Fried Green Tomatoes-Portrayal of Women

Gender and Popular Culture
- The Portrayal of Women in Fried Green Tomatoes and Other Films
Personal thoughts about the subject
In our class about gender and popular culture, most discussions, either they dealt with literature, music or television, ended up with the conclusion that women are always being looked down upon, that we are being oppressed, that soceity is built by men for men, on their premises, and that women have to play by the rules set up by men. Very often, it was said that men and women are theoretically identical and that the differences between us have developed due t…