GI Joe As A Role Model

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of the male/female body and both figures characteristics promote the stereotypical actions of how one should act as a member of that gender. Each day of his life a young boy is learning and forming the ideals he will follow later in life. The appearance of a tall, perfectly proportional, and muscular figure molds a young boy’s belief of what the perfect man should look like. The same characteristic is true about the actions that GI Joe’s were expected to carry out. GI Joe’s were fearless, brave men whose mission in life was violence. When young boys played with these figures, this was usually the common role their concocted scenes would fall under. Violence and death, sounds like a pretty bad principle to instill in the minds of young boys. If one thinks about the general stereotype of the census we see that men have always been forced into these enduring roles.
Even today the two characteristics demonstrated by GI Joe are prevalent. As each day progresses these ...

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