I watched the pilot episode for The United States of Tara today, a new show on Showtime, airing also on IMDB, via the online video site, Hulu. It was a rather interesting show because the main character, Tara, has multiple personality disorders. This combined with gender in TV, helps not only show women in their roles in society, but also how differing individuals/personalities of individuals, sharing only the same gender, effect these views in society.
Her default setting is Tara, a mother of two and a loving wife. From my understanding, in order to cope with stress, she changes into the personality best suited to get over whatever trouble she is dealing with, changing into a type of woman better for the job at hand.
For example, one of the first personalities we see is T, a teenaged version of Tara. She changes into this alter ego because she finds her teen daughter is having sex and taking the morning after pill. Where as talking to one's daughter about sex and protection can be hard for most mothers, T, can handle the situation more easily, even if handled it incorrectly (the two teenaged girls in this case find it "fun" to be sexually active). Buck is nest and last of Tara's personalities we see in this episode. Buck is Tara if she were to transform into a very masculine woman. She, to sum things up, acts like what we consider a redneck male. Tara turns into Buck because she sees her daughter assulted by her boyfriend. She cannot act as Tara, but as Buck she can "defend her daughters honor" and beat the daylight out of the boy.
http://www.imdb.com/video/cbs/vi1876820761/
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