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  1. Hi, my name is Cindy and
  2. this is my presentation on gender and youth tv.
  3. So the show, one of the shows that I analyzed was Arthur.
  4. You probably have heard of it. It's on PBS kids and it's popular.
  5. Um
  6. The show has been running for about 25 years and it first aired September 2,
  7. 1996 and recently aired its last episode.
  8. I watched it with my younger cousin.
  9. And the theme of the show is about an eight year old boy named Arthur
  10. growing up in his neighborhood with his friends
  11. and family and solving everyday problems together.
  12. Many of the episodes can be found on Youtube for free as well as just watching it on tv.
  13. The show aired a number of episodes that
  14. tackled the harmful effects of gender stereotyping.
  15. Um just to name two. There are other, there are more episodes that talk about
  16. gender issues, but just to name a few.
  17. Um one is called Arthur Unravels and pretty much a summary of the episode is
  18. he learns how to knit and
  19. from his grandmother and he becomes passionate about knitting.
  20. Um but then he's embarrassed
  21. about being teased for enjoying a grandma activity.
  22. And one of his friends,
  23. he finds out one of his friends is also hiding the fact that he nets
  24. and by the end of the episode, him and his friends just learned that hobbies
  25. like knitting are not strictly for boys or girls. It's
  26. they're just general hobbies
  27. that anyone can enjoy.
  28. Another episode
  29. that gave an example of gender tackling gender stereotyping would be
  30. an earlier episode called francine's bad hair day and in this episode
  31. it tackles the idea that girls have to look
  32. act and dress up in certain ways to be approved
  33. by society.
  34. And pretty much in the episode,
  35. francine who's one of Arthur's friends um goes to
  36. picture day and her friends peer pressure her to
  37. dress up in a dress and bows and pretty much just look like the rest of them to be
  38. oh
  39. a well dressed girl.
  40. But by the end of the episode,
  41. francine pretty much
  42. concludes that she'd rather just
  43. dress the way that she wants to dress and go
  44. and play sports with boys and not worry about being
  45. having mud on her shirt or her hair being
  46. a little messy
  47. and she
  48. gets her picture taken and she's happy with it because it's authentically her.
  49. So the conclusion stands that at the end of the episode that different
  50. expressions are good as long as they're authentically used no matter the gender
  51. for the topic of intersectionality.
  52. This show usually has targeted each social issue,
  53. one at a time from what I've noticed.
  54. And um so not really overlapping different social issues.
  55. It's usually just like this episode is on race or this episode is on
  56. um
  57. gender
  58. not really
  59. mixing
  60. them within an episode when it comes to race. Specifically, a lot of shows on PBS.
  61. Kids feature animal characters, so I rarely saw it come up through
  62. the episodes.
  63. I noticed a trend of introducing homosexual relationships though, for example,
  64. in one of the episodes of Arthur,
  65. the proud family
  66. louder and prouder,
  67. I believe it's called, which is on Disney Plus
  68. steven's Universe and other shows on Cartoon Network
  69. um where they're just kind of
  70. normalizing it and there are a number of episodes I watched as
  71. a proud family and Arthur where
  72. the characters debunked stereotypes about certain religious
  73. culture,
  74. religions and cultures and explain the truth from the original perspective.
  75. Uh for example, and when are the episode?
  76. They had an exchange student from Africa and a lot of the students projected
  77. what they believed about Africa and that student was able to
  78. explain what it's actually like
  79. in his country, I believe it was Cameroon. Um
  80. and in
  81. the proud family,
  82. they had a cultural cultural exchange episode where
  83. the main character was able to spend time
  84. with one of the characters who was muslim during Ramadan and they were able to like
  85. um I learned from that experience by being immersed
  86. these shows
  87. do explore the theme around
  88. how if you fit into society standards, for example,
  89. by being straight then it will be easier to receive some sort of respect.
  90. Therefore power in your community.
  91. Thinking critically.
  92. I think what would help you think critically about
  93. these messages is asking them questions about the topics that
  94. these shows bring up rather than just
  95. watching them for entertainment purposes only.
  96. I believe that conversations opened the door to
  97. make connections between the material that's in front
  98. of them about these social issues and how these topics show up in their daily life.
  99. Thank you.