Beauty and the Beast teaches harmful stereotypes and suggests gender roles to the public and should not be taught to the general public. Gender Roles In today's society, there is pressure to become a certain ideal of beauty; many types of images, films and media forms tell audiences who and how to appear. Suggestions about gender roles are evident in the film Beauty and the Beast. For example, Belle is a beautiful thin girl, loves to read novels and is not interested in the famous Gaston. Belle is often teased by Gaston for being out of her gender role, because she likes to read and wants to leave her provincial town and seek adventure instead of becoming Gaston's housewife. Gender roles are represented through Gaston, he often tells Belle to stop reading and pay more attention to marriage and her duties as a "housewife", so Gaston is the character who suggests gender roles to Belle. Beauty and the Beast conveys the stereotype, if a young woman (Belle) is pretty and sweet-natured, she can transform a violent man (Beast) into a kind and gentle man.