FVS 1013, 02-25-09
OU Union Meacham Hall 6:00 W
Classroom experience Professor Boyd
Film Screening: Singing in the Rain
Gender stereotype
AFAM 4233, 02-25-09
Bizzell Library 102
Classroom experience Professor Butler-King
Film screening: Boyz In The Hood
The whole movie
Racial stereotype
02-23-09, 10:00PM
Personal conversation with Zak B.
University Greens
Conversation about the characteristics of minority women
Racial & Gender stereotype
02-24-09, 5:05PM
Magazine Ad
Men’s Fitness Magazine, March 2009
Men’s fitness magazine with a picture of a very fit, well-known actor next to the words “Great Sex: How to Make Her Want More”.
Gender Stereotype
02-24-09, 5:13PM
Magazine Cover
Sports Illustrated
Picture of a woman with a bikini resembling a globe painted on her body with the caption, “Brooklyn Decker shows you the world”.
Gender stereotype
02-26-09 VH1 Network, 10:17PM
Television
I Love Money Commercial
Both men and woman half dressed doing inappropriate things in order to win a completion
Racial and gender stereotypes
02-26-09, 11:45PM
Personal conversation with Shar C.
Via Phone
Conversation about how some people justify not being racist because they have friend(s) of different ethnicities
02-27-09 10:00AM
Bumper Sticker
Obama Biden campaign sticker had been changed to Osama Bin Ladin
Racial stereotype
Reflection:
Honestly, I was not surprised with the amount of stereotyping that exists. I was more so surprised with the location of where I could find the location of the material. There were a lot of things that I saw in Seventeen magazine that really shocked me. The idea of seeing a 15 or 16 year old girl in her underwear riding a bicycle suggesting that girls should do their suggested workouts on the following page to get legs like the model was appalling. During my freshman year of college, I took a Philosophy class and we had an assignment similar to this one. There were a few ads we looked at that really disturb me as well. One the ads featured three middle school aged kids at a science fair. Each one was representing first, second and, third place. All three consequently, were of three different ethnicity groups: first place going to the Caucasian female, second place to the Asian female and third place to the African-American girl. Another ad was of an African-American male barbecuing in his backyard with no shoes on and an apron that read “Kiss the Chef” with a monkey logo on it. I am sure that you can see the “hidden” meaning behind both of these ads. As a minority, dealing with stereotypes in personal and/or social experiences is something that I have learned to deal with. However with that said, it is not something you get use to. It’s annoying to constantly be viewed as the “loud, ghetto, and obnoxious” woman just because that is what the media portrays of the women who look like me. Or my favorite saying when you don’t fit the stereotype of a black person, “they aren’t black enough”. Unfortunately, the media plays an important role in everyday life. What is on the television, magazines, billboards, internet, radio, et cetera is what we, the American people, pay attention to the most. Although it is not always accurate, it is a teaching mechanism. It will be up to a new generation of people who are willing to not only change the type of television shows, and other forms of mass media, and educate there viewers on all aspects of culture. Not just the defaming characters that help create these stereotypes we place on other people. We need to place images on the big screen that not only instill positivity, but educate people and make them more aware of what a person can be rather then how they are limited by the color of their skin.
