Stereotypes

There are many stereotypes of male and females. Typical ones of women are loud, gossipy, emotional and accommodating, whereas some typical traits of men are self-confident and aggressive. These beliefs have been around for decades and decades, and are even represented in various movies and books. In Mean Girls, the three main characters are a good representation of it. The three most popular girls at school are mean and backstabbing, and makes other women think that in order to be at the top of the social hierarchy, that is what you have to do. Instead of putting other women up, they have to put them down in order to feel better about themselves. There are countless of other movies that show the same thing and that is not true at all in today’s society. Others are not going to like you, want to be your friend, or even respect you if you are nothing but rude and disrespectful to them. In the study we read in class about if women were really more talkative than men, I feel like it was based on the belief that in addition to talking about everyday things, women are constantly gossiping and chatting about irrelevant things. I don’t know if the study was super accurate or not, based on the random 30 second slots of data, but I think how much you talk really depends on who you are and not your gender. Stereotypes are hard to get rid of because they are so popular and it’s hard to make people give up their beliefs once they have them, so studies like this won’t do much in the long run. In order to change how people think, you have to do it over a period of time and teach the future generation differently.