Gender Roles In Mercha And Talia's Family

In this movie, two families identified by their mother’s, Mercha and Talia, live in their own summer homes in Argentina’s scorching sun and tropical rain. This film focuses on social statuses and gender roles in the family as well as the servants that work for them. The children represent the future and cultural descendants of Mercha’s and Talia’s family and have certain expectations for their specific genders. In the beginning of the story, daughters of Mercha shop for clothes for the boys while the boys played in the streets. Later on, the boys went out hunting and spending their time having fun like speaking to fans while the girls usually stayed at home helping the mom with chores or laying around with the mother. This shows that males and females have been placed in a category by socializing agents like their family, friends, and parents and were shown what their gender was expected to do. The opening scenes of when Mercha carried wine glasses and slips on the ground cutting herself, shows how women were viewed by others as material wealth in family as only her children raised an alarm and took her to the hospital. Mecha hints that the “native servants” are stealing the towels as lucia hands her a towel. To be a woman in Mecha’s society is rough but to be an Amerindian and a woman, even all the white women had no problem insulting servants like Isabel that were both. This film takes the woman’s point of view and enhancing it by making the men lazier than females as Mercha’s husband laid around all day and did not work. This shows that even through so much hard work and efforts can be made by females, socializing agents have forced many people into gender stereotypes but in these two families, the moms run the family and the fathers either do not care or he is left out of most of the scenes in the film. Thomas Morin SOC 331 A: Latin American Society and Culture through Cinema Homework Gender Roles Film: “Y Tu Mama Tambien” (2002, Alfonso Cuaron) In this movie, Julio and Tenoch, around 18 years old, are constantly raging with hormones, friendships and a journey to maturing. …show more content…
During the summer, the two friends are carefree and sleep with a older women while their girlfriends travel abroad. Tenoch’s sister has a political science major but delivered clothes food and medicine for friends and family. Men run the country and organizations but in this movie are also portrayed as the the naughty adults who sleep with many women. At the wedding of officials of their country, the bride represented as a princess and tons of male body guards (sense of security) were present in order to secure the place for the president to attend the event. Women are viewed as possessions for the purpose of beauty but lust of the two boys. Luisa, a certified dental technician didn 't want to go to school but wanted to travel. Juno, her husband the writer, ends up having sex with another woman and so she decides to go to the beach with Julio and Tenoch. She never felt as comfortable with Juno as she felt with the two men. Luisa’s thought said that women never cheat unless they go to Italy and girls like the “Queen” in the movie are pretty. She also suspect the two guys to see her naked in a hotel room and then jack off as a common assumption that all boys do this. Luisa made a pact with the two to do everything including rules about chores and stuff while they 're at the beach in order to keep her from not running away from them. She controlled their lust and the way they were to act around her as they couldn’t come close to her if she told them not too and she made them understand that they were to do the work if any was to be done. She realizes that she can make them take her to a beach if she wanted them too in exchange for their drive for sexual activities. When the men played sports on the beach, Luisa and other