Gender Stereotypes In Society
Throughout the years society has differentiated in many ways. There is always something new for society to criticize about a person, especially when it comes to gender roles. Society can definitely influence how children are raised and how they’ll act when they grow up. Children will learn a lot about the world from stereotypes and the media. They will learn the differences between how men and women are treated. The use of stereotypes have been around in society for many years. What a stereotype is is a widely held idea or image of a particular type of person or thing. Society has conjured up a list of them for everything, including men. A stereotypical man would be someone who was: obsessed with sex, lazy, messy, in love with cars, addicted to video games, a shoe hoarder, bossy, and someone who can not cry or else it would lower their masculinity. A young boy has to grow up learning about these things. Society will tell him to follow their rules of being a man, and if he doesn’t, he is different from everyone else.
Just as men have stereotypes, women have them too. Female stereotypes are a bit more negative than a male’s considering terms and conditions were very different for women back in the day. A stereotypical woman is someone who: is a poor driver, is mad because she is on her period, can’t succeed in sports, can’t …show more content…
Social media and television are both places where children can see and hear different opinions from all around the world. They’ll be told they they have to look a certain way, act a certain way, like certain things; society will put ideas in their heads on how to live their life if they want to be accepted. Girls and boys nag on themselves because they don’t fit society’s ideal image and then they will grow up thinking that something is wrong with them until one day they learn something very important; society is crap and you should not let it tell you how to live your
Just as men have stereotypes, women have them too. Female stereotypes are a bit more negative than a male’s considering terms and conditions were very different for women back in the day. A stereotypical woman is someone who: is a poor driver, is mad because she is on her period, can’t succeed in sports, can’t …show more content…
Social media and television are both places where children can see and hear different opinions from all around the world. They’ll be told they they have to look a certain way, act a certain way, like certain things; society will put ideas in their heads on how to live their life if they want to be accepted. Girls and boys nag on themselves because they don’t fit society’s ideal image and then they will grow up thinking that something is wrong with them until one day they learn something very important; society is crap and you should not let it tell you how to live your