BROmance?

If any of you ladies out there have ever watched Bromance, you probably know why I watch it. A bunch of hot guys competing for Brody's (hottie from the hit show The Hills) friendship. I took my time observing this show, and I acutally picked up a lot of sexist outlooks, even though surely unintended.
First of all, the men on the show are all there to win Brody's friendship, and obviously, fame. I had never thought this before, but why are they all men? Can Brody not have a female best friend? Of course not. In today's society, men hang out with men and women hang out with women. That is just socially accepted. They portray this idea in Bromance. Men do manly things, such as drink together, pick up "chicks" and watch football; right?
The idea of the show is to have all of the men compete against each other for Brody's friendship. In order to do so, Brody picks silly tasks for each man to complete in order to prove his loyalty, sense of humor, honesty, or some other wonderful trait like that.
In watching and observing the re-runs of the show. I have noticed that nearly all of these competitions are MASCULINE. They vary from picking up girls on the street, to drinking the most, to who is the strongest. The one that really caught my eye was last weeks episode. It involved the "friends" dressing up in a fashion line that they believed Brody created. Brody, of course, made them look absolutely ridiculous (society's opinion). They were dressed up in tight jeans and pink tank tops. Now i thought to myself; why is this ridiculous...? OH YEAH, because society wants men to wear baggy clothes and be REAL MEN. They were all so embarrased to wear the outfit, but no one said anything to Brody about it because they did not want to hurt his feelings or upset him. Therefore, failing the test of honesty. Truly though, if there were no gender roles in society, would the men have minded wearing the "feminine" clothes?

"I'll make a man outta you."

So I was sitting at home looking through my very large collection of Disney movies, when I came across one of my personal favorites; Mulan.
In Walt Disney's animated feature Mulan, a young girl is torn between her moral and expected responsibilites and her love for her father. Mulan wants gain respect for her family, however she fails the traditional test to be a perfect wife. Her father is called back into war, but still suffers from battle wounds. He is unable to fight and survive, so Mulan pretends to be a man in order to save her father and get respect and honor for her family.
Wen the heroin's grandmother first sees the young man (the general that Mulan trains with) enter Mulan's house, she affirms what she (the audience?) sees as Mulan's real victory, which is catching a man, and yells out: "Sign me up for the next war!"
By embracing a masculine view of war, Mulan cancels out any rupturing of traditional gender roles.
Men are expected to be strong and go to battle. Women are exptected to stay home and play the role of a housewife. This traditional gender discrimination is portrayed clearly through many of Walt Disney's movies. Think with me now...
Snow White - "Some day my prince will come..." playing off of the stereotype that every woman needs a man in her life to be happy. Sorry to break it to you boys, but that is not true.
"Whistle while you work..." Alright, so this is plainly portraying that women can clean and do housework while the dwarves (a.k.a men) are out making the money.
Sleeping Beauty - "Once upon a dream..." again, playing off of the fact that women need men. She sleeps until her true love's first kiss. Then she can go home and have babies and clean the palace right?
I think you can get the basic point here. Disney tends to have a pattern of women playing certain roles in society, and sort of puts females "in their place".
Even in Mulan, who showed spirit, intellectual curiosity, or disregard for authority, suffered and inevitably accepted male control.