Do you see it?

The topic gender roles in it is almost endless in research and information, so what makes such a well-known issue still active and publicly unknown? What people classify as a gender role, is common sense to one person, why? because we see it all the time. I might relate the answer to that to a well-known series such as Boy Meets World. The entire series from their first day of middle school to the wedding of Cory and Topanga is filled with stereotypical roles men and women are played out to be. I must admit there are a few twists to the normal roles, but slight and not by much. For my paper, I would have loved to interview the two creators of the show series, April Kelly and Michael Jacobs. Unfortunately, this interview process was a challenge, and I was unable to interview them or main actor Ben Savage like I had hoped. When I started thinking about what to write for the blog, I was going to write everything I could have asked and possible outcomes, but then it hit me. My writing center helper was kind of my interviewee. As he edited he’d ask my specific questions on the show, and I’d answer using research I found and he was completely shocked. He helped me support my thesis and he didn’t even realize it. He had no idea of the gender roles in Boy Meets World, or the few twists at all, and then I realized I, I hadn’t seen them all either at first. It took me rewatching a few of the episodes to actually pick up on some roles, we always just saw as human nature.
When I chose to write about Boy Meets World, I knew it had gender roles so I wrote the out and got info about them. Once I had somewhat of background knowledge of sex roles in society, rewatching the shows I was completely able to pick out more complex ones. So I guess my editor and myself, are my primary first hand knowledge of how gender roles aren’t even perceived as stereotypes to many people, until pointed out or more informed of the case. People in our society are so use to and comfortable seeing actors play out roles, that they don’t see as stereotypically because that’s how a great majority is perceived. But the keyword in all that is perceived, what we think people are supposed to do, say look like, or act. So anyone off that outline is seen as weird, or outcast, when in fact they are normal, not something they are supposed to be.