First of all is the active/passive. Robert can go to a party with his friend or cheat on his wife with another female. He can decide everything without fear and doubt. For example, it seems like divorce to his wife or not is his own choice. He don't have to discuss with his wife at all. On the other hand, his wife has to lie to him in order to go to a party. However, she has to pretend single to her friend. She lies to both side people around her because she cannot tell the truth. In some case, the passive female uses lie to pretend active. Second is the public/private. I think at this point, we can see the private side from Dana's lie. The truth cannot be shown in public,no matter she goes to a party or her marrige. The third is logical/emotional. Actually from the whole video, the ladies wants to be active and logical. However, the fact is they just pretends to do that. For example, man is necessary to open a jar because man is stronger. But the ladies in the party don't want a man to appear. They pretend they can open the jar. But the result is what they only can do is to break the jar. That is their emotional part. The ambivance forces them to pretend logical and active. Thus, they go to a bar to tease a man. The fourth is the sexual subject/sexual objective. I think this part is obvious in that Robert goes a bar with his MALE friends. The only female is described greedy on food and fat. Also, Robert can threaten his mistress wantonly. It expresses that the sexual subjectivity of Cleveland.
I think the additional gender stereotype not addressed in the chapter might be the four steretypes within one gender. The book talks about the gender four stereotype between men and women. But we can see the four stereotypes within one gender as well. In the video, we can see that Rolow, the kid of Robert dominates among their friends. He seems active, private, logical among his boy friends. Compares with Rolow, the other kids seem passive, private, and emotional. The other example is Dana seems like active, public and logical within her female friends. I think this probably another issue WITHIN genders beside BETWEEN genders.
I kinda disagree with your last sentence. Give it a try, thinking about the stereotypes between genders, because that's not something we're really encouraged to do, and so it's more difficult to sustain our attention to it. Second, your blog would benefit from some kind of introductory paragraph that contextualizes your post. This one begins out of nowhere; it took me awhile to figure out what you were talking about!
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