Personal Narrative: Stereotypes Of Young Girls

Juvenile Justice is the primary system used to handle youth who, in fact, is convicted of criminal offenses. These crimes juveniles commit each and every day are they innocuous or dangerous towards our society? Either way they are tried as adults. I´m stating the fact that when juveniles commit crime they should be treated differently from any other adult criminal.

In today’s progressive society, many genders are acknowledged and accepted. Despite this progression, there still remain many stereotypes about certain genders and even oppression of some. Personally, I identify as a cisgender female and I am rather typical of my gender. I enjoy hobbies that are considered feminine, like baking or sewing, and I have always excelled in English and Language Arts classes, which is typical of female student. However, I do deviate from the norm as I do enjoy non-feminine hobbies, including watching and playing various sports.

"Nice to meet you." I address all the boy 's calmly even though my mind is spinning.

When taking a quick scan over the headlines from the last year, most are lead to believe that today's youth, do drugs, drink, fight and have sex, because they are simply bored. The newspapers are only taking into account the negative things surrounding adolescents, instead of a positive light.

Achieving a higher education is a dream of mine. I am not your traditional college student I am thirty-one, African American female and a mother of a six year old son. Coming from a family that has little means, the thought of attempting to go to college was farfetch, something that was merely impossible to achieve. I am the second person in my family to achieve a high school diploma and the first to attend college. Growing up in Oakland Ca in a neighborhood that others seen as impoverished I called home and treated it as such. I knew my neighborhood had the possibilities of being great. I was aware of the stereotypes that was placed upon me and I decided to fight these stereotypes, by going outside of the frame of societal norms. With in my

“Ex boyfriends are just like off limits to friends. I mean that’s just like the rule of feminism” (15:15). This famous saying said by Gretchen Wieners from Mean girls is widely known and most of the time ridiculed by people. Mean Girls is a movie that portrays the stereotypical American high school life. The movie has a main focus on the girls of high school, rather then on the boys. It centers on females and how they act at that certain age. The four mean girls, Regina George, Gretchen Wieners, Karen Smith and Cady Heron represent the stereotypes of the popular girls of high school. The role of gender plays an important role in the movie. The movie discusses the aspects of how a “typical” teenage girl should be, in order for her to fit in.

I find it enigmatic hearing the stereotype that teenagers are lazy and not hard working and the topic has become ubiquitous in the past few years. Mostly adults view teenagers as lackadaisical, emotional, and lacking work ethic, which is not plausible. This generation of teenagers will need to work harder and deal with more stress than any previous generation to get a decent job, own a house, and have a family without being severely in debt most of their life, and yet they’re considered lazy. Studies show that today’s teenagers may be the hardest working individuals the United States has seen.

Within Northrop Frye’s essay, “Don’t you think it’s time to start thinking?”, high school students are represented as not being able to think and not having any sense of language as a structure because of the societal stereotype that teenagers are lazy and not driven to do their best. From schoolwork to our personal hobbies, society has been plagued by this blandly pretentious idea.

“Stereotypes have created a distortion of how every individual should be.” Taken from Jorge Robles essay, he has said it better than I could ever have. Stereotypes is harmful to our society, because it creates a negative environment and it makes people think less of themselves.

I had the typical summer, nothing boring but nothing was really interesting. Feeling pity for me that I sat at my keyboard all day playing sad songs my aunt ventured out to find me something to do. Luckily for me all of the parents from my cousin's friend group were going out on their monthly dinner and one of the moms needed a babysitter. Her oldest son was away at camp and apparently I was easier than paying for some random person to watch her daughter. This took a while to register in my brain but I was stuck BABYSITTING?!?! I have nothing against kids, I mean I personally love children, but I didn’t want to spend my summer of eating chocolate and crying over the bachelorette watching someone's child. After three weeks of complaining and getting nowhere it was the night where all the parents set out to party. I helped my aunt get ready and waited for people

“Hey guys, can I join the game? I didn’t know you guys were going to be on tonight. I found out you guys were going to be on tonight. I guess you guys forgot to

Fairy tales are read to children at a very young age. In today society, many children believe fairy tales are real which reflects negatively on children. The story of Cinderella is widely known across the world with many different versions of this folktale, which portrays gender stereotype throughout the tale. When reading The Cinderella, it shows how unattractive looks can lead to mistreatment by society. As children would grow up, physical appearance would be valued more over inner beauty causing bullying in schools and discriminating among others with low socioeconomic status. In addition, the story provides unequal freedom between men and women where women are trained to become good housewife and to please a man through her looks, and following with marriage. As oppose to men who make their own choices on life-partner, marriage and other important life-changing decisions. Throughout the story, the character of Cinderella is portrayed as a passive, vulnerable, and

When I was 4 I knocked out my two front teeth. I was chasing my imaginary brother around a chair. You know the only child usal. So I was sliding off the arm of the greenish gray chair in my living room but then after awhile I forgot what I was doing and how I was doing it and so then after a little pause I jumped off the arm of the chair instead of sliding off and then I hit my two front teeth on my petite pink play kitchen ,and apparently that was enough force to cause my teeth to fall out. After that I started throwing up stuff that looked like chewed spaghettiOs. The worst part was I stained my white polka-dotted dress. Ok maybe it wasn’t the worst part. The worst part was looking silly (stupid) for two or three

It was a warm spring morning in May when my mother and father headed to the hospital to give birth to a little girl. On May 18th, 1998 at 7:34 a.m. I, Allison Michelle Keitel, was born. A lot has changed in these past 18 years, but growing up in a time period between “the good old day” and technology was one of the best generations to live during. Getting to roll around in mud with my siblings and playing outside everyday was one of my favorite memories, however, my generation is also the first generation to grow up with technology. We were born in an era of change. All of the changes I have encountered in my 18 years of living have shaped me into the woman I am today. Since 1998, the perception of women has changed the most. Women have always had this pressure to have the “perfect” look, until our generation has been changing the way women feel forever.

Gender roles, also known as gender stereotypes, are social and cultural norms on how females and males should conduct themselves within a society. Every culture has certain roles both genders are expected to follow. An example of this in traditional American culture is a man becoming a doctor while a female becomes a nurse or men being the hard workers and women being stay at home mothers. Gender development researchers, similar to other developmental researchers, focus on questions of change over time in gender related subjects (Ruble and Martin 1988). Research suggest that children are socialized to understand gender stereotypes at an early age. In fact, a study done in 2006 by indicated that children before 3 years of age understand concrete