes that the women who compete in pageants are dramatic and uneducated. That is the opinion of most people I would say. In the end of the movie she ends of saving the day and realizes that by embracing her womanhood people will still take her serious.
I could only imagine how hard is would be to work in a field that is full of mostly men and is known for as a males job. As a women we are always thought of as less than men, we cannot do the same jobs as them or even be as strong. Even if the movie is funny and has a great ending it still leaves the lesson that in order to be successful you but dress up like a girl in your normal girl ways and than people will take you seriously. She had to conform in order to get the job down.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8emJD-rR9Cs