Stereotypes

Question 1

What is a stereotype?

Answer 1

a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.

Question 2

What is intersectionality?

Answer 2

This refers to the multiple ways that identity classifications are a reciprocally constructing phenomena

Question 3

What are the drawbacks of lad culture?

Answer 3

• Male stereotypes create pressures for males to act in a certain way due to pack mentality
• Male stereotype pressures could lead to sexual assault as they feel the need to live up to their ‘lad’ title

Question 4

What is typification?

Answer 4

The process of putting people into common categories which allow people to make sense of the world around them

Question 5

What are examples of race stereotypes being used for comedic value in television/film?

Answer 5

Bend it Like Beckham - British film around an indian family, comedic, parody show, they play up to their own indian stereotypes and lesbian stereotypes following the idea that a female football player MUST be a lesbian

Friday Night dinner - British TV show around a jewish family, comedic, parody show, they play up to their own stereotypes

Neither of these are made with negative connotations, they are not done to make fun or criticise but rather celebrate and educate the culture through extreme representation

Question 6

What are examples of race stereotypes being used in a serious way in television/film?

Answer 6

• Dope - Film about very intelligent black boy who is trying to get into harvard and also accidentally finds himself selling drugs. “Would you ask me why i wanted to get into harvard if i was white?” - Power sentence putting into the audiences minds that we all automatically assume that everyone fits into their stereotypes

Question 7

What are Stewart Halls 5 aspects of stereotypes?

Answer 7

1. Naturalisation -Differences are made to seem natural
2. Exclusion - Binary oppositions
3. Power - drawing light on inequalities, and deciding that that is there identity because we have that power to decide that
4. Fantasy - Things that are implied but not shown, deeper meaning, why they are different and how they are different
5. Fetishism - objectification, belittling people to their differences that we have decided their identity is for personal attraction

Question 8

What did Rubin say about Gender stereotypes?

Answer 8

• Gender identity is a suppression of natural similarities

Question 9

How are female celebrities represented on the red carpet due to female stereotypes?

Answer 9

• There is a heavy focus on their appearance
• “Who are you wearing?”
• Females aren’t asked hard hitting questions like men are
• There is a heavy focus on weight gain and loss

Question 10

How are women in the news represented?

Answer 10

• Women are to be seen and not heard
• We live in a patriotic society which means that men rule everything
• Attractive woman are used to present the male ideas in the news so that it appeals to the man