Step Brothers

Step Brothers, starring Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly, is a film about a family of four, a wife, a husband, and two grown kids. Nancy (the wife) and Robert (the husband) met each other at a convention and hit it off immediately. Coincidentally, Nancy had a 39 year old son who still lived at home and Robert had a 40 year old son who still lived at home. They all end up moving in together and all hell breaks loose.
Immediately after Nancy and Brennan (Will Ferrell) move into Robert and Dale's (John C. Reilly) home, Brennan and Dale are at each others throats. Dale feels like Brennan is going to take over his home and change everything he is used to. Dale is always on Brennan's case about obeying the house rules and staying away from his things. Finally Brennan gets tired of being bossed around and messes around with Dale's drum set. They end up getting into a huge physical fight and destroy most of the room. Before too long, they take it outside while all the neighbors are watching them throw each other across the lawn and trying to hit each other with bicycles and anything else they can find. The writers are saying that men are more likely to express their emotions, in this case anger, through physical expression rather than talking out the situation. It appears in many movies and seems to be very common among writers. It can be considered to be what is socially acceptable, similar to Fight Club.

Coach

I'm sure there are a lot of people who have seen the movie Coach Carter which stars Samuel L. Jackson. I have seen it once before when it was released in 2005, but have never thought about the gender issues that are scattered throughout the movie. The relationship between Kenyon and Kyra stood out the most as a gender related issue. Kenyon is a high school student athlete trying to make a future for himself, while Kyra does not know what she wants to do with her life except have a baby and start a family. The writers of the film believe that young women are indecisive about education after high school and are anxious to have kids. I cannot agree with this statement because women are fighting to be treated as equals in the work place. More women these days are working to create futures for themselves by not depending on men to support them and getting respectable jobs. In today's business world, women are bosses, managers, and CEOs, as opposed to many years ago when they were expected to stay home and take care of the family and household.