Salma Hayek Stereotypes

Media has a way implementing certain ideologies into people’s heads by reinforcing certain attributes or stereotypes for different identities. Popular media plays off generalizations to make relatable films, such as the dumb blonde or good girl falling in love with the bad body. However, this gives off a subliminal message that all people that fit into those categories act like that in everyday life. This is seen with Hispanic women in Hollywood who are often seen as the seductress or the ignorant maid, both have a certain look; these stereotypical roles generalize Latina women into two categories and appearances. However, these stereotypes are detrimental to Latinas because they judged on this basis of being hypersexual and uneducated. The …show more content…

In her introductory scene, Salma Hayek, is seen dancing provocatively in her underwear with a boa constrictor in a bar full of men. Her job is to seduce these men to feed off them. However, even when she turns into the vampire her face is the only thing that turns into hideous reptile like vampire while her body remains perfectly untouched. This shows how her sole purpose is to be sex object because if it were a true portrayal of a reptile like vampire, then it would affect more than her face. Her body would morph the same way that her face did, but it is still sexy in that little bikini like outfit. It makes sense that she is sexy to seduce these men, but once she turns into a vampire what does it matter what her body looks like. There is no reason for it to not change as well because vampires are supposed to be hideous monsters. This idea of the sexy exotic woman, usually a Hispanic woman, is damaging because it makes other Hispanic women feel that they must live up to this standard. It also makes it appear as if Hispanic women are over sexual and this can lead to a bad image for them because people use stereotypes to quickly judge one another whether they mean to or