Stereotypes Stereotyping can allow a horrid antagonism… self destruction. According to Caitlin Flynn’s article, “Study Shows Gender Stereotypes Increase Depression, Violence, And Suicide In Kids”, stereotypes can leave a negative lasting destruction in childhood and throughout adulthood. David French’s article titled “A Suicide In Texas”, shows that's relevant. A young man attending the University of Texas by the name of Thomas Klocke was stereotyped as gay. A student who Thomas attended with was harassing him, and telling him that “gays should die”. Thomas tried to explain to the harasser that he isn’t gay, but that only made Thomas feel worse. On the night of June 2, 2016, Thomas Klocke committed suicide. Stereotyping may disturb the life
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People who don’t fit into a stereotype feel the need to change the way they look and act so they fit into a stereotype. According to S.E. Hinton’s novel, “The Outsiders”, Ponyboy Curtis was an outsider. Ponyboy is extremely intelligent, and wants to go to college, which makes him dissimilar to the Greasers. Yet Ponyboy is unfortunate and hangs around thugs which makes him unlike the Socs. Ponyboy dressed and acted like a Greaser so he would fit into a stereotype. Ponyboy was not himself so he was not happy. Another cause of adjustment to one’s identity that one may destruct themself is in distinction to the video, “Identity Short Film”. All of the students who attended the high school in the video wore a mask. Every group had a different mask, and the mask represents the different stereotypes. The main character had a different mask from everybody else so she didn’t fit into a stereotype. Consequently, at the end of the film she broke her mask, so she broke the stereotypes. The main character wasn’t happy for who she was assigned to be, she wanted to be …show more content…
When people don’t fit into a stereotype or are in a stereotype that they don’t want to be in, they feel unaccepted. All people want to do is just to fit in, and that hurts their happiness. When people hide who they are to fit in, it messes with their emotions. According to Daniel Keyes’s short story, “Flowers for Algernon”, a mentally disabled man by the name of Charlie Gordon felt the need to obtain intelligence so he may fit in. Charlie went through with a surgical procedure that would gain his intelligence. During the beginning of the journey Charlie was starting to receive intelligence, and it reminded him of all his past events that shaped his life. The surgery didn’t help charlie with any relationships, it only made them worse. Charlie lost all of his intelligence, and he was back to where he had started. Charlie realizes that he doesn’t belong, and leaves to New York with nothing but his lucky rabbit's foot. Charlie is presumably going to die, he can’t survive by himself, with nothing to live off of. Charlie didn’t fit into a stereotype, so when he tried to fit into one, he wasn’t himself, therefore he wasn’t happy. Charlie is risking his life for happiness, the stereotypes permitted
People who don’t fit into a stereotype feel the need to change the way they look and act so they fit into a stereotype. According to S.E. Hinton’s novel, “The Outsiders”, Ponyboy Curtis was an outsider. Ponyboy is extremely intelligent, and wants to go to college, which makes him dissimilar to the Greasers. Yet Ponyboy is unfortunate and hangs around thugs which makes him unlike the Socs. Ponyboy dressed and acted like a Greaser so he would fit into a stereotype. Ponyboy was not himself so he was not happy. Another cause of adjustment to one’s identity that one may destruct themself is in distinction to the video, “Identity Short Film”. All of the students who attended the high school in the video wore a mask. Every group had a different mask, and the mask represents the different stereotypes. The main character had a different mask from everybody else so she didn’t fit into a stereotype. Consequently, at the end of the film she broke her mask, so she broke the stereotypes. The main character wasn’t happy for who she was assigned to be, she wanted to be …show more content…
When people don’t fit into a stereotype or are in a stereotype that they don’t want to be in, they feel unaccepted. All people want to do is just to fit in, and that hurts their happiness. When people hide who they are to fit in, it messes with their emotions. According to Daniel Keyes’s short story, “Flowers for Algernon”, a mentally disabled man by the name of Charlie Gordon felt the need to obtain intelligence so he may fit in. Charlie went through with a surgical procedure that would gain his intelligence. During the beginning of the journey Charlie was starting to receive intelligence, and it reminded him of all his past events that shaped his life. The surgery didn’t help charlie with any relationships, it only made them worse. Charlie lost all of his intelligence, and he was back to where he had started. Charlie realizes that he doesn’t belong, and leaves to New York with nothing but his lucky rabbit's foot. Charlie is presumably going to die, he can’t survive by himself, with nothing to live off of. Charlie didn’t fit into a stereotype, so when he tried to fit into one, he wasn’t himself, therefore he wasn’t happy. Charlie is risking his life for happiness, the stereotypes permitted