What she lacks in strength and cunning she makes up for in kindness and curves. The female victim is typically delicate, naive, and defenseless, but at the same time sexy and beautiful.
The goal of course is to save humanity, but more often than not there is also an immediate need to rescue a damsel in distress. These action-packed films typically feature a strong, capable, intelligent man fighting a villainous force. Exposure to this, they show, can impact beliefs about gender roles, body esteem, and self-objectification.Ĭonsider, for example, superhero movies like Spider-man or Superman. Although women play a variety of roles in the superhero genre, including helpless maiden and powerful heroine, the female characters all tend to be hypersexualized, from their perfect, voluptuous figures to their sexy, revealing attire. There is an understandable allure to the superhero position - wearing a special uniform (possibly with powerful accessories), saving the world from evil, and let's not forget possessing a wickedly cool special power like x-ray vision or the ability to fly.īut new research by Hillary Pennell and Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz at the University of Missouri suggests that, at least for women, the influence of superheroes is not always positive. What do you want to be when you grow up? When pondering this question, most kids have given at least passing consideration to one fantastical if improbable calling: superhero.
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