Gender presented through the media

Ouran High School Host Club

The anime TV series Ouran High School Host Club is an example of gender representation in the media as the main character Haruhi Fujioka explains that she views gender as 'not something that you should judge people on, but something that you should recognise as a part of them', meaning that we shouldn't stereotype genders as they don't describe what kind of person you are.

In the show, Haruhi is a girl who chooses not to design her looks on what people would describe as feminine and instead dresses in whatever she feels like. She also explains that she has short hair as she got something stuck in it and it was just easier to have it all cut off. The way the characters act is not how you would assume people of that gender would act either, showing that the stereotypes of genders are incorrect and give a wrong impression of how we should treat people because of them.