Sexuality Stereotyping - Holly Stone

Sexuality Stereotyping

In our short-film, our main character is being stereotypically bullied as a lesbian. Although the plot of our story proves that this statement is  false, we still intend to use some resources of what makes a stereotype of a lesbian with our main character in order to keep the audience intrigued and surprise them later on. 

The best way to represent the stereotypical ideas is by using examples of lesbian women, study their hairstyle, body language, voice, clothing and generalize their appearance in order to obtain an idea of how to achieve the same in our short film using Misc en scene. 

1. Ellen De Generes 

Ellen is an American Idol judge and is well known to be a 'gay icon'. She also presents traits of a stereotypical lesbian as seen on the left. Below are where these stereotypes place;

1. Typically lesbians are stereotyped to have short hair - which many may refer too as being masculine. 

2. Her clothing/dress sense is formal/smart yet if compared to other celebrity women, appears to once again be more of a masculine style. Many heterosexual celebrities/judges wear expensive dresses and show off their curves - embracing the female body if anything.

3. Her slouching body posture would be frowned upon as rather masculine too, stereotypically heterosexual women are upright with their posture, sit with their back up and legs crossed, saving their dignity.


How we intend to use the lesbian stereotype for our main character is by costume and make-up (Misc en scene). Below are the ideas we have in mind;

• Although our main actor does not have short hair , we intend to use hair gel/hair spray and tie her hair back into a tight ponytail, leaving no hair on her face. 

• Her clothing will simply vary between football kit and masculine clothes. Masculine clothes being baggy jeans, over-sized t-shirts and hoodies. We may possibly include tracksuit bottoms and trainers too, to raise the masculinity of her costume.

• She will wear no makeup to begin with. However we intend this to change towards the end,