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Concepts of Gender Stereotyping

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Leather-Dressed Biker. Shopping-obsessed Japanese. Tea-drinking British. Taco-loving Spaniards. If there is an idea, it exists. To clarify, if there is the existence of a philosophy, attitude, idea, or notion regarding the social world, it exists, no matter how crazy the idea is. The logic here is that the idea itself must have had to come from somewhere. We can easily find that “social stereotypes” is present virtually every corner of the universe through the analysis of various studies conducted in America. The million dollar question is how an idea/or ideas came into existence in the first place. By examining the brain, personal anecdotes, and various behavioral tendencies in society today, we can conclude that such social stereotypes, like gender stereotyping, are simply just a product of society itself. The word stereotyping really came into popularity in the early 2000s/late 1990s during the American Reformist Movement. Since then, a negative attitude towards the word stereotyping has been cultivated. However, before we continue, we must first establish a neutral definition for the word stereotyping. Stereotyping is simply the brain making connections from prior events for the ease of mind. To be specific, “leather dressed biker, shopping-obsessed Japanese, and Tea-drinking British,” are simply the result of the brain making connections. These are stereotypes. One example of the brain in-action making stereotypes would be when I ate a cereal and ended up with food poisoning. Today, it is really hard for me to eat any kind of cereal because of its effects that it once had. Although this isn’t really a form of stereotyping, it is the same part of the brain that is used. The brain uses this part of the brain to make connections from prior events in order to ensure the safety of future scenarios. What began as a survival tool has now become the culprit of malignant and irrelevant attitudes in society today. In cases

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