The other day I saw a female colleague of mine with a black eye and the first thing I thought was that her boyfriend probably hit her. I don’t think that is very good, considering that I didn’t even know if she had a boyfriend.
#Stupidity provokes me
What does it say about the stereotypes teh culture has of both males and females? Females are unlikely to get hurt any other way than their male partner? Males are so violent as to be the most likely source of a black eye for a female..
The main question: Is there a difference between seeing an injured female and hearing that a car has been stolen and automatically thinking it was probably a black person? Not much difference it seems to me.
Maybe males are the leading cause of female black eyes (?), and maybe black people are the leading cause of car theft (?), but does that make it ok to assume? I’m not sure, what do you think? It is learning on one hand, but also prejudice on the other.
Whether you believe the stereotype is os, I know that if someone assumed that my dad hit my mom, I would want to hit them. My dad is awesome, and I am sure most of your dads are as well.
What does it mean when people assume that males (our dads) are aggressive, even if they don’t express it out loud? Social Psychology has shown that even unconscious stereotypes can lead to detrimental differences in behavior toward the stereotyped group. What does it mean if males, half of the population (that half generally considered to be in power) are being stereotyped?
These sorts of negative stereotypes (e.g., males are too aggressive, females are too passive) are exactly the types of things we need to end if the sexes are to be truly equal.
The movement that is underway is (or should be) about alleviatingboth genders from the harmful stereotypes that surround them. This should be the goal if we want to work
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