Scooby Doo 

By: Shaun Hawkes

The creators of Scooby Doo often portray their characters in very certain, often stereotypical ways, since kids are the main consumers, it can lead them to have definitive ideas of things such as gender roles. Such as Fred the leader, a man who is suppose to always know what to do, be the leader, and be saught after by women. Shagy, The quirky, awkward, lanky, funny, and most of all hungry teenager, basically the stereotypical male teenager. Velma, the brains, shes supposed to be super smart and intellectual, normally taking things very literally, and although in the later shows she has relations with shaggy shes more suppose to be smart, not sexy, which shows young women at a young that there are 2 types of women, you're either fuckable, or invisible. Leading me to Daphnee the conplete opposite, generally portraid as a woman whos not the brightest, who just lust over Fred, and is portraid in a more sexual manner, and when she does figure something out on her own, its generally doing something physical, when as Velmas normally something more mental. And scoob, well scoobs a dog

Im fine with the way there portrait because they dont put too much enfasis on the stereotypes of each character and I also fit in with shagy and am pretty much him, lanky, clumsy, hungry, blonde, I might aswell be apart of the gang. Commercial whise it can make people want to buy scooby snacks, and for women you could say beauty products so they can be pretty like daphnee. You could say its shown in a negative light when scooby and shaggy are scared, as if its telling men that they need to be brave and "man up". They show that curiosity, bravery, friendship, and food are all good things, they might show this because those are all things and values that pretty much everyone wants in there life. This is simply an observation, but all the main characters arent people of colour, which if kids are being taught to be or are becoming racist young, it can cause then to continue on that path since theres no coloured people for then to look up to rather that all white people. It shows men are supposed to be leaders, in charge (in freds case) , and that women are supposed to be smart and ugly, or dumb and ugly. And it teaches that if crime happens to you it will most likely be commited by someone you know or are acquainted with.