Stereotypes, do you stack up??
“Turn on your television set and there is about a 90 percent chance that the first person you view will be male. Yet, although men predominate on TV, questions come up frequently about the types of men portrayed. How do they relate to the men we know in our daily lives?
Virtually all groups of people suffer from stereotyping and men are no exception. Stereotypes are powerful because they affect our expectations of what men should and should not be like. They are damaging because they narrow our notions of what men can be and do. They affect women's expectations of men in relationships and men's expectations of other men in work settings or in friendships. Media stereotypes have extra impact because they create images based on these assumptions, helping to shape men's own views about how they should act and how successful they are as men.” (Quoted from an article by Sam Femiano and Mark Nickerson)
Well its true isn’t it? Maybe less so for a married man, but the media does manipulate the way we see others as well as ourselves. They tell you what car you should drive to show you are successful, what beer you should drink to attract the ladies, who should handle your stock portfolio if you want sound old-time judgment about you risking your money, and on and on all day all night. On the radio, on the TV, in the movies (we will discuss the advertising in movie theaters in another column…. I really hate that!)
We are constantly bombarded with images of what we SHOULD be, do, wear, own if we were successful. A husband that is kind and gentle with his family has no marketing value compared with a well chiseled man that probably spends 8 hours a day in the gym to look like that…..and they try to tell me that is what I should aspire to be like…..come on….It's because now they market to women, Women are controlling more and more money and we all know that advertising is aimed at those with the money. Now I understand what the women kept complaining about.....how can I live up that perfect image!! So what do you think……is it right to hold anyone up to a stereotype or to expect someone to behave like a stereotype?
4 comments:
Todo es un estereotipo...no solo con los hombres con las mujeres también..tenemos que tener los pechos grandes, una sonrisa muy blanca, el cuerpo bien formado, y ser no muy gordas...Y cuando llegamos a los cincuenta hacernos el face lift..porque sino pasamos desapercibidas...pero gracias a este blog, me siento diferente, gracias a la escritora que nos enseña, que una mujer es más que un pedazo de carne para el mundo y los hombres y la propaganda. Yo estoy cerca de los sesenta, estoy casada con un hombre increible..pero si tuviera que estar afuera sola y soltera, tendría las mismas dudas que Mucha tiene. El matrimonio nos dá confort y eso es lo que ella no tiene.
Es cierto. Es difícil estar soltera cuando una es grande...por no decir vieja...y ya no tiene la cara fresca, sino con arrugas ...
El estereotipo es ser joven, rubia y bonita...porque sino lo eres nadie te mira...Para los hombres es mas fácil fisicamente ya que sexualmente tienen problemas después de los 60, necesitan viagra...pero no quiero esteriotiparlos a ellos.
El articulo realmente interesante lo mismo que todo el blog. Felicitaciones Worker
Good job worker
nice writing
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