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Gender Stereotypes In Looking For Alaska By John Green
“Alaska decided to go help Dolores with dinner. She said that it was sexist to leave the cooking to the women, but better to have good sexist food than crappy boy-prepared food.” Looking for Alaska, John Green. Gender stereotypes are determined by novelties attitude and perception parents and society's designate to their son or daughter's future. Gender stereotypes are established to each sex, but they are neither positive or negative, these stereotypes are all inaccurate generalizations of male and female characteristics.

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