What Are Stereotypes?

Since its creation in 1980, World Wrestling Entertainment has been determined to shine a spotlight on the sport of professional wrestling. Delivering up to eight hours of weekly programing and their own subscription-based online library, consumers are able to receive as much content as they please. Although the WWE product as a whole is immensely popular, it does not go without fault. While other professional sports have succeeded in showcasing all genders and races in a positive light, the same can not always be said about WWE. What separates the WWE from other professional sports in a negative manner is the constant use of racial stereotypes, depiction of women in a degrading fashion, and mediocre storytelling.

Right outside a corner store, next to a stoplight, or at a park, there may be a homeless person asking for some sort of help; it can either be for a place to stay, money, or food. Many people are used to categorizing a group of people by a solo characteristic, known as a stereotype. Misconception, on the other hand, is a conclusion of someone or something that is wrong because it is based on faulty thinking or facts. Stereotypes and misconceptions appear to be similar, however, these two are not. A misconception is formed from having a stereotype. Stereotypes and misconceptions are built because many try, but are unable to understand a person or a group, or are just simply unwilling to understand the person or group. There are over a million

Misconceptions are more deadly to other people because they are based off of no truth and can more easily offend others. As for stereotypes, which are not too bad compared to misconceptions, they are characteristics or abilities assumed and given to a certain group which may not be true to everybody, but have some truth to it. To a reasonable human being saying a stereotype to them they would understand and most likely just give a correction, but who knows some people just look for things to get offended. However when it comes to misconceptions people do not take those very lightly. People consider using misconceptions as a line of thinking as very rude and is considered ignorant to many. Then there are some people that do not know better and want a thorough understanding of their group or community. Throughout these explanations of stereotypes and misconceptions being explained there is now more understanding of what they are and where they come

From my understanding, the ad showed the switching of societal behaviors between Caucasian and African American skin colors. It exemplified how there is still unfair treatment and prejudice ideas of other races throughout the world. After examining the ad, it is easy for me to see that ad is 100% stereotypical and could possibly be offensive to Caucasians because of the switching of roles. The video depicted African Americans judging and being weary of Caucasians and this is a very stereotypical thing for Caucasians to do to African Americans. Sadly enough, it is very typical for all of the actions in the ad to be done to African Americans in real life. Also, these prejudice views and actions are not just in secluded sections of the world,

Women wrestlers are like porn stars are accustomed as Katz says “provide a spectacle for men” (Jhally, 2003), all the while emphasizing their heterosexuality. Women do minor parts in the WWE and are often seen as Katz says “bit players in a male narrative, as sexual playthings” (Jhally, 2003). Men mistreating and embarrassing women is presented as entertainment; when this happens it is nearly always presented in the context that the woman deserves it or her actions have led to the punishment. As Kat says, “when you make this sort of abuse fun and entertaining it has the effect of normalizing, justifying, and rationalizing men’s violence against women.” (Jhally, 2003). There

Misconseptions on the other hand, are derived from stereotypes of a group that have no origin for the misconseption. Misconseptions are unfounded assumptions a person does or has because he or she is in the group. For example, in the 1990’s at the height of the AIDS/HIV scare, it was believed homosexuals are more likely to contract the virus than heterosexuals. The misconseptoion has no basis or any study to back it up and future studies proved that everyone is at equal risk to contract the virus during unprotected sex, which ended the misconseption.

The example I found was a Facebook post that displayed USD’s awareness of rape that is called “What we were wearing.” This display represented what people wore the night they were raped. Each picture in the post had the outfit the victim wore and a description of how scared, silent, and confused they were when it happened. This is an example of stereotyping because it shows normal clothes, not dressy, sexy clothes that each victim wore when they were raped. The outfit varied from athletic, baggy, festive, military, and children’s clothes, which make us visualize that the victim was not asking for anything or wanting someone to attack them. I chose this post to share because of how heroic and brave each person was to share their story and a new way to end the stereotyping that the girl was asking for it because of what she was wearing.

Before the female wrestlers of the WWE started being referred to as Superstars, just as the men are, they had their own brand (known as the WWE Divas). The term ‘Diva’ could be considered quite sexist when looking back, but it allowed the WWE marketing machine to try and appeal to the of 20 to 30-year-old male demographic. It was more about the talent’s look and sex appeal than their

The media constructed the wrestlers as “clowns” in order to provide entertainment: men by extending their “macho” athlete role to contexts outside the wrestling environment, and women by framing and holding them up for ridicule inside the sport context. It goes without saying that the media representations of wrestlers as media clowns strongly contradicted their self-perceptions as athletes, more so for females than males. Referring back to Miss Representation women were viewed as sex object, uneducated and underestimated for their value with mocking images of media, while being violated on the cover of magazines.

Stereotypes, or preconceived ideas about persons or groups, are a major problem throughout this country. I did not realize how much until I attended college at Minnesota State University at Mankato, where I was one of 5 students from the Southern United States. I was asked if people ever thought I wasn’t as smart because of my accent, if I had to walk to school, if we had outhouses, if we had electricity, and the list goes on. I had been in the military and traveled across the country and had never been asked questions like that before. It must have been because they had never really been exposed to someone from the South other than television or movies as I could come to no other conclusion. The problem is much worse for minorities because larger numbers of people have and act on these preconceived ideas without realizing that everyone is an individual regardless of the color of their skin or ethnicity.

A stereotype is a fixed specific that people have about what specific social groups or individuals are like, especially an idea that is wrong. Other terms that are associated with the term stereotype are prejudice and cliché. The term has a Greek origin: stereos means solid or firm and typos mean blow, impression, engraved or mark. The term was first used in the printing business . The first modern English use of the term was in 1850, meaning "image perpetuated without

Stereotypes put people into categories, further separating humans. Stereotypes can cause people to immediately look down on someone based on their race, religion, nationality and more. A person is much more then what they can appear to be. The only way to know someone is to get to know their personality. The advertising agency, as the video states, is trying to get more Latino buyers, but as some Latinos said they can'y connect to the ads. This because Latinos are all different, even if they share similarities because of their ethnicity. If people constantly hear biased messages, then they begin believing with them. It's important to be yourself, your truest self, because if you aren't then you'd be like everyone else. If everyone was the same,

Wrestling is more than just a sport; it is a way of life. And for those who enjoy its opportunities, it is something that takes the mind off of all of life’s troubling times, and puts one man against another to get their hand raised. Competition makes everything evolve, and there is no other sport that epitomizes what competition truly is. Wrestling spans the entire globe, and although it incorporates several different styles and many National and World events, remains overlooked by most.

I have decided to look at female wrestling, more specifically I want to look at the sexualization of female wrestling in the early 2000’s. I wanted to start at the time of GLOW, The Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, but for the sake of time I figured it be a better idea to focus on the 2000’s because of how sexualized and lack of wresting there was in the women’s division. It was after GLOW moving into the 90’s and early 2000’s that women wrestlers began to disappear and “models” replaced wrestlers to gain more viewership to just become objectified objects. It’s in the last few years that wrestling has moved from models back to wrestlers. I also want to be clear that because there are so many different wrestling leagues around the world I will

To begin, there are many misconceptions about wrestling fans, the main being that they 're just a bunch of uneducated, young, barbarian men. To try and dispute some of these we will examine the viewer demographic of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). Fifteen million fans, in the United States alone, tune in on a weekly basis to watch WWE. In 2014, WWE reported that thirty-five percent of their audience was female and in reports this year has showed an increase of two percent. The increase in female viewers have been contribute to the changing dynamics of their female roster and how people have come to view female athletes. While the target audience is for individuals eighteen and younger, surprisingly WWE has reported that their