Quote from: charlie on November 13, 2012, 12:08:49 PM
Gaston from Beauty and the Beast is the perfect example of a manly man. Someone do it! jk 
Gaston has biceps to spare if anyone wants them (Me too actually). He said it in a song!
That's actually a pretty good example- I had forgotten about gaston- although instead of being totally ridiculous Gaston just ends up coming accross like an ->-bleeped-<-. Whereas, say, Johnny Bravo (to use another cartoon character) doesn't come accross as espicially bad natured, just really silly. I remember a scene where his mother asked him to hold underwear she was buying in a department store so she could go to the bathroom. Johnny Bravo tried to object but his mother insisted so he ended up awkwardly explaining that he was "
Just holding them" to everyone who walked by. Related stereotype is the "bro dude" stereotype in more recent times.
The best example of something like this coming from the female side is Elle from legally blond, which is interesting because her entire character is basically either supporting or subverting gender stereotypes. The movie starts off showing Elle getting dressed, putting on make up, etc... basically "performing femininity" in a way that is usually used to suggest that a character is fake/artificial/an airhead, roughly the same way trans women are usually portrayed actually. But then it turns out that she actually hard working, intelligent, etc and she has just applied these traits to things like fashion design in the past. Then the climatic scene at the end Elle walks into a court room in a pink dress ready to defend her client and the message is that, rather than being artificial, this who Elle is and when she is the most authentic, effective, and genuine. Rather than being effective in spite of it, she's effective
because of it.
If you watch the "the bend and snap" on youtube one thing you'll see is a lot of people saying "lol girls don't ever try this" and stuff like that. What people are missing is that they're taking something women actually do and exaggerating it to the point that it's ridiculous (kind of like the whole rest of the movie).
Of course no one would try to do what they're doing in the movie and of course flipping one's hair is a flirty thing many women do even subconsciously.
