Gender Stereotypes In College Campus

There is an anonymous tale that although the college campus is for furthering one’s education, there is a secondary component of discovery where students explore who they are as a person, such as defining their sexuality. What is sexual though? It could be the way a pair of significant others look at each other from across the room, it could be the way a person identifies themselves in terms of who they are attracted to or what sex or gender they would like to be intimate with. It could be anything. It could even be casual conversations between students on campus. Drawing from random excerpts of conversations with associates, who have been given pseudonyms for their privacy, there appears to be an obvious divide on what people think is sexual, …show more content…
I wanted to know why a form of dancing raised the need for judgement and I questioned it further due to the fact that twerking is something common due to modern media. Yet, I realized, that there are more acceptable types of dancing, or twerking rather, that are on display in the media by Caucasian or less curvaceous women. I was almost angry at the general bias before taking a step back further and trying to understand the favoritism further. Although, it shouldn’t matter in this degree, the people who were questioning my friend were Caucasian. Culturally, without any prejudices involved, is the basis of how important music and dancing are to differing cultures. I know for instance that in my culture, dancing in a way some might seem provocative is very natural and the art of moving one’s hips was taught early on that normalizes instances that could seem deviant for …show more content…
However, there is an underlying focus on the regards to the fact that many cultures/races/ethnicities do not understand certain sexual aspects/actions of other cultures/races/ethnicities and title it as “bad” when it is not always so, just because it is strange to them. This is what is happening in this case, otherwise known as sexual promiscuity. This derives from the Sexual Script Theory, taken from “Sexuality and Social Theorizing” (Donnelly 2014), explaining that there are scripts for sexual behaviors and how to respond to them, stemming from cultural, interpersonal and individual levels. Due to these factors, because of how different the cultures were that saw the clip, it is understandable to see questioning stares if it is something the former had never witnessed before, just like the instance with ‘JILL.’ This isn’t an excuse on any means, but rather a reasoning as to why. Biases are based off of personal experiences as well as social and historical contexts. It doesn’t just dwell for culture or race, but cultural capital, people’s backgrounds that help form them into the people that they