Women Stereotypes

ENG 220

HW. Feb 27th 2013

Women stereotypes.

Stereotypes are part of our every day lifes for decades, especially regarding women. According to the Oxford dictionary’s definition, a stereotype is a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or a person or thing that conforms to such an image.

A women’s basic stereotype would be; that she is expected to have a delicate character, to take care of the home chores and the children, to have no personal identity, and to be relatively simple, emotional, and inferior in comparison to men. As Devor said “femininity is characterized by passivity and submission.”

But also a man and a women present different social presences. A man will represent power. Thus, this power may be effective or in different realms, but the focus of its use is always external. In contrast, a woman’s social presence represents how she feels about herself and how she wants to use her appearance in society, which are most of the time is related to her stereotypes.

Women’s bodies are generally used in advertisements; because in people subconscious women are the substantial of sensuality and devotion.

Culturally and socially, a woman is born under the control of men. She is taught, trained and conditioned from early to become aware of the “dos” and “donts”. Also from an early age a little girl will already aware of what’s a “girl thing” or a “ boy thing”, as an example most of the toys given to a little girl are related to home chores, such as a small kitchen, an ironing board etc.

Whereas the ones relative to boys are more related to war, violence, independency, and game role. The same kind of stereotypes applies to the colors, pink for a girl, blue for a boy. Society is changing, those children are growing up in different atmosphere than their parents or grand parents. Less and less families are living the perfect family portrait. Which can actually bring some hope to the old stereotypes...