WGST 1808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Masculinity, Tamale, Bimbo

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 1808
• Professor: Debra Graham

Document Summary

Types: specimen types an example that serves to anchor the defining features of that particular organism; social types myers-briggs type indicator personality inventory designed to identify preferences within the parameters of 16 types. Stereotype: a conception of a person or group that reduces, essentialized, naturalizes and fixes difference . Stereotyping tends to occur where there are inequalities of power, ex sexism, racism, heterosexism; influenced by media, uses stereotypes so the audience can quickly grasp the character, it reduces the time and exaggerates the message. Based on the gender binary, different and limiting expectations for boys and girls . The top stereotypes from cradle to grave: tomboy, sport, girl next door, bimbo, femme fatale, bitch, feminist, yummy mummy, soccer/hockey moms, stepmothers, spinsters/old maids, old hag, cougar, yuppie, nurturer, nature-man, metrosexual, androgynous-man, lad. Androcentrism: male centeredness, viewed against this standard, women/girls appear less (than) human, the other .