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In this video a father can be seen dancing with his son on the song 'Let it go' from the movie Frozen. Both father and son are wearing a princess dress. This video went viral because of the outfit they both were wearing. The reason why this is involved with inclusivity is because it shows that no matter your gender or gender identity you should and can wear anything you want. This is however not always the case. The stereotype that plays a part in this is that conventional girls and women clothing aren't meant to be worn by boys and men.

The magazine Vogue did an article about men redefining gender stereotypes in fashion. If we look at clothing lines it is often defined in the boys and girls section. The boys section contains clothing with darker colours and pictures of cars and trains. When you look at the girls section it contains clothing with bright colours, sparkles and words as ‘sweet princess’. The last few years gender neutral clothes are coming up more and more. But men wearing clothing and/or accessories that are perceived as something only meant for women is still relatively uncommon. The famous people in the article of vogue are trying to show that with fashion these days you can express yourself and be who you want to be. This shows that is inclusivity when it comes to this subject matter and it is breaking the stereotype of labeling clothing as solely meant for men or women.

This article shows the story of Charlotte. Charlotte is a seven year old girl who loves to play with legos. The only thing Charlotte doesn’t like is that the lego toys are mostly boy characters with all kinds of jobs. When it comes to the girl characters there are not many lego toys and the girl characters that do exist only have two jobs. Charlotte wrote a letter to the lego company in which she asked if they could make more girl characters because girls like to play with lego too but are barely included. This subject fits in with inclusivity because it shows that toys should be included for everyone. The mentioned stereotype is the fact that certain toys are only meant for boys or girls.

This picture is a photo of the netflix hit serie sex education. In these series there are diffrent stories to follow from people who are straight, bi, lesbian, gay, queer and much more. The characters go explore themselves and each other in different stories. This series is very much involved with inclusivity because it shows all types of people and their life. This is not very common to be shown in a tv series or even regular tv. It breaks the stereotype of only showing heterosexual men and women making love on the tv.

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Queer gym Rotterdam listens to the needs of people who often feel unheard. They start a conversation with them and give people the space to tell their story. The world of sports and mental health is often quite binary and normative. For example, women must be slim and men must be muscular. Beauty ideals are generally based on white cisgender people with no limitations.
Breaking the standard beauty ideals that often prevail in a gym. “That's the most important thing: that when people go to a gym, they don't have to leave a part of themselves at home. That they are allowed to take all parts of themselves with them, in order to extract strength from them. Literally and figuratively"
Queer gym breaks through stereotypes because they give people the space to discover themselves. As mentioned, in the current sports landscape there is mainly room for people who meet the standard. As mentioned, gyms are often experienced as unsafe if you do not meet the beauty ideals.

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In this book George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving grandmother, to his first sexual relationships, this young-adult memoir weaves together the trials and triumphs faced by Black queer boys.
In Johnson's story you are taken on how he always tries to wriggle free from stereotypes. Boys who are not allowed to jump rope, but have to play Football or Basketball. Wearing Cowboy boots is not okay to wear as a boy. Questions that have been asked to him like "Are you coming out of the hood" asked by white fellow students. The great thing is that he still manages to find his way between these stereotypes, but the painful thing is the damage it does to him.

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In 2Doc: Man Made, Sunny Bergman investigates social ideas about masculinity. Is it true that the more testosterone you have, the more manly you are? Can't men be victims? And do men suffer from these ideas?
The documentary is not a criticism of the individual man, but it is Bergman's analysis of the construct masculinity. It is a quest for man's liberation and breaking free of the stereotypes that men should conform to society.
Traditional gender roles have changed. Is the man confused about his role? It is being discussed worldwide. By men who want to escape from the men's Armor, but also by men who prefer to go back to the classic conservative male/female ratio.
Sunny Bergman: “My personal film essay shows that vulnerable emotions such as fear and sadness are still seen as weak and not masculine. It seems that by suppressing emotions, men cannot actually develop into full-fledged human beings who are empathetic towards others.”

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This interview is all about the impact of western colonization on the differences between men and women in Nigeria (and more parts of the African continent).
In the west, we live with this fascionation of bodies, wich results in a stereotype everyone knows: The man, biologically, has a stronger body, so it must be a man’s world. We may have been socialized that way in the west because the parents of our parent’s parents learned en taught that, but in other parts of the world where people live more fluently around eachother, it all seems to be false.
In these parts of Nigeria, men were never learned to rule over women, women were not learned to be passive, and a lot of other stereotypical men-women relations we have in the west all sounded very alien to Oyèrónke Oyèwùmí.
Because these western norms were not taught or socialized the way they were in the west, people started naturally adjusting to the roles they were good at. So if a woman was the best tradepartner of the village, she would just get the acknowledgement of the rest of the town. This is just one example of the fluidity of the people in Nigeria, until colonization came along…
The stereotype Oyèrónke Oyèwùmí is trying to break is: The world should not be nearly as much of a man’s world as it now is.

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Pretty Girl is a song by Clairo that fights against the vision we have of genderroles in our society and against the stereotype of a boyfriend/husband having the overhand or control over a girlfriend/wife, she even sings about how toxic it is for stuff like that to happen.
In the chorus, she is almost stating as if a relationship for a woman is like a job or as if she is working for the boy/man/boyfriend/husband.
Since the 60’s, feminism has been making a lot of big stuff happen if we look at relationships. In the 50’s, the man had the power in the relationship, a stereotype we still see too often. Power and control should work both ways.
The stereotype Clairo is breaking, is the stereotype about the man having power and control in a relationship and that the vision on genderroles we have in the west is sometime a little outdated.