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daughter can play football, he realizes that this is football which need power and bravery to do it.
Figure 56 Showing the skills Gracie father
: I’m calling it Gracie. You can’t even beat him. And he
is not on the starting team
Gracie :
dad I can do this
Gracie’s father :
no, you can’t
Gracie :
yes I can
Gracie’s father :
it’s this simple. You are not tough enough. The conversations and pictures describes that Gracie shows her father that
she can play football as well as a man. But her father does not care what she has
done. Although her daughter can play football he judges Gracie from the negative stereotype
of woman which woman is weak and gentle. Her father says that Gracie is not strong enough to be a football player, it proves many parents in
certain culture and country considered woman is not suitable to be a football
player. The situation is experienced Gracie can be classified as gender discrimination
which is caused by the negative stereotype of woman.
c. Marginalization Marginalization
is an elimination process which done by certain people
to another. Marginalization can happen to anyone, but mostly the victim is
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woman. Marginalization toward woman not only happens in work field, it also
happens in household, society, culture, even state.
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Gracie as a major female character marginalize from her family because her father only cares about her boy
Johnnie. When Gracie asks him to coach her, her father says that he only wants to coach Johnnie because he is a boy.
Figure 78 Angry to her father Gracie
: where were you when I was begging you? Where have
you been my entire freakin’ life? Everything’s always been about Johnny. About your boys. You don’t care
about me because I’m not of them.
Gracie’s father : I coached Johnny. Johnny was a natural. Johnny was a
boy The pictures and the dialogues above describe that Gracie really is angry
with her father because his attention only for Johnny, his boy. He never cares about Gracie. In certain cultures boys always get special attention from their
parents. It is caused by gender differences between men and women. According to the theory that marginalization is an elimination process, so her father’s action
can be classified as the elimination process which marginalize his daughter Gracie. Her father’s words “I coached Johnny. Johnny was a boy” as if shows
that Gracie is not the important one, certainly it makes her marginalize.
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The marginalization process also happens to Gracie in society. It happens
when Gracie goes to the Gym, at gym he meets with Colasanti who train men’s football school at her school. Colasanti says that this gym is for boys only. It
means Gracie cannot use this place. This case happens because the gender differences
between man and woman.
Figure 910 In the weigh room Colasanti :
the weigh room doesn’t open till eight. It’s for boys only.
Gracie :
are these written policies or just common practice? The girls’ gym weigh doesn’t have any weights. I can be here early and
nobody would even know.
Colasanti : I’d know.
Gracie :
is that such a burden?
Colasanti : I can’t break rules for you.
Gracie :
fine. The pictures and the dialogues above describe that Gracie experiences
marginalization from this rule that is caused by gender differences. Gracie as a
woman cannot use facilities what the men can use. Coach Colasanti does not permit Gracie to use the weigh room. The situation is experienced by Gracie can
be categorize as gender discrimination that causes marginalization to Gracie,
because the weigh room only for boys not for woman. It means Gracie experiences unfair thing by men’s power. Colasanti’s words “the weigh room
doesn’t open till eight. It’s for boys only” shows that Gracie has no same access
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and opportunity like a boy. Certainly, this rule really marginalizes Gracie from this area.
2. Violence in Gracie movie
