Overcoming the Odds
Women are viewed different than men are with regards to their gender roles. Women's gender roles in a general sense are the homemaker, mother, wife, and sex object. In movies women are often put into roles that are exceptable to women's rights groups as well as unexceptable. In the movie G.I Jane the main character Jordan who is a woman is selected to participate in a test that would allow a woman to take part in the Navy Seals training program. Until now it was unheard of to see a woman try to pass this rigorous training. Jordan deals with double standard rules at the start, eventually speaking with the captain so she is treated as equally as the rest of the men. She prevails at the end and proves that a woman can complete the training just like a man could. In this movie women are portrayed as not being capable of completing such a rigorous task that is designed for men. Women's rights groups would be supportive of this movie due to Jordan's drive to complete a male's task that nobody thought she could do. In the movie G.I Jane there are a few relationships that play a big role in defining Jordan's character. Her relationship with her boyfriend Royce plays the first part of discrimination against women going into Navy Seal
training. Although he looks at the situation from a loving relationship standpoint he feels that she will not be able to complete the training. Royce looks at Jordan just like all the other men when she arrived at the Navy base. These relationships that Lieutenant encountered along the way made her stronger in the end. She showed a lot of courage by leaving behind her boyfriend Royce to show that she could do this Navy Seal training even though she was singled out. The senator gave Lieutenant O ' Neal this opportunity to help her own social status as the senator. Even the senator being a woman believed that Lieutenant O ' Neal would not make it more than two weeks. Lieutenant O'Neal knew that she had to go through with this to prove to the men that she could do this and for her own personal pride. When the Commander and staff heard that a woman would be attending the Navy seals training they specifically put her in the hardest training which would be the CRT. Lieutenant O ' Neal was out of the training before it even started according to majority of the public and the Navy Seals Commanders. The senator even went as far as to send a photographer to sneak onto the Navy grounds to get some kind of pictures to ruin Lieutenant O'Neals chances of making it any further in the training. The pictures were taken and Lieutenant O'Neal was with other women portraying her as being a lesbian. This conduct was the perfect opportunity to get Jordan out of the Navy Seals. This act with the girls was out of conduct due to the Navy Seals rules. Women's rights groups would likely be in favor of this movie because it involves a woman who does not have much of a chance to survive the Navy Seals training. To most people this training is for males only. She defies all the odds and finishes the training. Lieutenant O ' Neal overcomes many things that wom
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