Hollyoaks

Feminism views on Hollyoaks

In previous blog i looked at feminism and how it has changed the role of women in today's society. I will watch an episode of the channel 4 TV show Hollyoaks. The TV show shows allot of feminism as most of the women characters in the show equality or even power of the male roles. 

Nancy Hayton, the role portrayed by Jessica Fox is a ideal example of a female feminist. from the episode i watched i noticed that the character 'Nancy' is shown as a strong, free willed person who isn't pushed around. Nancy's role in the episode is a Landlady, from personal knowledge i know that she once was a barmaid at the same pub. From this i know that she is determined to have a higher power over not only males but from her characteristic's everyone else. In the episode she is has a argument with a male role over money for the tenancy. Her tough personality manages to get the money of the male in a later episode. This shows that not only female's can have a higher achy job than some of the male characters in the show, if you were to step back 20-30 years we would never see a woman in a job status like her's. All managerial jobs like a Landlord/Lady were given to the male characters as it was seen a natural because men had the best jobs in those day's. People see her character as 'too masculine', this straight away is misogynistic. Feminism has took a big hit to the UK society, but not enough to change some people's views and the fact that her role is seen as a male's characteristics isn't right.    

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