http://www.buzzfeed.com/skarlan/what-do-straight-people-think-lesbians-look-like
Okay so I am getting sick and tired of being classed as not gay because of how I look. I am sick of Shannon because classes of DEFIANTLY gay because of how she looks. Well that is just not right! So I decided to post a cute '101 intro to lesbian looks'. This needs to be passed around campus so that there is less homophobia/homo-sterotyping on this campus. For instance, one woman in UNA stated that people assume she is gay because of the way she looks. Not cool y'all. Gays are not dogs (we cannot be picked out of a crowd by our looks!
The problem is that I know I sometimes do this myself. What could we as a campus do to reduce stereotyping?
I also looked at this BuzzFeed post a couple of weeks ago! To be honest, I am not sure what we can do on this campus to reduce stereotyping. I think everyone, including myself even, relies on stereotypes at least at some point in their life. When Hannah was asking me about my MetroLink experiences, all my answers felt full of stereotypes about how men take up more space than women, about young, black men who listen to their music loudly rarely look at how much space they are taking up. The issue is that people believe that stereotypes exist because groups of people, whether it be women, the LGBT community, African Americans, etc. fulfill these stereotypes through their assumed beliefs and actions. Maybe it would help to have a dialogue about stereotypes and we take these stereotypical depictions of people and show that some people may seem to exemplify that stereotype, but others totally go against it. The media is no help either when it constantly emphasizes these stereotypes on the news, in entertainment television, doesn't matter. What does everyone else think?
ReplyDeleteThis definitely does need to be spread everywhere. Those responses were a mess. I think stereotypes are so deeply ingrained in our society that I'm not even sure how we can even effectively get rid of it. This video is a great start though.
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