Stereotypes in Media

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When I was younger I played Super Princess Peach and religiously watched the Indiana Jones movies. Idolizing their fantastical journeys to foreign lands. Never questioning Indiana’s unwanted and aggressive advances towards Willie or how he undermines all of his female companions. I thought that was just how things worked in the 80s, that’s just how Indiana rolls, never realizing how toxic he is as a male figure. As I got older I realized the problems in movies like Indiana Jones and just blamed its problems on the age it was made. But now after watching these videos I find these things kind of unsettling in these very famous and influential movies because once you put your stereotype searching goggles they are very VERY evident, only there to manipulate the plot. Writers shouldn’t rely on stereotypes to save their poor script and try to write something substantial and good. I don’t enjoy stereotypes that drive a storyline but if it’s for something that isn’t overtly offensive and it shouldn’t define a character, it would be ok in my opinion.The most troubling thing that was brought to my attention watching the videos is  the analysis of misogyny in the Big Bang Theory is all the lamp shading, just because they’re not conventionally attractive doesn’t mean they can barraid and verbally harass women like they do. I don’t feel like I’ve been personally affected by these stereotypes, that I’ve noticed and took to heart. I think society normalizes misogynist attacks and toxic masculinity that we see in pop culture at a young age and think that this is the proper way to act and to treat one another. When these ideas and thoughts are as old as time and should’ve been wiped away as we progressed as a society.

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