What
stereotypes about girls and women did you find?
I
found the stereotypes that are about how women act in a
relationship, the idea that they care more than man or that they are
more sentimental, between others.
What
stereotypes about girls and women were dispelled?
They
didn't dispel any stereotypes about girls and women, they only showed
straight forward ones.
Were
the stereotypes positive overall, negative overall or a combination?
I
think, at least for me, that they were a combination of negative and
positive things. For one part, negative because they showed that they
are too sentimental and care in an almost exaggerated way in
relationships,both, in a ridiculous way. For the other part, positive
because I find kind of cute that they are sentimental and care about
there relationship.
Were
you surprised by your findings? Why or why not?
I
wasn't surprised by my findings, because (since it's a stereotype) I
knew how they would show and represent women and girls, with that in
mind I knew that they would present those stereotypes in a mocking
way, so in overall I was conscious of what I was going to find.
Do
you have any general thoughts or conclusions about how women and
girls are portrayed in the media?
Yes,
my thought about how women and girls are portrayed in the media is
that they are shown in two ways. The first one as weak, sentimental
and look-caring individuals and the second one as depending of men
and housewife (this one being a more old and sexist stereotype than
the first one).
What
do you think is the impact of these messages on individuals
(especially girls and women) and society at large?
I
think that the impact of these messages in individuals are various.
For one part, girls and women start believing the things that the
media shows, with that they start getting a wrong and unconscious
idea of themselves and what they are supposed to do (of course there
are exception, but this is speaking in a general, and maybe kind of
old, vision of stereotypes). For the other part, the society it's the
same idea but in this part since it also involve men its more about
the role and acting of women, it shape the way we (as persons) see
women (again, there can be exceptions).
Do
you think producers of media have a responsibility to portray women
and girls in ways that defy stereotypes? Explain.
Yes,
I do think that producers of media have a responsibility to portray
women and girls in ways that defy stereotypes, because I think that
we, society, have the right and obligation of knowing how we are for
real (I also believe in the correct representation of men) and that
is because we live with each other, we really need to know how the
other really is to interact in a correct way. And other reason is
that the stereotypes affect how girls and women see themselves as
persons, they can start believing things that are not true or acting
how they don't want to act.
Go
back to the semantic web and the overall categories of stereotypes.
Do your findings reflect those stereotypes? Are there additional
portrayals?
My
findings reflect one of those stereotypes “Relationships: overly
concerned with romantic relationships” , this one being the main
point and idea of the whole video I choose. There are not any
additional portrayals of women presented in the video.
What
did you learn by doing this activity?
I
didn't learn anything new about stereotypes, all the ideas of
stereotypes of girls and women that where shown I knew them. What I
did, instead of learning, was more like an improvement and focusing
of ideas about the bad things of the portrayals of this stereotypes.
How
can people (as the consumers of the media) avoid being manipulated by
the media and not internalize the messages being conveyed about girls
and women?
I
think that there are two ways to avoid being manipulated by the media
and not internalize the messages. The first one is to avoid the media
in general (almost in possible). The second way is to be critical,
you don't have to believe everything that the media tell you and you
have to know that they are trying to make you feel/believe/etc.
something. Also, you have to act first like a person, knowing that
each human being is different.
