Degrading Portrayal of Latina Women.
Saturday Night Live is a comedy sketch show, which was created in 1975 by Lorne Michaels. Saturday Night Live features a variety of sketches that makes fun of important elements in the news. Every week, entertainers are led by a different special guest. In Saturday Night Live’s “Jewelry Party” sketch, Lena Dunham hosts a jewelry party for her friends. One of her friends is Marisol, a Venezuelan beauty queen who was accompanied by her white American boyfriend to the party where he is being put in the spotlight for being a Men’s Right activist. SNL’s Jewelry Party sketch expounds the problems Latino immigrants, predominantly females, face and some of the stereotypes of them, as only being accepted and considered …show more content…
These women are subject to criticism and stereotypes by their own people and by the American public as a whole, because somehow they stand out. Marisol’s Character is labeled as the ignorant immigrant among her group of successful white coworkers. Marisol is not only foreign but she is also too dim to understand what her boyfriend does for a living. Marisol is completely oblivious to what job her boyfriend does, she thinks that he is an “equal rights” activists up until her coworker explains slowly to her, because she is an immigrant and she might not understand English, that she is wrong. Marisol claims that her Bruce fights for the equal pay for both men and women, “He fights for equal pays for mens and womens” but what she does not know is that Bruce is actually a “Men’s Rights Activist” who campaigns for men to gain more than their female colleagues working the same job. In this sketch Marisol is portrayed as a walking stereotypical Latina woman. Since pop cultural has such a powerful influence on individuals in regards to race, Latin women suffer several frequent stereotypes. They are often categorized as loud, sassy, tropically dressed, having terrible grammar, having a thick accent and most of all uneducated. Even though Marisol is not responsible for not knowing and understanding what her husband does for a living, she will still be looked down upon because of the way in which we …show more content…
Despite the achievements listed in the previous paragraph, Latinas are always portrayed in a one-dimensional manner. If they aren’t Marisol’s character from the SNL’s Jewelry Party sketch, tropically dressed, loud or dumb, they are Sofia Vergara’s character from Modern Family, all push-up bras and stiletto heels. In addition, not only are the stereotypes hazardous to a woman’s image, but they can possibly be very damaging simply because these stereotypes consist of disagreeable and awkward descriptions based on the assumptions shaped by popular culture. They are never portrayed as being nothing else than shallow sexpots. These women need to be given more roles such as lawyers, doctors, or even investment bankers. More commonly, the uneducated, crazy, loud, spicy, sexy, bad and victimized immigrant needs to be banished, because even though those are real-life characters, there is absolutely no reason why the media cannot emulate a diversity of life and show new and more importantly “real” Latina representatives in the
Saturday Night Live is a comedy sketch show, which was created in 1975 by Lorne Michaels. Saturday Night Live features a variety of sketches that makes fun of important elements in the news. Every week, entertainers are led by a different special guest. In Saturday Night Live’s “Jewelry Party” sketch, Lena Dunham hosts a jewelry party for her friends. One of her friends is Marisol, a Venezuelan beauty queen who was accompanied by her white American boyfriend to the party where he is being put in the spotlight for being a Men’s Right activist. SNL’s Jewelry Party sketch expounds the problems Latino immigrants, predominantly females, face and some of the stereotypes of them, as only being accepted and considered …show more content…
These women are subject to criticism and stereotypes by their own people and by the American public as a whole, because somehow they stand out. Marisol’s Character is labeled as the ignorant immigrant among her group of successful white coworkers. Marisol is not only foreign but she is also too dim to understand what her boyfriend does for a living. Marisol is completely oblivious to what job her boyfriend does, she thinks that he is an “equal rights” activists up until her coworker explains slowly to her, because she is an immigrant and she might not understand English, that she is wrong. Marisol claims that her Bruce fights for the equal pay for both men and women, “He fights for equal pays for mens and womens” but what she does not know is that Bruce is actually a “Men’s Rights Activist” who campaigns for men to gain more than their female colleagues working the same job. In this sketch Marisol is portrayed as a walking stereotypical Latina woman. Since pop cultural has such a powerful influence on individuals in regards to race, Latin women suffer several frequent stereotypes. They are often categorized as loud, sassy, tropically dressed, having terrible grammar, having a thick accent and most of all uneducated. Even though Marisol is not responsible for not knowing and understanding what her husband does for a living, she will still be looked down upon because of the way in which we …show more content…
Despite the achievements listed in the previous paragraph, Latinas are always portrayed in a one-dimensional manner. If they aren’t Marisol’s character from the SNL’s Jewelry Party sketch, tropically dressed, loud or dumb, they are Sofia Vergara’s character from Modern Family, all push-up bras and stiletto heels. In addition, not only are the stereotypes hazardous to a woman’s image, but they can possibly be very damaging simply because these stereotypes consist of disagreeable and awkward descriptions based on the assumptions shaped by popular culture. They are never portrayed as being nothing else than shallow sexpots. These women need to be given more roles such as lawyers, doctors, or even investment bankers. More commonly, the uneducated, crazy, loud, spicy, sexy, bad and victimized immigrant needs to be banished, because even though those are real-life characters, there is absolutely no reason why the media cannot emulate a diversity of life and show new and more importantly “real” Latina representatives in the