Sexism: Modern Day Society

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The horror movie cliché has a vast amount of stereotypical archetypes such as the dumb jock, the promiscuous female, the geek, and the innocent virgin. There are plenty of more archetypes that are on the protagonist side and as well as the antagonist side of the story. Of course in horror movies the antagonist archetype is the slow-walking, super-human and/or creature-like monster that usually wins a running race against their prey except is killed ultimately by the innocent virgin. There are movies in the past, present and likely future that will always contain these archetype characters because we have them in every aspect of life. On a daily basis, fictional horror movie killers wearing masks, like Jason Vorhees and Michael Meyers, will not be roaming around at home and/or work, every day or ever, but we will always have some type of stereotypical situation happen in one fashion or another. Female archetypes, or stereotypes, that plague movies of all genres are still present in modern day Hollywood. This is just one example of how sexism is still a hot-topic. In the office, hospital, department store or any other place of business or pleasure are examples of common possible locations that can spurt a lot of sexist occurrences. Depending on an individual’s background (age, sex, race, etc.) there will always be a philosophical issue among gender roles and what is deemed socially correct.

Human resources are a group of people that is present in all places of business. They are the people that run a company, business or in a global-scale, the economy. A portion of that same group of working people is human resource management that oversees the organization. This is one example parallelism to how the world works in certain places...

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