Independent Study Introduction

'The Question Is Will You Control That Power..... Or Let It Control You'

Women representation has drastically changed over the past years. It can be argued that females are still seen to be subordinate to males. Xmen 3 directed by Brett Ratner and written by Stan Lee, is a action packed movie that heavily discriminates females in comparison to males. Males have always been depicted to be dominant and active: ' Males have dominant roles in T.V' Media, Gender and Idenity, By David Gauntlett(1). This clearly represents that society at the time was prominantley patriarchal as males are portrayed to be be superioir role models. In contrast females are depicted to be passive, and are represented to be as sex symbols as Laura Mulvey quotes: ' Women are looked at by their looks' (2). This simply means that women are seen to be sex symbols and objectified as a result of this they lack their identity which therfore represents them to be passive objects in the society we are living in. This essay will be how females are seen to be inferioir through their powers and roles given in the text ' X Men 3'.