Patricia Bauer's Use Of Stereotypes In Movies

In Patricia Bauer’s article, “A Movie,A Word, And My Family’s Battle”, Bauer is using pathos to her readers to help them understand why the word retard is so offensive and hurtful to people who are mentally disabled but, also to their families who care for them. She believes that if people knew how offensive that word was then maybe people would stop using it as an insult or joke. She’s making this point for not only for daughter also for every family around the world that care for the mentally disabled.
On page 443, Bauer bring’s in the emotional appeal when she and her daughter had just gotten out of the movie theater and were discussing the movie when a group of pre-teens girl were walking by and one of them pointed out to Margaret and said “Look,Retard” and her other friends turned and looked at Margaret. Bauer used this story to help her readers get a sense of what her daughter and others deal with on a daily basis. And how people can use the word retard thinking that Margaret wasn’t any human than they …show more content…
With the release of this highly conversy movie Bauer believed that this was “More like a grenade, and we’re the collateral damage”(444) that the movie promoted the word retard because Ben Stiller’s chataher Simple Jack, a man with an metnal handcap, who has a bowl haircut and few realatable qualities. She believes that this movie was a middle finger to all the people who have love one’s who has a mental disability by cueing the retard jokes like “Never go full retard” and “Once upon a time…. There was a retard.” and that the stars Stiller,Downey, and Black and the studeo that produced the movie, Dreamworks, had defended the movie saying that it was a pardoy aimed at the movie industry and their past of exploiting people with disablities and again it was one big joke and nobody should be taken offense to