Having focused on various themes and subject in elementary and highschool English lessons, I have never done the theme "gender" and doing it this year made me think that we should have done this theme before, not in elementary school but highschool possibly. Not doing these kinds of themes, I also have not seen documentary films such as the "Tough Guise" by Jackson Katz. Thinking that it is nonsense and a waste of time at first sight, the movie seemed reasonable afterwards. This movie helped me realize the secret sexist messages tried to be given to the viewers in many movies. These movies that were given as examples included many of them that I have watched and hav not noticed any strange thing. I did not know that the size and muscularity of the toys such as ActionMAN or many various hero's has increased whereas the size of Barbies and many other girl toys has decreased and they have gotten more fragile.
I am really shocked that this theme isn't covered in high school, as its importance is enormous. I'm happy you found it useful.
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