Take Dragon Tales for example, in this cartoon, the female dragons are girly colors and they still outnumbered by male characters. For this particular show, I have to give them props due to the little girl being a little more knowledgeable than her brother. Her brother is younger though so that would make sense. I would like to see what they would do with two characters of the same age, male and female, to see if they would make the male a smarter character than the female. Something that is shown just with this picture, the male characters are all bigger, stronger, and much wiser. The young pink dragon looks sort of like a "ditz". Many female characters are portrayed as "stupid" or "less knowledgeable than male characters. A lot of the times, the female dragons are undermined by the male dragons. The male characters almost always think they are better than the female characters. What is that showing our children? This shows children the stereotypes we have been trying to get rid of. How can we get rid of these stereotypes if cartoons and other media follow the gender roles and gender stereotypes? If we create shows that have female and male characters more alike and having opposite colors but seen as a variety of colors so they don't see one color and stick to that for each gender. Children have a one-set mind. That's why they can bug you about one thing for hours on end. If they have a mind like this, then we could use this to our advantage by adding a variety of things for children to see so that they don't use one thing to depict a gender or race. Other races than White characters need to be shown more often throughout the media. White people aren't the only people in the world and we need something to show that.
