Carry on Camping, or in fact any of the Carry On films, is dominated by men and the male characters. In this patriarchal episode the Matron of the girls school is being portrayed by a larger female. Who is represented as being unattractive and prudish. When there is a shot of her walking down the corridor in the school a deep sounding instrumental soundtrack is played which highlights her size.
The other larger woman in this film is a wife to one of the 'sex obsessed' males. She is portrayed as being a nagging wife who doesn't listen to her husband.
Of course there are female roles for smaller sized women in this film, and especially if you under 25, they are represented as young, curvaceous sexual objects for the men to run after and to look at. The main girl the men are interested in is a young blonde girl (Barbara Windsor) who looses her bra during a morning warm up exercise.
The representations in this film are negative for both genders as men are being represented as seedy sex obsessed men. The younger girls are being looked at as purely sexual objects because they are young and curvaceous, which additionally is creating the sense of a 'perfect' body image and also sinks into ageism as the larger women are being portrayed as unattractive females which suggests that being young and curvaceous is 'perfect' and the only thing that men find attractive. Which in the modern day is not a correct representation.
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