Monday, March 8, 2010

#2 Research Paper

First of all, I have to share that past couple of days I realized that I am not a huge fan of this persistent and exponentially increasing kind of flu which makes me sleepy all the time! After 3 days of taking what I come to call “pill cocktail“s it is still alive and making me miserable. I'm thankful though, for it created me the free time to look at many articles both related and unrelated to my topic:)
Well, I've decided to write the paper on stereotyping, specifically stereotyping of women in different countries and how it affects their lives, positive and negative. My reasons are: first, I was able to find a numerous intriguing articles that I would like to look further into and secondly, and more important for me, this subject relates to my life. My very two best friends are boys. I adore them and they have been in my life for 5 years now, through the best and worst. Although they are great people that do not approach people with prejudices, through 5 years I had to deal with many different situations in which they unconsciously stereotyped me. They thought I don't like soccer, I love it. They thought I needed to be protected all the time, I could take care of myself better than they mostly did. They thought I'm so fragile and to be handled in excruciating gentleness. They thought I was moody because girls are like that. They thought I'd nag all the time. They even tried to pay the bills at restaurants or other places because that's what a man should do. Come on! I am as equal in dealing with life as you are. But with time, they grew out of this subconscious attitude towards me and I hope with this research I'm going to understand the reasons behind this stereotyping.
Hopefully, I'm going to get well and be in class for thursday.

1 comment:

  1. oooh, sorry to hear about your flu! That's awful, get well soon!

    Your rationale for this topic is great...most of my closest friends are also males, so I can really relate to some of your examples...

    but I'm thinking you may need to narrow your context more - which countries in particular do you think you might focus on? 'Worldwide' is just too broad for this paper...

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