Argumentative Essay About Men Stereotypes

Society tends to judge both men and women based on how they look, dress, what they eat, who they hang out with, and how they carry themselves. Theses categorizations lead to certain communities or groups to be misconceived one way and stereotyped. Stereotypes and misconceptions are often mistaken to mean the same thing. Stereotypes are groups of people who are looked at in a way because people in their group act a certain way, based on truth but is exaggerated. Although, misconceptions are formed from stereotypes, they are simply untrue assumptions. People create stereotypes and misconceptions against other individuals because it’s a shorter process when meeting new people and it makes it easier to judge the person based on how they look or …show more content…
It may be as simple as seeing a stranger and the mind begins to examine them by their appearance, what they are doing, how they carry themselves, and then the brain takes what it already knows from outside rumors or assumptions and slaps an imaginary label on that stranger’s forehead. In the article “About Men”, by Gretel Ehrlich, she begins talking about her wanting to see a reminder of the ranchers and cowboys she's ridden with for the last eight years when she’s missing them, instead she sees something else. Ehrlich states,” But the men I see in those posters with their stern, humorless looks remind me of no one I know here. In our hellbent earnestness to romanticize the cowboy we’ve ironically disesteemed his true character” (41). Ehrlich has had a long experience in knowing what a cowboy really is, so when she looks around trying to find a reminder of them, she ends up seeing societies made up wide spread mental picture of what a cowboy is made up to be. This is how stereotypes and misconceptions work by inferring a person or group has characteristics or abilities that is assumed a group