Gender in "She's the Man"

There are many gender issues that you can see when watching the movie "She's The Man" starring Amanda Bynes. The movie itself centers around the idea of a girl having to pretend to be a guy in order to play on a guys high school soccer team because they refused to let her try out as a girl. The coach believed that girls are not capable of playing with boys because they are not as fast, strong, or athletic as boys. However, the girl proved to be as good as the boys and was later able to play with them. This movie displays how attitudes on gender can often influence social behavior. The movie represents the age old mind set of men being more fit than girls and girls not being able to be as good as boys in anything. The coach represents the idea of power and masculinity being bigger and better. The girl represents the feminity and how women are constantly changing the image men have set forth. Throughout the movie the representation of men and women changes. At the beginning men are displayed as the powerful ones who believe women are beneath them and women are displayed as having to follow the rules of men. However, at the end men prove to have an open mind and accept that women are equal and women prove to be powerful in their own ways.