I chose the show Friends. In the
show I do not see any racial diversity however gender diversity is evident. The
show has six people, three of which are women and the other three male. However
all of the six friends are white. There are no other races that are evident.
Looking back even the guest stars are mainly white. Gender diversity is
important because as a T.V. producer you want to make the audience able to
relate. One thing that I have heard is that producers want their audience to
allow themselves to envision themselves as the characters. This would be definitely
hard to do if the characters were all male or all female. For these same reasons
it would be helpful to have a racially diverse group of friends.
Yes there are gender stereotypes.
In one particular episode one male friend had experienced a break up. All the
male friends were gone so that one friend was left to grieve with all the
female friends. The stereotype the episode showed was that during a break up
the women are the ones crying and the men don’t care. They portrayed the women
to eat ice cream and junk food and only watch sappy movies to get over their
break-up. The men in the episode were the ones that got over the girl and
directly went to a strip club after because of how unimportant their
relationship with their girlfriend was.
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