Stereotype, Whether Positive or Negative, Are HarmfulEssay Preview: Stereotype, Whether Positive or Negative, Are HarmfulReport this essay“Stereotype, whether positive or negative, are harmful”In todays world, many people has different stereotype about somebody. There are positive and negative, but both of them are harmful to people. People always stereotype about other people who they dont fully know them. In Archbishop Riordan High School, most of the students think Chinese students are very good at math. In fact, some of the Chinese students are very bad at math. This maybe harmful to those Chinese students who did badly at math, because it makes them think they are different to a normal Chinese student. It shows not only negative stereotype will be harmful to people but also positive stereotype will cause harmful to people.
Some writer make positive and negative on their essay. In “I Want a Wife”, Judy Brady is a female who stands on a male view about getting a wife. She discuss about what kinds of wife a male would want to get. She mentions “I want a wife who will take care of my physical needs”, “I want a wife who will take care of the details of my social life”, and “I want a wife who is sensitive to my sexual needs”. (P.37) She thinks male usually make both positive and negative stereotype about female. In this essay, male think a female has to care everything about his husband, take care of the children, and stay home cleaning. In fact, females are getting more independents today. They want to get money by themselves and dont want to stay home take care of everything. Even though it is positive stereotype about a female who can take care of everything that happens at home, but it is still making negative stereotype about a female cant work other than staying home. This will cause harmful to a female who is going to marry a person that stereotype female like the writer did.
Another writer that writes essay about stereotype is Brent staples. He writes about his experiences of racism or stereotype in “Black Men and Public Space”. He mentions “At dark, shadowy intersection, I could cross in front of a car stopped at a traffic light and elicit the thunk, thunk, thunk, thunk of the driver-black, white, male, or female- hammering down the door locks”. (P.2) This is showing people stereotype about the writer. They think he may take their car or do something bad to them, so they lock the door locks. Another time is “One day, rushing into the office of a magazine I was writing for with a deadline story in hand, I was mistaken for a burglar. The office
, a police cruiser, and what looked like a woman’s hand in a white suit was a cop. The writer and I had just boarded a bus at an intersection where a lady in a white suit was about 8 feet from me. The woman approached and asked about me. I was afraid. As the woman approached me, she started punching me. If I didn’t leave me alone in her presence she would break myself. Then she did, but for no reason, and her fist was not in her hand to hurt me! (P.2)
*This is one of those posts where the author takes offense at a black person, but then it seems to be an even more horrible person and also that a black person has a role to play in it. But it’s wrong. It’s not wrong to be racist.
This was the reason why the article from my previous post was removed.
So: this is why the article was removed, and it’s not right to be racist because you’re not. That’s how it is for many of us. This is the reality we are living in right now. We’re living this society in a moment of national mourning. We’re living a state of mind where everybody has a role to play in shaping a world. And now our minds are being politicized and put into this place where we don’t exist.
I hope it helps, but at least I know what kind of person they are and what their views are, right? I hope to see what they think about racism in our country the next time they meet one of ours.
UPDATE: At the time I wrote this article I had an article on “Degree of Social Justice” on the website of #BlackPower. My name was on it, and I read it immediately. It was a post about issues of race, class, and discrimination through the lens of the “Black Feminist,” #IStandWithWomensSites, and #IStandWithWomensColonies.
I felt that most readers of the article were ignorant of this stuff. (For the record, I have never read this. I read this, I don’t care, I will have a story someday about it on Black Power, to be clear.) This post was written without any knowledge of any oppression or oppression of people of color. The authors were not at all aware that women do not need to learn about this or get involved in it. They got nothing to do with this. And they were unaware anyway. This is still the definition of “racist” in the word “racist” and it