-Stephanie
Monday, March 7, 2011
STEROTYPES
Sterotypes are a large contributor to the looking glass self. People are often judged not even by there appearance, but by the activities that they are involved in. For example, in high school I was a cheerleader, I feel that people often judged me right off the bat simply because I was wearing my cheer uniform. They may have said that I am stuck up, preppy, annoying and peppy, and an air head. One time we were doing an exercise in class called "I believe that...." and everyone got to fill in the rest of the sentence, one girl stood up and said, I believe that all cheerleaders are air heads. This really made me angry, I stood up in class and said actually I have a better GPA than you do and more than 80 percent of the cheerleaders have over a 3.2 GPA so you don't even know what you are talking about. I got judged for how smart others see me just because I enjoy an activity, which is absolutely ridiculous.
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It shouldn't matter what sport or activity someone does in order to "classify" them as being smart or well-educated. Most student athletes have to maintain a GPA of 2.5 or higher, and many students, like myself, from my high school were honor students who received many athletic awards of "High Honors." Sure, it is hard to maintain good grades while partaking in a sport or extracirricular activity. But, it is even better to exceed your expectations. Judging people, like Steph, because of the sport she did isn't right because knowing her personally, she is a very intelligent person.
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