Gender/Society Roles

I know that this after our discussion for the week but felt this was a perfect example of some of the things we talked about in class on Thursday.  I am sitting here watching "Fred: The Movie" on Nickelodeon with my daughter.  It is a rather stupid movie with no real plot that I can see but it does have the classic gender/society roles in it.  There is a beautiful popular girl, who is blond, and a rather geeky, weird girl, who is dark brunette.  The main character, Fred, is totally in love with the blond girl who happens to live next door, and Fred also lives next door to the brunette, who isn't popular because she's wierd.  This is a great example of how society exemplifies blond girls as the most desirable and the ones that everyone wants.  Brunettes are considered geeky or weird and just "the girl next door."  Now of course, in true movie fashion, Fred ends up realizing that the brunette is a pretty cool girl and  proving to the popular crowd that geeks and weirdos can have fun too and...he gets the blond girl.  And to add to everything, Fred's mom is a drunk brunette, another character's mom is a ditzy brunette and the girls that hang out with the popular blond are brunette but are only popular because of her.  Oh, and of course the two main girls both have long hair!