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and opportunity like a boy. Certainly, this rule really marginalizes Gracie from this area.
2. Violence in Gracie movie
Violence is an assault to physique or physical someone. Basically, violence
toward people based on many sources, but one of violence to certain sex is caused by gender differences. And the violence is caused by bias-gender called gender-
related violence. Basically gender-related violence is caused by there is no balancing role in society. There are some kinds and forms that are categorized as
violence:
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a. Sexual harassment Sexual harassment
is one kind of violence that often happens to feminine because gender differences. This violence often happens to feminine because
men’s domination in all aspects of life. In other words, masculine has great power
to control and pressure feminine. In several aspects, sexual harassment is
become a reason to be friend whereas this action only gives disadvantage to woman because they get unpleasant thing from this action.
Gracie as a central feminine character in this movie experiences sexual harassment
from her brother, it is caused her brother considers he is better than Gracie. Her brother thinks that Gracie is only a woman, so he considers he can do
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anything to his sister including convey rough word that makes her shy to her environment.
Figure 1112 In the dinning room Gracie’s brother :
girl lose their brains when their boobs grow
Peter :
and Gracie must be really smart
Gracie’s brothers : ha..ha..ha
The pictures and the dialogues above describes that in the dinning room when they are eating together her brother says “girl lose their brains when their
boobs grow” to Gracie, according to the theoretical framework that who says an vulgar jokes to someone, and she or he feels getting hurt that action can be
classified as sexual harassment. And her brother’s action to her it can be
classified as the sexual harassment because her brother’s word makes Gracie shy
to her environment. It looks at Gracie’s response. She is only silent when her brother says that jokes because she feels shy with her brother’s word.
b. Pornography
Another kind of violence also is experienced by Gracie that is
pornography. Pornography
is classified as violence because someone’s body is
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used to get advantage. In this case Gracie’s body is used as object by Kyle to win the bet with Curt.
Figure 1314 Meeting with Kyle at night club Kyle
: let’s do this. Just relax.
Gracie :
stop
Kyle :
I mean look what are you wearing.
Gracie :
stop…
Kyle :
hey I told you a Bowen can’t go all the way you are way out of your league. Sweetheart. You owe me 20 bucks, Curt.
Curt :
yeah, whatever.
Gracie :
oh my good. The pictures and the dialogues describes that Kyle tries to get sexual
contact with Gracie. Gracie does not know that her body is used as object by Kyle to win the bet. Gracie tries to reject Kyle but when she rejects it, Kyle says You
owe me 20 bucks, Curt. At that time Gracie realizes that her body is used as object by Kyle to win the bet with Curt. According to the theoretical framework that
Kyle’s action toward Gracie is classified as pornography because he tries to use
Gracie’s body for his advantages.
3. Gracie’s efforts to break the problem