Gender Stereotypes: Journal Analysis

With this course coming to an end, I can absolutely say, these journal entries helped me not be as oblivious to my everyday encounters. A lot of things are revealed throughout my journaling, but two major things are: I always found myself thinking about gender stereotypes and the difference between Iowa and California social inequality. Although racial issues are a problem, I didn’t directly experience or see any. The only unsettling things I observed were like how a mall was mostly full of blacks, Hispanics, and Asians, whereas a church was full of all white people. I think this reflects mostly on our geography, maybe the location of where these events took place impact the audience of people. However, gender and social inequality were the two major problems I experienced most. With gender, it was mostly the problem I had with stereotyping experience. Almost every entry regarding gender, I subconsciously applied a stereotype to that situation. What’s most strange is I never thought about them before, except when I thought they were funny at times. Now I realize just how offensive truly are. I believe I noted during my Target shopping experience, how I was disturbed by how much …show more content…
The biggest moment of revelation for me was when I went to LA, and applying my newfound knowledge of our society to a different location. After thinking about it, I think this is why I struggled so much with our first section when we discussed theories involving social inequality. My problem was that I never witnessed true poverty, only a few homeless people at stop signs, nothing more. Going to LA truly opened to my eyes to the poverty situation in America, I always pushed the thought of homeless people out of my mind because it made me so sad, but having to face the truth really changed my entire attitude about poverty. I know want to help them in anyway I can instead of being