The scene I chose is from a popular TV show called How I Met Your Mother. This show goes with gender stereotypes and goes against gender stereotypes. The show is about a group of friends, Lily and Marshall are a dating/married couple, Barney the "single gamer", Robin a Canadian tomboy and Ted the main character, who is a hopeless romantic trying to find true love in New York. City. Ted, in the last two episodes, meets a girl and she becomes his girlfriend. Meanwhile, he is spending all his time with her, Lily and Marshall have planned a romantic weekend leaving Barney and Robin to hang out, they decide to have a "bro" date. Robin and Barney do typical boy things, like; smoking cigars, playing laser tag, and teasing the other friends for having an affair, especially Ted. They make jokes like, "Ted is too busy in a lesbian relationship" and "Ted can't drink because she's pregnant, because she's a girl." However, Barney praises Robin for being a great brother. Robin is a gun enthusiast, a hockey-loving Canadian and a cigar expert. Throughout the series, Ted searches for love while his friends tease him, and Robin continually receives praise for her tomboyish ways. The show uses gender stereotypes for comedy, showing that it is more socially acceptable for a woman to have more masculine hobbies, but a man cannot have "feminine" qualities without being scolded by his friends. My goal is to examine these studies to determine whether males and females are socially reprimanded for being “sissy” and “tomboy” at equal levels, or whether their gender makes a difference in the severity of the consequences for not being the norm. The purpose of the first study was to do two things. To demonstrate a technology...... middle of paper......unit this could be the reason why sissies are discouraged in society and have emotional outbursts. Society is discouraging their sensitive emotions and unique tendencies, making them social outcasts. While tomboys are continually encouraged to have these masculine characteristics. My theory is that tomboys don't grow up their own way, but are more socially accepted as their traits become more valued by their peers as they get older. Causing them to behave better and support the people around them because they are accepted. Sissies don't experience this feeling of acceptance because their peers still have negative feelings towards them even after they become adults, like the adults in the survey. These studies support and prove that adults, children and even teachers think differently about these two and prefer tomboys to sissies.