Do you ever fell that you are limited to certain things or treated differently than others because of a stereotype? In today’s world many men and woman are affected because of a typical stereotype. It can hurt us in many different ways. Stereotyping can make a person change the way they live their lives and even make them change their characteristics. These stereotypes make a person feel like he is treated or looked at a certain way because of the way the he looks. We are all hurt individually and get our personal freedom limited by this and society isn’t helping the cause.
Woman all around the world feel as if the media portrays a negative image of them that support the typical stereotype that every woman that appears on commercials, t.v …show more content…
Many African Americans males are hurt by the stereotype the media portrays of them. Black men are portrayed as burglars and hooligans. This limits their personal freedom because they have to change the way they go on with the day. As explained in “Just Walk On By: Black Men and Public Space by Brent Staples. Staple would suffer from lack of sleep & to help him, he went on walks during the night. One night as he turned a street corner he came up upon on a woman in her early twenties despite that there was an uninflammatory distance between them. She felt threaten by his appearance. Staples was six feet had a beard, billowing hair, wore a big jacket and had his hands down his pockets. Soon she started running and disappeared around the corner. This experience made Staples realize that he would have to take precautions to make himself less threaten “I now take precautions to make myself less threaten.”(Just Walk On By 672) This limited his personal freedom by making him change the way he walked the street at night. Instead of walking right behind woman he would wait till they were no longer in sight till he made his way “I have been calm and extremely congenial.”(Just Walk on By
Woman all around the world feel as if the media portrays a negative image of them that support the typical stereotype that every woman that appears on commercials, t.v …show more content…
Many African Americans males are hurt by the stereotype the media portrays of them. Black men are portrayed as burglars and hooligans. This limits their personal freedom because they have to change the way they go on with the day. As explained in “Just Walk On By: Black Men and Public Space by Brent Staples. Staple would suffer from lack of sleep & to help him, he went on walks during the night. One night as he turned a street corner he came up upon on a woman in her early twenties despite that there was an uninflammatory distance between them. She felt threaten by his appearance. Staples was six feet had a beard, billowing hair, wore a big jacket and had his hands down his pockets. Soon she started running and disappeared around the corner. This experience made Staples realize that he would have to take precautions to make himself less threaten “I now take precautions to make myself less threaten.”(Just Walk On By 672) This limited his personal freedom by making him change the way he walked the street at night. Instead of walking right behind woman he would wait till they were no longer in sight till he made his way “I have been calm and extremely congenial.”(Just Walk on By