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Stereotypes In Bicycle Gun Racks, By Andy Singer

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Stereotype: A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. Have you ever stereotyped someone? Something? Anything? Taking a look at a visual argument that is made up of five cartoons that have to deal with different issues. Different issues but all rely on the same thing, stereotypes. Society has a tendency to make incorrect judgments of others based on various stereotypes that have been established over time.
To begin with our first visual argument, “Bicycle Gun Racks” created by Andy Singer. An association that many people do or do not know of, so in return they stereotype it. A black and white cartoon made up of a man that has guns and the American flag on the back of his bike, not a motorcycle …show more content…

In each cartoon there was a judgmental point proven that the author was giving on how people judge things so quickly before they even analyze or think about the cartoon. People think the NRA is a bad thing and something to be against, but in reality it is an association that is protecting us. “Whack-a-Yankee” shows the many ways the northerners are trying to fight for freedom and the southern are just knocking them down. In “Get a Job” people can think the women is someone who can’t take care of the kids but really how do the readers know that is the mother and that is her kids. The man in the cartoon isn’t even looking at the women! People judge without even knowing other peoples lives. Gay marriage in New Jersey? The readers think it would be the people in New Jersey to allow the right of gay marriage and it turned out to be the complete opposite. That is why people can not assume things because half the time it is an incorrect assumption. Lastly in “The Hoodie”, Sorensen is trying to show readers how people misinterpret and judge people when someone is wearing a hoodie. Someone can not just jump into conclusion that if someone is wearing a hoodie violence could happen. No one should ever judge a book by its cover. People never know what someone is going through until the person has stepped into their

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