The Negative Effects Of Body Stereotyping

To begin with, our club hosted several events in which we promoted anti-bullying awareness to students. We decorated the entire school with kind messages on classroom windows, like “Smile!

Chimamanda Ngozi once said, “The problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.” (Stereotypes). Many stereotypes effect us. They can also have a negative effect and those affected by it can feel insecure because they may be judged or treated because of that certain stereotype. Stereotypes are labels that are unfairly placed on people, and they affect all of us.

The Dream ideally allows individuals to succeed with little help from others. The person trying to succeed should not have to sacrifice their body to get what they want. Unfortunately, some bodies are valued less than others through out history and even in present day. Ta-Nehisi Coates really highlights the issues with “the body” in “Between the World and Me.” Many of the references to the body that he makes deal with individualism vs. stereotype of a whole race and oppression.

There is a lot about your story that expresses how I felt during high school. I avoided high heels then and I still do today because I could never figure out why anyone would go through that type of pain just to wear shoes. I wore make-up, but I never went as elaborate as my friends did. My hair had a mind of its own and it was always a curly mess that did whatever it wanted to do despite my many attempts to fix it. I wasn't called butch nor did I have problems with people spray painting negative words on my car; however, I do know what it's like to be looked at differently because of the way that I dressed. I think that stereotypes focus a lot on someone's physical appearances and I really wish that that would change. I’m pretty sure that

“ Over fifty percent of 9 and 10 year-old girls feel better about themselves if they are on a diet(3), even though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that only 18 percent of adolescents are really overweight. About 80 percent of girls in this age group say that they have dieted in an attempt to lose weight.”--Mirror Mirror Eating Disorder Help. Unrealistic body images on social media can lead to eating disorders, low self-esteem, and depression in adolescents.

Encourage student to participate on anti-bullying committees to assess and plan bullying prevention strategies; inform school personnel and parent/community groups about bullying. Engaging youth in these ways may give them confidence to speak about and solve a problem that is familiar and important to them. Offering children and youth opportunities to apply their talents and skills to take leadership and pride in their accomplishments can help change their lives and the community for the

It wasn't because I was weird, creepy, nerdy, or any of those other reasons why middle schoolers around my time deemed it ‘OK’ to dismiss another. Well, scratch that I was weird, but that weird part of me was probably the only reason why I ever had friends. Being nerdy wasn't cool, being weird wasn't normal, and that's who I was. So who else was I supposed to be? The other thing I had a problem with was my hair, the one part of me I can't really get rid of unless I shaved it all off. I had hair that could be curly and straight (the best of both worlds to some people) but in middle school if I wanted to fit in every day, I'd have to straighten my hair so I didn't have to hear 'oh I love your straight hair, when's the next time you're going to straighten it' in high school, I did change, instead of straightening my hair and daily damaging it I wore my hair curly but the people were the same but instead they said 'Oh I love your hair curly have you ever straightened it before?' How am I supposed to escape? It's not that I want to escape who I am, but how can I ever be able to express myself if I'm forever judged. I can't figure out who I am because there's people always around me trying to change

Do you want a thigh gap? Some girls do because one word about how a girl looks will mess with their heads, girls always check to see if they have a curvy body and will try to act like they have a great body and try to achieve this goal. Girls nowadays only care about how they look and it’s not healthy, they just don’t want to get made fun of because of their bodies. Girls always feel like they need to have perfect bodies because of all the pressure being put on them and/or being bullied into it or peer-pressured into it. The reason girls feel pressure on themselves is because everyone judges you on your body. Guys will only like you for your looks and not anything else like personality, interests, how nice you are. Everybody judges to soon about really nice people because they can’t see past their looks. Girls always judge other people like not so “popular” girls or people that are weird, not so social, socially akward, or people that don’t really fit in that much. Even guys get judged by girls because of looks, there’s too much pressure on girl’s to have perfect bodies because people expect you to be perfect, girls want to live up to those expectations, and that pressure is put on you.

Emergency!!!! Danger is near!! Dangers of stereotyping to be exact. There are 3 topics for my reasoning as stereotyping is a dangerous social bias. The three topics that are going to be used are “things fall apart, aria memoirs of a bilingual child, and the theme for English B.” These topics will show my argument about stereotyping.

In general, when you think of a Doctor, are they male or female? It’s more likely that most people would say male. This is due to the stereotype that doctors are usually males, not females. This stereotype evolved from the idea that women do not excel in STEM ( Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) courses compared to men. However, this is not the case men and women excel equally. Although at a young age, most girls are not encouraged to pursue an education in these fields. These ideologies cause many women to feel less confident in pursuing these fields or even being successful on tests such as math. This stereotype and many others create a feeling of insecurity in people.

Hughes, E. K. & Gullone, E. (2011). Emotion regulation moderates relationships between body image concerns and psychological symptomatology. Body Image, 8(3), 224–231. Elsevier BV. doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2011.04.001.

I have always been open about being LGBT so throughout High School I have had to face hardships. Since most people knew, they would call me slurs, as well as other mistreatments. So instead of listening their insults, I surrounded myself with LGBT positive friends. Not only did my friends help me feel better about my situation, but they helped encourage me to pursue what I wanted, instead of listening to what the others say about me. I learned that I cannot change what people think of me, but that will not stop me from putting my all into what I care

Although you mentioned that you do not believe that labeling and diagnosing necessarily results in “more harm than good,” I personally believe that because of the reasons you mentioned, it does in fact result in more harm than good. One of these negative effects includes stigmas, that may be permanent as they are difficult to ever remove once they have been applied. This may perpetuate dangerous and problematic phenomenons such as the self-fulfilling prophecy and stereotype threats that may lead to inaccurate representations of individuals that hyperstereotypes and generalize them. Like you mentioned, once these stereotypes, self fulfilling behaviors, and stigmas are linked to a person, this may affect the way others interact with

It is more based on the person to go further in life, yet many of people live trying to be the stereotypes. Many live a life they do not due to the stereotypes, but they keep doing it since it is seen normal. Some people care more about the race and go based off of stereotypes. Stereotyping is becoming worst over time even when it comes to genders as well because some White supremacies like to make any ethnicity less than them due to the fact that they feel greater. Over the years, terms like ‘white power’ and ‘minority model’ are used as stereotyping showing that they are higher than another group but these terms were dying off at some point and is starting relive in this chaos generations. As people get insecure – they start to think

Being underestimated because of the way I present myself has always been a significant challenge for me. I love wearing skirts, my favorite color is pink and I am always smiling. Being a young woman, traditionally feminine, and very friendly I’ve been met with several situations where I am immediately considered weak, naïve, and vulnerable. In first grade, when it was my turn to play kickball, everyone began shouting “easy out” told me to go sit back down. My classmates looked at me and assumed I was incapable and I was humiliated. This mindset grew into my opinions being considered irrelevant simply because my outfit somehow insists that I had no idea what I’m talking about. Both peers and adults will dismiss me when discussing any topic besides