Identity paper: Societies View on Me In this day and age everyone is judged, judged by strangers, by friends, by essentially everybody based purely on their appearance. This judgment stems from multiple sources, the way certain types people are portrayed in movies, ads, etc. I don’t believe there is any type of person out there who isn’t stereotyped on one level or another, it is human nature to assume things about people based on what we see in the media and other sources. The fact is, many of these stereotypes are not as prevalent, or in some cases nonexistent within whatever race or type of people they are stereotyping. I am often labeled as a fat, male gamer. How our society views overweight people can sometimes be quite disconcerting.
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While gaming may be the cause of obesity in some children, in the majority of cases it has nothing to do with it. The main reason children are overweight is because of a poor diet and not enough exercise. Another thing people fail to realize is that everyone in the world as has different body type, someone who runs marathons can be a little chunky still, and someone who plays video games can be very thin. I have a friend who plays video games almost all day and eats nothing but chips and processed food, and he is very thin. Albeit he may not be healthy from a medical standpoint, it is not what you would expect out of someone who does nothing but play video games. This is just one example of when stereotypes were completely …show more content…
Not only are al fat people obligated to be funny, in most television shows they are the ones at the center of the joke. The media is making it seem ok to make fun of fat people because it’s all in good fun, and they don’t mind. Take the show Mike and Molly for example, the two main characters on the show are obese, and many of the jokes in the show are about their weight. This is just one of the shows out there that is desensitizing people to “fat humor”. Making fun of obesity has become one of the most popular things of our time, but why? It’s possible that because so many people in America are overweight, it makes it seem more acceptable to make fun of them. Like being fat is just a normal thing now, and it some ways it
While gaming may be the cause of obesity in some children, in the majority of cases it has nothing to do with it. The main reason children are overweight is because of a poor diet and not enough exercise. Another thing people fail to realize is that everyone in the world as has different body type, someone who runs marathons can be a little chunky still, and someone who plays video games can be very thin. I have a friend who plays video games almost all day and eats nothing but chips and processed food, and he is very thin. Albeit he may not be healthy from a medical standpoint, it is not what you would expect out of someone who does nothing but play video games. This is just one example of when stereotypes were completely …show more content…
Not only are al fat people obligated to be funny, in most television shows they are the ones at the center of the joke. The media is making it seem ok to make fun of fat people because it’s all in good fun, and they don’t mind. Take the show Mike and Molly for example, the two main characters on the show are obese, and many of the jokes in the show are about their weight. This is just one of the shows out there that is desensitizing people to “fat humor”. Making fun of obesity has become one of the most popular things of our time, but why? It’s possible that because so many people in America are overweight, it makes it seem more acceptable to make fun of them. Like being fat is just a normal thing now, and it some ways it