Women have no doubt over the years received a backseat in the society

This had been transpiring ever since ancient times, when women only had a say in the household capacity, which was also limited (Korgen 142). Women engaging in issues of communal development, leadership roles or public affairs got discriminated, and not wholly respected. Some tribes in the world would forcefully choose husbands for girls while at a tender age, without their consultation. The trend also applied in education. Women would only receive education if necessary, but most of the tribes discriminated against women in education. The idea was to keep women subdued in the kitchen, offering them little insight in the issue of education. This is causing the emergence of movies which focuses on the traditional roles of women and their place in society. The movies used in this reaction paper are the movie Bend it Like Beckham and Persepolis.The movies portray women being discriminated under different circumstances and situations. In the movie Bend it Like Beckham, Jess the main character is a teenage young girl who originates from a strict Sikh family. Her passion lies in playing soccer, something considered being for men only (Raul). She wants to play soccer during her adolescent period, instead of concentrating on beauty matters and boys like most girls in her stage. However, the problem arises as his parents would not allow her to play soccer as it would ruin the family name. The first form of sexism lies in the fact that soccer gets associated with only men, and not women. We see that her older sibling is on the brink of getting married after her husband was chosen for her. This is another form of oppression for women. They have no say in their marital life, and they stick to what the parents choose for them. Her mother urges her to drop her behaviors, but being the stubborn teenager she is, Jess does not adhere (Raul). We see women challenging traditional roles when she links up with her friend, Jules, and go to play the final of her game, when it was her sister’s wedding. Jules and her coach encourage her to play soccer, and in the process, Jess likes her coach who is Irish. She cannot tell because she is expected to marry a young Indian man. The same women’s oppression and repression applies in the movie Persepolis, through the transgression of the main character, Marjane. Marjane is rebellious, and a sought of activist. Her first issue is against women wearing the veil. She sees no use of the veil and wonders why the society is keen on enforcing the law (Stuart). An excellent example in the movie is on the fifth scene where a woman was found showing her hair, and she was almost beaten to death. Marjane opts to wear ornaments to school, something that is illegal. The Iranian government is keen on oppressing women against leadership roles, and ironically, so are the male species in the society (Stuart). As much as Marjane family is against the governments ruling, …