Brienne of Tarth- Game of Thrones
television series
A strong message about the difficulties women face in early modern and todays society.
We first see Brienne of Tarth covered in a knights armour from head to toe in her opening scene as she is preparing to fight an "actual knight". It is forbidden for women to fight or even become knights in this period of time so we as the audience know she has purposely covered her feminine features as well as her face as a disguise so she can compete and participate in the battle. This opening scene of Brienne is a very powerful message to the way women are viewed... women in that time were considered weak, useless, property, and even worthless and the men in that society made sure that their view on them was strongly enforced ( as why brienne was not aloud to participate ).
Brienne goes on to fight the other knight and win in hand to hand combat. The king tells brienne to step forward and remove her helmet, when her helmet is removed a crowd of men "Gasps!" as they realise she is a woman as if they are disgusted and mortified and the knight that she had beaten looks incredibly embarrassed. This goes on to prove that the men in that kind of society do not agree with women fighting as it challenges their masculinity. The message that is being shown here is that women are more to what meets the eye, they are heroic, strong, noble, dedicated, and their loyalty has no boundaries. Brienne shows everybody this by defeating every woman's most common enemy, the man. watch
This is an image that displays stereotypical gender roles and how the media heavily uses gender to establish a "role" of one gender in relation to an other. In this imagine the female is portrayed as being a stay at home housewife/ parent that cooks and cleans (as seen in this image). The male is portrayed as being the worker, bread winner who goes to work to provide for his family. This image also shows the woman as being skinny, with blonde hair. This look that the woman has been given was societies expectation of what was the ideal woman also emphasising that women were portrayed more as an object and something to look at rather then somebody who would do something useful in the world and in the society. There is also a secondary meaning to this post and its the children rummaging through the males bag. This goes to show that everybody in the household including the mother rely of the mans hard work as it seems they are looking for something worth of value. This stereotypical ideology that the man has to be the one to provide the income also was a big problem black then as if he didn't bring anything home with him (money) then he would too be judge by society as weak and useless and incapable of looking after his own family. 
