Latin American Women Analysis

The media today stereotypes Latin American women utilizes Hispanic women as a sexual firebrand. Cofer in her book, The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just met a Girl Named Maria addresses the roles of Latin American women and how they are stereotyped based on their appearance and the way the media sees their culture today. Latin American women role in society is stereotyped throughout media portraying them as passive, inferior and seductive. Latina’s the firebrand stereotype on televisions shows, in plays and in real life situations.
First, t media is responsible for inappropriately creating stereotypes for Latina women on shows such as “Modern Family” and “Desperate Housewives”. Latina women have adopted the titles of “sizziling” and smoldering” adjectives to describe themselves because of television shows that portray the Hispanic characters as “hot tamales.” Modern Family is an example of a latina woman being a sexual firebrand since the character Gloria Delgado-Pritchett played by Sofia Vergara is known for being a trophy wife with a limited english vocabulary. The “smoldering” Hispanic women character could be found in “Desperate Housewives” too. The show is about women always in search of a happy ending by dealing with a new problematic romantic event. The romantic ways …show more content…
The play depicts a poor poor woman accused of becoming the President of Argentina’s wife because she slept with many men to reach her goal. The play puts forth a very negative connotation toward Hispanic women by making them sound and act like “whores” because of Evita’s consistent accusations of sleeping with many other men. Although people may argue the actors and script writers are just poking fun at stereotypes to make the shows and plays funnier other than argue the shows make Hispanic women are vulnerable to stereotypes like being