Just Be U
Rationale
We as a group wanted to reach a large number of individuals for a significant number of challenges and obstacles that we all face in our lives. We wanted one place to be able to go to for help with all sorts of gender issues focusing generally on college age students, yet would also help others. The best way we knew to impact a large number of people was of course through social media, Facebook. From there we started developing what topics we wanted to cover as well as the resources and information we wanted on the page. Our themes were topics on bullying, depression, suicide, domestic violence, rape, L.G.B.T. issues liking coming to terms with identity as well as support groups to help all issues.Many of these …show more content…
Prejudices refers to conscious or non-conscious feelings and attitudes that can have a negative or positive connotation (Vesclo,T.) Having a prejudice on a person is essentially a generally scathing opinion of a person without even knowing the individual nor having any reason to hold such ill will. Stereotypes and prejudice go hand in hand and perpetuate negativity that can harmful especially to the victims of this. Young teens do not have the skills to deal with this cruel learned behavior, as a result some commit suicide. Our prejudices translate into the judgemental ways we view people and see them as incapable and less than the norm and feeds inequality.
Discrimination divides and separates for our differences and we get treated differently according to our social class, race, religion, sexual orientation, age, size and weight, the way we articulate words, gender, the way we dress etc.. Discrimination is extremely harmful to everyone, and we need to learn how to deal with a society that discriminates “otherness” or being different and forms prejudices displayed in how “others” are treated poorly and unfairly. Discrimination is a behavior that separates groups or people from others, in turn, they are treated differently by others (Gender Stereotypes,
Rationale
We as a group wanted to reach a large number of individuals for a significant number of challenges and obstacles that we all face in our lives. We wanted one place to be able to go to for help with all sorts of gender issues focusing generally on college age students, yet would also help others. The best way we knew to impact a large number of people was of course through social media, Facebook. From there we started developing what topics we wanted to cover as well as the resources and information we wanted on the page. Our themes were topics on bullying, depression, suicide, domestic violence, rape, L.G.B.T. issues liking coming to terms with identity as well as support groups to help all issues.Many of these …show more content…
Prejudices refers to conscious or non-conscious feelings and attitudes that can have a negative or positive connotation (Vesclo,T.) Having a prejudice on a person is essentially a generally scathing opinion of a person without even knowing the individual nor having any reason to hold such ill will. Stereotypes and prejudice go hand in hand and perpetuate negativity that can harmful especially to the victims of this. Young teens do not have the skills to deal with this cruel learned behavior, as a result some commit suicide. Our prejudices translate into the judgemental ways we view people and see them as incapable and less than the norm and feeds inequality.
Discrimination divides and separates for our differences and we get treated differently according to our social class, race, religion, sexual orientation, age, size and weight, the way we articulate words, gender, the way we dress etc.. Discrimination is extremely harmful to everyone, and we need to learn how to deal with a society that discriminates “otherness” or being different and forms prejudices displayed in how “others” are treated poorly and unfairly. Discrimination is a behavior that separates groups or people from others, in turn, they are treated differently by others (Gender Stereotypes,