Remember the Titans: Reaffirming Gender ExpectationsDisney's Remember the Titans (2000) depicts the first season where Herman Boone is head football coach of the TC Williams Titans in Alexandra , in Virginia. The beginning of the film shows how Bill Yoast, a Hall of Fame caliber coach, becomes Herman Boone's assistant coach during the integration of Virginia's public schools in the early 1970s. After these coaching conflicts were resolved temporarily, racially divided players and coaches go to football camp and learn how to be a team. In these scenes, Gerry Bertier and Julius Campbell appear as the leaders of the white and black members of the team, respectively. Although they fight each other and at first seem to become enemies, they are able to put their differences aside and reach common ground on which to build a close friendship. For the most part, the team itself is able to follow their lead. Although the film primarily deals with race relations, the history of desegregation, and how the Titans football team helped take positive steps toward racial inclusion and equality, the film also focuses a dialogue on notions of gender expectations, exclusion and deviance. The characters of Sheryl Yoast (Coach Yoast's daughter), Ronnie Bass, Gerry Bertier, Julius Campbell, and Herman Boone, in their various influences on the plot, help to highlight what is expected and what is not. not when it comes to gender norms. Through an explanation of scenes involving moments of gender deviance or policing of gender norms, this article will explore how Remember the Titans reinforces societal ideas of masculinity and femininity while giving audiences instances of socially acceptable deviance versus to these rules. In the middle of a sheet of paper... from a film. However, this type of gender socialization is pervasive in society and can go unchecked, as seen in films. The importance of educating children to pick up on these kinds of ideological messages is important to developing a generation less concerned with gender and race and a generation more dedicated to equality. The actors in the film may have learned to negotiate the space of masculinity and race, but they are not taught to include those who don't fit their team's goals of perfection. The women on the periphery of the film are a metaphor for those on the periphery of social importance and concern. Remember, Titans does little to inform its viewer of the gender issues that also surrounded the early seventies. Women are not, as at the time, adequately represented. It seems unlikely that this treatment was applied to reflect this inequality.