1). How do stereotypes (eg. Girls don’t play soccer, girls should be wanting to get married and have children, boys should be playing soccer not coaching a female soccer team) impact on the lives of the characters in Bend It Like Beckham? Do they affect some of the choices they make?
Stereo types impact on the characters in Bend It Like Beckham because as the example stated they girls shouldn’t be playing soccer they should be wanting to get married and have kids, girls playing soccer is like being against there actual stereo type. And The guy that coaches the girls soccer team is against his stereo type because what the hell is a guy doing coaching a GIRLS soccer team guys are suppose to be playing soccer or coaching a team of guys.
2). Do you think stereotypes like these exist in Australian society? Explain your answer.
Yes because if it didn’t exist in Australian society then our Society would be boring. It would be boring because everyone would be the same nothing different, nothing to talk about, nothing to improve on and nothing to try and change.
3). Think of a time that you have confronted a stereotype. Maybe like the characters in Bend It Like Beckham, people expected you have behave in a different way that you wanted to? Or perhaps you expected someone else to behave differently than they did?
When I played football in under 12s we were playing a team that had a girl in the team and I had to decide if I should go hard at her or not but I thought if she wanted to play football she knew that she would get tackled so I tackled her hard.
4). Where do you think stereotypes come from? Are the media partly responsible?
Yes the media is partly responsible because they promote these different stereotypes. What would go on telly if the media wasn’t responsible for stereotypes NOTHING because they don’t have those peoples images or stereotypes out there.
