Women Were Still Stereotyped in 1998
According to its dictionary definition, a stereotype can be an innocent thing, a mere stencil, or a preexisting form or stencil that can be used to make a template for an image. However, when a stereotype is a cultural and a psychological rather than a physical or artistic device, and is wielded against an entire gender, and filled with the copier's notions of correct behavior to the extent that it limits the ability of another person to be a fully functional and fully fledged human being, the stereotype must be questioned and subsequently broken down.
In 1998, although feminism was officially en vogue, the popularity of "chick lit" was at its height, and speculations about it being easier for a woman to be killed by lightening than to be married over the age of thirty or so had become less vociferously promoted by the media, there was still a notable cultural prejudice against women. Stereotypes that limited, calcified and smothered rather than sustained a fuller conception of what it mean to be female were still expressed and held within the American cultural dialogue and framework.
In seeking hard evidence for this fact, one must first ask what are the most detrimental stereotypes about women. According to the stereoyped, female gender role, women are considered to have more social qualities. Women are traditionally perceived to be more emotional, sensitive, supporting, gentle, kind, and affectionate than men. In contrast, again, according to stereotype, men are assumed to possess more "agentic" qualities, in terms of having the extroverted qualites of independence, assertiveness, competitiveness, daring, and courage under fire --...
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