Male Stereotypes

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I’d like to start of by identifying the clothing of everyone in this room. Every girl in here is wearing a skirt and the boys are wearing shorts and pants. Because the stereotype of which girls are seen as feminine should reflect in our clothes, and a skirt or dress being to reflect that.

But in the modern world of now , men are seen to be the more dominant sex, why? Male privilege. I never heard of a man paying pink tax or having to worry about a child on the the. The privilege sometimes undermined, is a real privilege.It’s an advantage Ever since their first shaw the shining fluorescent light in their delivery room. They are seen to be stronger, smarter and tougher. Stereotyping from gender, to colour, to race, to ethnicity in this generation would be displayed in social media, and or anything online. Men and women having to live up to such standards. It is be toxic especially for those of youth who look upto celebrities with the
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Although Yunis from She’s the Man had nobody liking her because of the way she looked. She was an OUTCAST. She did break traditional female stereotypes with not a positive outcome.Someone ignored by people just because of the way she looked. In the 12th night Duke Orsino is no different when saying “Women are like roses; the moment they're in full bloom it's about to decay” when talking to Viola about how he perceives relationships, what he sees as the norm. He seems to think that women are in their prime when they’re young and beautiful- which is correct in a way of how you see it like a women being her best looking self when she is younger or maybe she aged gracefully. But this is not taking into account that he was only talking about looks and not personality, which is very shallow of him. The superficial romantic ideal in which Duke Orsino believes to be, is not only relative to the time now where girls aspire for marriage and boys aren't thought the

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