Examples Of Stereotypes In The Movie White Chicks

The Outsiders Thematic Essay Everybody wants to “fit in.” Nobody tries nor wants to be different. We all conform to the stereotypes that are set for us. It is not easy to break through stereotypes, but once it is done identity forms.

For example: The shapes of the females that were not Caucasian had more curvature at the hips and a smaller waists'.

The movie's success depends on using dated stereotypes: "angry black woman," "thuggish black man," and "innocent" white women. White men,

Finally, black women are stereotype for being gold diggers, video vixens, and jezebels. Black women that are gold diggers exchange sex for money or gifts. These women are not committed in a relationship with men. They are sexually active and seek for sexual favors (Wallace, Townsend, Glasgow, & Ojie, 2011). For example, Hugh Hefner the founder of Playboy has 3 to 4 Playboy Bunnies (girls) that live with him in his mansion. These Playboy Bunnies have sex with Hef for fan and gifts. Black women that are video vixens appeared in hip hop music videos. These women are female models that exploit their body. They can be seen dancing in videos with their boobs and butts out. For example, Draya Michele is a video vixen. She appears in many videos

When Americans meet someone new they are already sticking that person into some sort of category because of their appearance. If someone looks different than Americans are use to, they automatically stick some sort of stereotype to them. Stereotypes are strongly displayed in the media; stereotype can be based of someone’s color, culture, religion, or sex. In Black men in public spaces by Brent Staples, and in The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria by Judith Ortiz Cofer, the authors talk about stereotypes based on their gender and ethnicity and the experiences they both encounter because of their ethnicity and gender which have many similarities and differences. Stereotypes can lead

To start, stereotypes are deceptive because people place others into cliques based on their appearances. People assume everyone in a clique are the same, even though their true personality may differ from that clique. The first example from The Outsiders in which somebody doesn’t fit in with the stereotype they are given is Ponyboy. Ponyboy doesn’t quite fit in with his clique, the greasers. After Ponyboy is jumped, Darry has a fight with Pony. Darry yells at Ponyboy to think on the streets and to stay alert. Darry is concerned about Ponyboy’s safety: ‘“You must think at school with all those good grades you bring home, and you’ve always got your nose in a book, but do you ever use your head for common sense?”’ (13). Meaning, Ponyboy isn’t like the greaser stereotype. Compared to all the other greasers, Pony is book smart and not street smart. The greasers are smart where it really matters like on the streets. They carry blades to defend themselves, travel as gangs, and know how to get themselves out of a dangerous situation, if they get stuck in one. Ponyboy, however, is book smart. He succeeds at an outstanding level at school and in his academics. Once he is on the street his intelligence doesn’t follow him. He doesn’t use his common sense and he can’t find his way out of dangerous situations. As a result of this Pony gets jumped by the Socs which

Consequently, this argument is often used in the discussion of Affirmative Action. Likewise, African Americans are stereotyped as being hyper sexual. Traditional stereotypes include the stereotype of Jezebel. The Jezebel stereotype dates back to the first interaction between Europeans and Africans (Pilgrim, “The Jezebel Stereotype.”). The Europeans misunderstood the different cultural aspects of the Africans and saw it as promiscuity. During the slavery times, African American women were subject to rape due to the belief that they were property and open to sexual relationships. The movie industry further promoted the stereotypes in genres like Blaxploitation movies. Mainstream movies, also promoted the stereotype of black women being prostitutes for white men (Pilgrim, “The Jezebel Stereotype). African Americans using drugs is another example of a stereotype. Surveys have shown that most people picture African Americans as the average drug user. This may be a result of the disproportionate amount of African Americans represented in prison for drug offenses (Alexander, 126).

Labeling theory. The labels that people are given affect their own and others’ perceptions of them, leading to conformity or deviance (labels can be good or bad)Most people resist the negative labels others try to give us, however, if we hear that we a thug long enough, we may finally accept that label and start living as a thug. Black race is the most stereotyped out of many races. Due to being consistently stereotyped they really become who they are being stereotyped as. In the starting of this movie

The first set of stereotypes that all the characters back are those associated with class. Lower class people are often affiliated with little to no savings, renting properties, and living in the inner city. In the first chapter of the film, “i. Little,” Chiron runs into an abandoned apartment that is known as a crack hole. This gives context into where Chiron lives: the inner city, and more closely related to the ghetto. Chiron returns home to a barred-window apartment complex. He is merely a child who has no control over his home, so this situation speaks more upon his mother, Paula. After a few days of being introduced, she sells the television set to use for drug money. To take a bath, Chiron heats the water on the stove and uses dish soap. It is obvious that this family is a stereotypical low class family. In the second chapter, “ii. Chiron,” Paula in a similar situation, but a smaller, more run down apartment complex. She physically and emotionally abuses Chiron for money. This aspect ties into the intersectionality of being a low class African-American. The stereotype that correlates to this issue is the crack victim. Paula’s need for money stems from a need of crack. Her addiction has run her family into the bleak stereotypes of low class. In chapter three, “iii. Black,” we are invited into the home of Chiron’s friend, Kevin. Kevin is similar to Paula in how he lives in a barred apartment complex, but he has a steady

Some of the stereotypes that have become typical in popular culture are reiterated in the book Reservation Blues written by Sherman Alexie:

There are three stereotypes offered today and taught to many: the angry black stereotype: Always pointing his finger at the rest of the world and had appeared so often that it was all that people knew. The noble Negro, who was always victimized by whites and could only be saved by the good will of other whites. And the urban outlaw stereotype, which is the violent or criminal outlaw that is most popular today. What is left out is the middle class, the people supporting a family, volunteering at school, attending church, and seeking the American dream .

3) One of the films would be Erin Brockovich, were Erin is judge for being a single mom based on her appearance she is also label as a whore an example would be Ed that tells her that she looks like someone that likes to have fun, these is of course the stereotypes that society inputs on her. Erin in the film does not meet the ideologies of being femininity and at the end we see that she does succeed at work but her love life and family gets scarified by these.

Stereotypes: Generalized (sometimes accurate but often overgeneralized) beliefs about a group of people. Throughout the movie, there are a lot of stereotypes evident. The main one is that predators are bad, and prey is good. Many believed in the movie that the predators could not be trusted after all the attacks that were happening, but that was not true. The rare cases of a predator going savage was due to toxic flowers.

What I also found to be quite interesting and perhaps a weakness of the film, was the sense of performative racism that four of the main white characters utilize and how the makers of the film appeal to such a phenomenon through symbolisms as well. In the movie, there seems to be two main kinds of racism the characters exhibit, one of them being blatant racism and another being subtle racism through microaggressions. For example, Katherine experiences blatantly racist and misogynistic behavior from her coworkers, especially from Paul Stafford, the lead engineer (making groupthink much easier) and Ruth, the only other woman working in the office. On the other hand, Al Harrison and John Glenn appeal to the subtler sides of racism and performative white pity, Glenn going out of his way to shake the hands of the computers as the film attempted to paint a positive, “not-all-whites” picture of inclusion, acceptance and tolerance, a kind of racism that almost all of the white people in the film come to, by its end. Examples of this can be seen in scenes like the one in which Al Harrison smashes down the “coloreds” and “whites” restroom signs as if implying that doing so will abolish all racial inequalities with a couple of blows of blunt force. One could infer it seems, that paired with the groundbreaking stories of these three women, white people being decent human

A racial stereotype is defined as a simplistic, rigid and unfair generalization of a racial-ethnic identity. Thus the film achieves the opposite effect.