Equality Issues in Movies

Recently in movies more diverse characters have been appearing in movies and have been less offensive stereotypes than in the past although there are still problems including a new problem where people complain that equality is being forced just because new none-white straight male characters are being made.

In the past characters were often offensive stereotypes instead off actual realistic depictions of a living thing.

People from other ethnicities were sometimes played by a white person with offensive face paint and acting in a racist way such as giving Asian characters’ weird speech or black people being portrayed as dumb. There is also white-washing where people of other ethnics are played by a white actor or actress and they are treated as if the character is supposed to be white.

Women in films are often portrayed as just the love interest or damsel in distress as just a prize for the male actors while men are portrayed to be emotionless and mean.

Movies often portray gay men as weirdos or rapists and all gay or bi people are portrayed as if they can be turned straight if they are forced on.

Transgender characters are portrayed as weirdos or dirty people who like being gross.

Pregnant women are portrayed as mean bullies who yell at everyone for no reason.

In marriages men are often portrayed as uncaring goofy guys who don’t think about anyone else while women are usually really mean and too quick to shouting.

Kids and teens are often portrayed as dumb and ungrateful.

People with mental health problems are often the villain and anyone with a disability are usually used as a joke.

In the future movies, will hopefully become more diverse with accurate depictions of situations and not being racist stereotypes but I think these things should stop now, I think the race face paint has stopped happening but all the other problems need to be dealt with by getting accurate actors to portray the characters and making sure the characters are not offensive.