Reflection 2
Cultural beliefs shape gender by classifying males and females by using traits and expectation in order to show dominance. For example, .males are superior than woman because they have a higher status based on strength .This shows that men have higher authority .This causes for men to use their authority in order to decide how media should portray woman to be. Ridgeway states” Many of these interactions are structured as status inequalities, due to both the inequalities in the institutional roles they occupy and the status attached to gender itself.”(Ridgeway ,66).This shows us that stereotypes are based on gender inequalities .Therefore, by not following social
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They are born and grow, they die and change to fit at times” (Guerilla Girls, pg. 8). Therefore, this explains how stereo types are defined by cultural beliefs and religion based on expectations for gender. This affects gender because we are not looking at the person for who they are in reality. This resource has challenged my thinking by helping me understand the different types of stereotypes that effects woman inner self and dignity. Therefore, this shows that they are only based on assumptions and not accurate data. For example, .a woman who doesn’t meet the standards of ideal woman should not be suggested to be ugly because they must be beautiful in the …show more content…
For example, this affects young females because is misleading them and discourage them from being unique .This shows that young teens at an early age are being exploited .For example, media is used to mislead individuals in order to become someone that they are not. Media has portrayed woman to be sexual and for men to disrespect them. A perfect woman described by men should be beautiful in the outside and have no intelligence. This video is powerful and expanded the course material because it shows real life cases in the video to show how teens are suffering. This challenged my thinking because at an early age females should only be focused finding their inner self .They should be able to decide who they want to be and how they should dress. I agree that media is affecting younger generation mindset because they are using social norms in order to tell them what it is right and wrong. Also, this video has helped me understand that is time for women to have authority by becoming successful. I believe that woman should not be downgraded but admired for their intelligence. The data that was shown in the video challenged my thinking because there are not a lot of women in
The society has a tendency to develop assumptions about individuals based on their race, income levels and even gender. One of the major stereotypic notions is based on the roles and position that
Stephen Bonnycastle in his criticism, In Search of Authority, explains stereotypes as, "The system (sometimes known as “the patriarchal order”) that causes the majority of men and women to take on these different roles ... hidden, like the rules of grammar in a language."(10). When a stereotype is introduced into a situation for a extended period of time, it is psychologically proven that it will become an expectation. Stereotypes prove to act as an obscuring lens into which most people view the world. When a person is unaware of a culture, race, gender they mainly use the stereotypes to judge them against. Stereotypes are not just a generalization of a group of people, "stereotypes warrant a closer analysis, because they powerfully shape the reality of gender differences..."(Brody 396). The effects of stereotypes go deeper than just male and female, race against race, "everyone is vulnerable to stereotype threat, at least in some circumstances"(reducingstereotypethreat.org). Stereotypes overall cause negative side effects, some fatal. These side effects are psychological as well as physical. People who
No one can deny the impact the media has had on the current society. Peoples opinions and views on the world have mostly likely came from television or other forms of technology. This can be both a negative and positive thing. The media is known for portraying people as stereotypically as possible, which is very toxic if watching at a young age. Adults can easily realize that one portrayal of a person doesn’t mean every single person is like that but kids cannot. A little girl may see a girl being portrayed as a damsel in distress waiting for a prince, and she will believe that all girls must act like this. Girls only seeing themselves as weak, sexy, plot devices, allows them to lose aspirations they have in life. After watching the documentary
Since the beginning of time, gender has played a big role in how one acts and how one is looked upon in society. From a young age children are taught to be either feminine or masculine. Why is it that gender plays a big role in the characteristics that one beholds? For centuries in many countries it has been installed in individual’s heads that they have to live by certain stereotypes. Women have been taught to be feeble to men and depend on them for social and economical happiness. While men have been taught to be mucho characters that have take care of their homes and be the superior individual to a woman. For the individuals who dare to be different and choose to form their own identity whether man or woman, they are out casted and secluded from their community. These stereotypes that people have been taught to live upon have been a huge burden on women because they are the ones who have been taught to be the inferior individual. Women have struggled to obtain their own identities and become independent, but as time has evolved women have developed and are able to be independent. Surprisingly it is being accepted.
Stereotypes such as only woman can clean, cook, and take care of children. While on the other hand men can only make money and provide for their families. Yet these stereotypes hold no significant value nowadays. Historically we are told to believe that these stereotypes capture the true essence of being “male or female,” but currently that’s just inaccurate. The stereotypes that distribute the roles between “male and female,” are inaccurate nowadays, due to the way society views efficiency. Efficiency in the way we carry our lives, for instance a couple with a newborn baby. The stereotype would be that the mother would stay home while the father goes to work, but how society views efficiency rather than the stereotype norm, whoever makes the most money would work and the other stays home to nurture the new born. Stereotypes are tools to demonstrate “gender norms,” but what happens when the “gender norms” of the past become obsolete? Historically stereotypes have some legitimacy during post war times, but currently hold no significant values other than in jokes. As Emily W. Kane states the opinions of 21st century parents on the topic of gender roles in, “No Way My Boys Are Going to Be Like That,” a “…Mother taught her son to cook, asserting that ‘I want my son to know how to do more than boil water, I want my son to know how to take care of himself’”(91). Along with many more quotes
Gender roles are social constructs developed over time and are not based on natural human behavior. Pressure within our society to conform to specific versions of “manliness” and “womanliness” is immense. Stereotypes can be harmful because they encourage people to condemn and oppress those who do not fit traditional roles. Society’s ideal images of men and women determine their path by controlling the social norm. Society’s principles are taught from the moment someone’s gender is determined, causing males and females to instantly conform to the culture’s ideal version of each gender; fearing a stigma if they do not conform, specifically within growing up, parenting, and working.
There is a common saying ‘that all men are from Mars’ and ‘all women are from Venus’ which has the tendency to stereotype the individual differences as gender differences. When it comes to psychological traits like empathy, sexual attitudes and behaviours, and personality traits like extroversion and openness there is no clear evidence to suggest men and women can be divided into two distinct groups. Critical thinking challenges stereotypes and proves that there are more similarities than differences between men and women. Men and women have the same desires, wants, dreams and fears. It can be said that gender stereotypes are in most cases a result of 'nurture' more than 'nature'.
Girls are supposed to play with dolls, wear pink, and grow up to become princesses. Boys are suppose to play with cars, wear blue, and become firefighters and policemen. These are just some of the common gender stereotypes that children grow up to hear. Interactions with toys are one of the entryway to different aspects of cognitive development and socialism in early childhood. As children move through development they begin to develop different gender roles and gender stereotypes that are influenced by their peers and caregivers. (Chick, Heilman-Houser, & Hunter, 2002; Freeman, 2007; Leaper, 2000)
...014. Web. 5 Oct. 2015. This article speaks about where gender stereotypes come from and why they persist. The article may be a bit biased, but provides citations and other information I can do background research with. The information presented in the article will be helpful for my research paper, because it gives a lot of useful information about why stereotypes exist in the first place.
Socio-cultural and parental influences are significant factors that encourage biases based on gender stereotype. Both men and women internalize their perspective gender stereotype roles as a part of their identity (Firestone, Firestone, & Catlett, 2006). Due to changes in the social structure and gender role in the US, people are not as restricted by the stereotype today (Gardiner & Kosmitzki, 2010; Tucker, 2005). However, such changes raised issues that are also challenging to overcome. Gaining awareness of more implicit forms of discrimination and making changes in message vulnerable people receive would help reduce negative effects of discrimination and stereotype (Steel, 1997; Sue, et al., 2007). Furthermore, in the individual level, people can benefit from self-reflection to increase awareness of their own values, beliefs, and desires. Such awareness would likely to lead to mutuality between men and women, and establishing a healthy relationship (Firestone, Firestone, & Catlett,
Articulate what you have learned this semester about dispelling the myth of "Man the Hunter and Woman the Gatherer", which flourished under the patriarchal influence in archaeology of the early to mid twentieth century. Give a few examples of ways that women contributed in prehistoric societies or contribute in modern tribal societies which were largely overlooked by archaeologists in the past.
First we need to examine the cases where this is present. Less obvious stereotypes are those of women. Women?s roles in society have changed throughout the times. Are the...
Everybody is born and made differently, but one thing is similar, our gender. We are born either male or female, and in society everybody judges us for our gender. This is called gender roles; societies expecting you to act like a male or female (Rathus, 2010). Some people say, “act like a lady,” or “be a man,” these are examples of how gender roles work in our everyday lives. In society when we think stereotypes, what do we think? Many think of jocks, nerds, or popular kids; gender stereotyping is very similar. Gender stereotypes are thoughts of what the gender is supposed to behave like (Rathus, 2010). One example of a gender stereotype for a man would be a worker for the family, and a women stereotype would be a stay at home mom. Though in todays age we don’t see this as much, but it is still around us. In different situations both gender roles and stereotypes are said and done on a daily basis and we can’t avoid them because everyone is different.
Society has stamped an image into the minds of people of how the role of each gender should be played out. There are two recognized types of gender, a man and a woman, however there are many types of gender roles a man or a woman may assume or be placed into by society. The ideas of how one should act and behave are often times ascribed by their gender by society, but these ascribed statuses and roles are sometimes un-welcomed, and people will assume who they want to be as individuals by going against the stereotypes set forth by society. This paper will examine these roles in terms of how society sees men and women stereotypically, and how men and women view themselves and each other in terms of stereotypes that are typically ascribed, as well as their own opinions with a survey administered to ten individuals. What I hope to prove is that despite stereotypes playing a predominant role within our society, and thus influencing what people believe about each other in terms of their same and opposite genders, people within our society are able to go against these ascribed stereotypes and be who they want and it be okay. Through use of the survey and my own personal history dealing with gender stereotyping I think I can give a clear idea as to how stereotypes envelope our society, and how people and breaking free from those stereotypes to be more individualistic.
Gender stereotypes are basically rigid, oversimplified, exaggerated beliefs about masculinity and femininity that misrepresent men and women alike. Our perceptions are shaped by the culture in which those stereotypes lie. Those expected behaviors often become the expected realities of people. How do said expectations change when encountering people that do not quite fit the dichotomous binary? How do they differ across cultures and through various social prisms? Seeing as how gender is quite complex as opposed to static, how are they incorporated into the intersections in which they relate to? While I completely agree that gender stereotypes are rigid, I do see that their meanings can be altered in response to the social contexts and patterns that they are existing in.