stereotypes and society
Stereotypes and Society Honestly people get judged based on first impressions, on looks or how they introduce themselves. Society puts everyone under a stereotype because of who everyone is and everybody’s appearances. People get judged if they are walking behind someone or if they are walking in front of them. Anywhere, people are judged instantly. It does not matter if the comment positive or negative. People are judged by their gender, race, actions, their speech, their culture and basically on their appearances. Gender roles are one of the stereotypical things that are judged and are happening in modern society. First reading of the essay, “Turkeys in the Kitchen” by Dave Barry, brings out that the author challenges and makes fun of the stereotypes of gender roles. Barry writes,
The man, feeling guilty, finally shuffles in and offers to help. So the woman says something like “Well you can cut up the turnips.” Now to the Woman, who hadall this sexist Home Economics training back in the pre-feminism era, this is simple. But to the man, who got his training in Shop Class, learning things he would never ever need to know for the rest of his life. (74)
Barry writes a list of questions that would come into a man’s mind when it comes to chopping the turnips. He writes about how there is now Women’s Liberation and everyone still does the same thing as what they used to do back then. The men would be watching football on the television, while the women would be the ones in the kitchen, cooking, cleaning and yelling at their husbands to watch the kids. That society still accepts the fact that everything is the same even though there is a different law.
Barry continues to challenges it by actually going into the kitchen and trying to help out, but like he quoted that he cannot make a complete difference if nobody else is willing to help and try to change. Traditions tends to become victorious, especially when the battle is on the holidays in
The man, feeling guilty, finally shuffles in and offers to help. So the woman says something like “Well you can cut up the turnips.” Now to the Woman, who hadall this sexist Home Economics training back in the pre-feminism era, this is simple. But to the man, who got his training in Shop Class, learning things he would never ever need to know for the rest of his life. (74)
Barry writes a list of questions that would come into a man’s mind when it comes to chopping the turnips. He writes about how there is now Women’s Liberation and everyone still does the same thing as what they used to do back then. The men would be watching football on the television, while the women would be the ones in the kitchen, cooking, cleaning and yelling at their husbands to watch the kids. That society still accepts the fact that everything is the same even though there is a different law.
Barry continues to challenges it by actually going into the kitchen and trying to help out, but like he quoted that he cannot make a complete difference if nobody else is willing to help and try to change. Traditions tends to become victorious, especially when the battle is on the holidays in