...Accepting Stereotypes When looking at media today a lot of people may think it has come a long way in terms of its representation of the LGBTQ+ community. However, what many often fail to acknowledge is how they are being represented. Despite the growing acceptance and portrayal of LGBTQ+ characters in television and film, the main depictions we see are still stereotypes, negative images, and comic reliefs; all there for entertainment and/or to gain credit for diversity. Why is it that today, in the age of second generation human rights activists, the majority of people still seem to voluntarily swallow these stereotypes of the LGBTQ+ community? Hollywood has during later years been criticized by its lack of diversity, and focus on white...
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...The Rules of Being a Woman For many years, women have been looked at as inferior in comparison to men. Our anatomical differences seem to have come with an instruction sheet on how each gender is expected to behave and live their lives. Lorber suggests rather than looking at just the physical sex organs of our body to determine how we are expected to act, people should look at “behavior and only then look for identifying markers of the people likely to enact such behaviors…” (729). Society has constructed multiple gender roles and when they aren’t met, you would be considered straying away from the norm. Women have always been degraded on due to the stereotypes society has created for them. Some of these stereotypes include the idea that women are domestic, sexual objects, and weaker than men. And between society and those women that have been affected by these stereotypes, we have slowly but gradually figured out how women have overcome these gender roles. In Jessica Grose’s article “Cleaning: The Final Feminist Frontier Why men still don’t do their share of the dirty work” she gives us an overview of the amount of men and women who participate in household chores in the following statistic, “…about 55 percent of American mothers employed full time do some housework on an average day, while only 18 percent of employed fathers do.” So although this percentage has gotten better, assuming back then women were more degraded on when it came to housework, women still take the...
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...* From the first e-Activity, contrast the advantages and disadvantages of just-in-time learning. Evaluate whether or not this is a valid and worthwhile investment to help increase the productivity within an organization. Describe your personal experience(s) with just-in-time learning. After reviewing Head First Labs I realized many advantages to Just-in-time learning. One advantage especially in the changing workplace today is the information is learned and retained, as you need it. The learned material is applied to real live situations and not just taught in a classroom setting. The individual is getting to learn as well as apply the information they learned. Continuous or life long learning is becoming the mantra of the knowledge age worker (O’Driscoll, 1999; Rose & Nicholl, 1997). In todays workplace employers are changing the responsibilities of their employees because of the technological advances. Individuals can no longer rely on a degree they earned several years ago or a training class they attended last month. Instead, individuals are increasingly expected to assume responsibility for their own learning. Just in time learning is also beneficial because it calls for redundancy, and provides the controversial learning style that is necessary in order to retain the information and preform at a high level. I believe just in time learning increases productivity because innovation in learning drives workforce productivity. With continuous on the job learning individuals...
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...associations to different people. This can have unfortunate results! The following verse by John Donovan illustrates this perfectly: Call a woman a kitten, but never a cat; You can call her a mouse, cannot call her a rat; Call a woman a chicken, but never a hen Or you surely will not be her caller again. You can say she's a vision, can't say she's a sight; And no woman is skinny, she's slender and slight; If she should burn you up, say she sets you afire And you'll always be welcome, you tricky old liar. While some emotive words have favourable connotations, others have unfavourable connotations, for example: * Predictable vs boring * Scholarly vs nerdy * Self-confident vs conceited * Youthful vs...
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...Research and Background The Nacirema tribe and their strange behaviors were first documented by Horace Miner in “The Body Ritual Among the Nacirema” in 1956. Considerable effort has been extended to the study of this most unusual tribe in the years that followed and many print articles and lectures were devoted to trying to understand these people and their strange customs. Recently, many new research techniques combined with a host of motivated anthropologists and a fresh source of both corporate donations and governmental funds have uncovered new information about the Nacirema. Although there are hundreds or perhaps thousands of Nacirema rituals, ceremonies, and practices that merit intense study and analysis, the focus of this research paper is perhaps one of the most bizarre and poorly understood of all their rituals. This ritual has it’s roots in many different cultures dispersed across the world dating back hundreds of years. This most interesting ritual has been celebrated in a very concentrated region of Nacirema for hundreds of years located in a few costal cities north of the body of water “Gulf of the Land of Maize”. Although this ritual is celebrated to some degree in selected Nacirema cities of this region, the epicenter of this ritual and it’s many strange customs is the city that straddles the end of the big river Ojibwe. This city is “Crescent City”, aptly named for the villages of the city that followed the curvature of the big river Ojibwe. Once per...
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...Public Space” Stereotypes affect different individuals regardless race, religion, sex, and creed. In “Just Walk On By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space,” Brent Staples demonstrates how a stereotype on race and sex can intervene with one another. Each point, whether a narrative or remark, can have positive and negative outcomes on the audience Staples is trying to enlighten. His thesis, the ability to alter public space through racial stereotypes, affected him as well as many other persons of his stature and skin color. It not only influenced lives of people like Staples, but infringed onto the “victims” of Staples and others like him. Staples explains his thesis throughout the essay through narratives of incidents in his life. He explains one encounter with a young white women, “on a deserted street, in an impoverished section of Chicago” (556). She glances back at him and disappears off into the dark. In paragraph two, Staples understands her thoughts of him being a mugger, a rapist, or even a murderer; but “her flight” made him feel “like an accomplice tyranny” (556). It also made him feel like he was “indistinguishable from the muggers,” and laid on him and “unnerving gulf between nighttime pedestrians—particularly women” and himself (556). This confrontation not only shows how a stereotype affected the thoughts of a female walking at night, but how it negatively touched a black male. Staples gives example after example showing a bigoted...
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...photos can go viral in seconds. On these platforms are thousands of celebrities, and everyday they promote new products, campaigns and share their views on trending topics. Which of the two series of ads is the most effective in your opinion? Why? The “Straight But Not Narrow” ads, in my opinion, are more effective because they are gimmick free and effective. The dog videos are humorous, but unclear. Many people, especially children, will pay more attention to the adorable animals and less attention to the issue itself. When you have influential figures with a strong voice like Josh Hutcherson and the late Cory Montieth advocating for the acceptance of LGBT people, their fans and the media will pay attention. Do simulated dogs have as much as an impact as international celebrities? I don’t think so. Why are adolescents a key target for these types of media campaigns? Adolescents are the key targets for these campaigns because they are the future. If campaigns like the two shown inspire positive thinking and a new outlook on this subject, in time...
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...newspapers, magazines, TV, and radio are the things that shape and construct an individual’s identity, more and more so as time and technology progresses. We look to the media to find examples of small parts of our personalities which we can label and define, taking ideas, opinions and behaviours from 100’s if not 1000’s of places and people over time, creating our own individuality. 20-30 years ago, mainstream media was very different to what it is today. The ideas and stereotypes that were portrayed told us how we should be and how we should act, allowing unrealistic expectations to be expected of everyone. Society was pushing people into defining exactly who they were by putting themselves into one traditional category, very resistant to the idea of change and being unique. Today, it seems that, “within limits, mass media is a force for change.”1 As it being easier to create things for other people with more platforms for the public to release their content, the rules and expectations of society become looser meaning the media’s outlook on who you should be becomes more realistic. Instead of now creating ourselves based on one stereotype, people can change themselves and find out who they are through media as they are given the option. An example of this change over time is the masculine stereotype in media, specifically...
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...been making the most it can to provide teens with a supportive outlet. As Malik questions why British media is so intent on marginalizing ethnic minorities into limited roles that often stereotypes them (par 1), teens remain looking for a positive model to relate to. Today, there are ethnic actors in lead movie roles and ethnic models that grace the covers of magazine that can help inspire teens. However, the amount of diversity in Britain is a handful and generations of teens remain having to look for inspiration to go off from that reflect their culture and roots to this day. Lack of empowerment and increase in stereotyping is cause for teens to make poor decision. Although there are inspiring people of color in Britain, this does not mean there is enough to empower multicultural teens. Asumadu expresses “I wondered how my teenage nephews felt in a system that wasn't designed to help them thrive” (par 4). No doubt, this tragic lack of empowerment creates an identity crisis for youths of ethnic backgrounds. Instead, youths have found themselves unconsciously falling into the stereotypical roles their people have commonly been part of, such as thugs, troublesome, and problematic. This in turn feeds into the notion that minorities are less than intellectuals and further popularized stereotypes in British society. Truly, representation matters more than is believed as it can root itself to be a problem from early on in life if there is lack of it. British media should do better...
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...The media distorts our perception of race. Through television, newspaper, radio and the internet, the media is able to influence the minds of such a wide audience. With the increasing usage of the internet, media in our society today is a platform where anyone is free to express their thoughts and feelings unchecked. Unfortunately, while this does come with its benefits, with the growing power of media, racism against minority groups is easily found everywhere whether it is obvious, or subtle. Racism in our media must come to an end. In our society, racism has always been an issue. "Even in New Zealand?" some may ask, because we are famous for being culturally open. In New Zealand, the largest racial minority group are the Maori who are historically...
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...Racial stereotypes in the novel continuously changed and became less "inter-race" discrimination and more "inner-race". While Eatonville served as a platform for black people to escape from the racism present in the rest of the United, it was not lacking in discrimination. Upon the arrival of Joe Starks and Janie to the town, several members of the all-black community question Joe’s aspirations. Even an Eatonville community member voiced that “us colored folks is too envious of one ‘nother,” and that’s why any sort of progress is unlikely (Hurston 46). Furthermore, he says that Even though they are free from white intervention which kept the black race from progressing, it is really the entire black community that keeps any one of its members from moving...
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...Back in the days of the Great Depression, people would riot on the streets when they saw a family being Evicted. Yet as Matthew Desmond points out in his novel “Evicted” evictions were a fraction as prevalent back then as they are now. In this day and age, people seem oddly desensitized to families being thrown out onto the street. Perhaps this is due to the type of people they see evicted, and the assumptions that they have towards them. Overall, society has grown to have a detestful view on those who come from poverty, as with poverty come higher rates of violence, drugs, and other crimes. Not to mention, the conservative platform in America has for years focused fiscal blame onto the lower class, particularly those dependant on welfare programs, by labeling them as “moochers” and claiming they abuse the system, riding on the backs of hard working Americans. This damaging sentiment paired with the stereotypes of and attitudes towards impoverished individuals has contributed to the desensitization of Americans towards their fellow struggling citizens, and further enabled the loop of poverty to continue. Poverty itself is a complex thing, and more often than not, those who fall below poverty lines end up in a vicious cycle that is hard to pull yourself out...
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...Introduction In today’s society we encounter many differences in the people around us. Whether based on culture, gender, ethnicity, or age these factors all have some stereotypes attached to them. In our paper, we will discuss stereotyping, both thoughtful and non-thoughtful. We will also address stereotyping in an organization. Our society can be split up into many various groups by gender, race, or even by traits. The world consists of both men and women, blacks and whites, Democrats and Republicans, all who live their own distinct way of life. “Stereotypes are qualities perceived to be associated with particular groups or categories of people (Schneider, 2005).” We stereotype other people all the time because of gender, race, color, and we usually do not even realize it. Stereotypes are so widespread and used so often that they seem to be a natural behavior for human beings. The purpose of this paper is to give a clear explanation on stereotyping. We will evaluate the cognitive (thoughtful/non-thoughtful) approach that suggest putting people into categories is necessary in the thought process that surely sets the presidents of stereotyping. In the last 20 years our society has experienced in explosion of research and theories in stereotyping. Most information has been learned from using the difference between relatively non-thoughtful and relatively thoughtful thinking processes (Weegner, Clark, & Petty). The present research shows both thoughtful and non-thoughtful thinking...
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... Sexual abuse or rape is usually pushed under the rug, due to the negative connotation stereotype associated with being victimized, because of the controlling images such as the jezebel modernly known as “hoochie.” The jezebel is stemming image associated with the loose women stereotype. Referencing to the notion that if your dressed sleazy i.e. thong showing, booty shorts that she wants attention. This image makes it easy to camouflage the sexual assault to justify how it could be rape if this is what she wants. Any good piece of art has a history or background in which case may translate to the public as controversy. Music is a form of therapy for most to cope with their problems, and music video provides a visual aid for wide-ranging audiences’ and to give a visual message. Rihanna fifth studio album is entitle “Loud” she wanted to address some issue and make them loud and clear. Rihanna released her fifth single from the album entitled Man Down, lyrically this song is a modern version of I Shot the Sheriff by Bob Marley. In the music video Rihanna is used as controlling image to address sexual assault and its victims. Rihanna has dealt with domestic violence issues in her past, which gained the support of most feminist groups; she uses her videos as a platform to work out her own personal issues with abuse. Recently Rihanna has been listed in Times Magazine April 2012 issue for being one of the most influential females in the...
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...Switzerland. I am writing you this letter to express my own personal opinion on the matter of sexism. How your magazine contains advertisements that encourage sexism. I fully understand it is not your company that creates such adverts but you make the choice to use them in your magazine. I hope after having read this letter you will have the will to reconsider the use of these sexist advertisements in your magazine causing your audience to suffer different consequences. In your magazine, you include advertisements playing on stereotypes of women. The models in these advertisements are often naked or almost naked...
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