Movie/Television/Commercial stereotypes

[JBGRAY]

  I do not watch much TV.  When I do, my "cultural antennae" are always up.  I've encountered the following stereotypes en masse:

- Hot, beautiful women kicking multiple full grown men's asses....usually a choreographed fight with the woman at the end unmarred and in some half-provocative pose.

- Blacks always being portrayed as a professional such as a lawyer, doctor, engineer, scientist, or a high-ranking official.  They are always smart and intelligent.  Movies and TV shows always seem to want to stick a few black actors/actresses in almost everything, even if the locale makes no sense(like Maine or Nova Scotia)

- In commercials, the white guy ALWAYS gets shown up by his minority or female counterpart.  The white guy is always portrayed as weak, awkward, weird, and unsure of himself whereas the minority/female looks sharp and often looks down on the white guy for being so stupid.

- Major villains are nearly exclusively white, along with their henchmen.  Look at the Matrix movies, for instance.  Not a SINGLE bad guy was non-white.


This is not necessarily anger on my part, but a curiousity.  Why are these stereotypes so prevalent nowadays?

[Mr. Magoo]

10 dollar bet

you're white?

[JBGRAY]

You win!

[King Shizzo]

  I do not watch much TV.  When I do, my "cultural antennae" are always up.  I've encountered the following stereotypes en masse:

- Hot, beautiful women kicking multiple full grown men's asses....usually a choreographed fight with the woman at the end unmarred and in some half-provocative pose.

- Blacks always being portrayed as a professional such as a lawyer, doctor, engineer, scientist, or a high-ranking official.  They are always smart and intelligent.  Movies and TV shows always seem to want to stick a few black actors/actresses in almost everything, even if the locale makes no sense(like Maine or Nova Scotia)

- In commercials, the white guy ALWAYS gets shown up by his minority or female counterpart.  The white guy is always portrayed as weak, awkward, weird, and unsure of himself whereas the minority/female looks sharp and often looks down on the white guy for being so stupid.

- Major villains are nearly exclusively white, along with their henchmen.  Look at the Matrix movies, for instance.  Not a SINGLE bad guy was non-white.


This is not necessarily anger on my part, but a curiousity.  Why are these stereotypes so prevalent nowadays?

Racist post reported.

[magikusar]

  I do not watch much TV.  When I do, my "cultural antennae" are always up.  I've encountered the following stereotypes en masse:

- Hot, beautiful women kicking multiple full grown men's asses....usually a choreographed fight with the woman at the end unmarred and in some half-provocative pose.

- Blacks always being portrayed as a professional such as a lawyer, doctor, engineer, scientist, or a high-ranking official.  They are always smart and intelligent.  Movies and TV shows always seem to want to stick a few black actors/actresses in almost everything, even if the locale makes no sense(like Maine or Nova Scotia)

- In commercials, the white guy ALWAYS gets shown up by his minority or female counterpart.  The white guy is always portrayed as weak, awkward, weird, and unsure of himself whereas the minority/female looks sharp and often looks down on the white guy for being so stupid.

- Major villains are nearly exclusively white, along with their henchmen.  Look at the Matrix movies, for instance.  Not a SINGLE bad guy was non-white.


This is not necessarily anger on my part, but a curiousity.  Why are these stereotypes so prevalent nowadays?

hope sells

[sync pulse]

 - Major villains are nearly exclusively white, along with their henchmen.  Look at the Matrix movies, for instance.  Not a SINGLE bad guy was non-white.

British with them speaking "Received Pronunciation..."

[Andy Griffin]

  I do not watch much TV.  When I do, my "cultural antennae" are always up.  I've encountered the following stereotypes en masse:

- Hot, beautiful women kicking multiple full grown men's asses....usually a choreographed fight with the woman at the end unmarred and in some half-provocative pose.

- Blacks always being portrayed as a professional such as a lawyer, doctor, engineer, scientist, or a high-ranking official.  They are always smart and intelligent.  Movies and TV shows always seem to want to stick a few black actors/actresses in almost everything, even if the locale makes no sense(like Maine or Nova Scotia)

- In commercials, the white guy ALWAYS gets shown up by his minority or female counterpart.  The white guy is always portrayed as weak, awkward, weird, and unsure of himself whereas the minority/female looks sharp and often looks down on the white guy for being so stupid.

- Major villains are nearly exclusively white, along with their henchmen.  Look at the Matrix movies, for instance.  Not a SINGLE bad guy was non-white.


This is not necessarily anger on my part, but a curiousity.  Why are these stereotypes so prevalent nowadays?

Not to mention that gays are almost always the "voice of reason"    oh, brother   

[Nicademus]

10 dollar bet

you're white?

 

[BIG AL MCKECHNIE]

You rarely see a white male judge in american films or tv shows except for the old pervy guy in ally mcbeal who like to look at teeth.

Judges in america are either black men or black women.

Always