Reflection of About Men

This essay talks about one of the most controversial topics in our society; prejudice. Whether you admit it  or not, everybody has prejudice something and this is  introduce to us as we grow up. Our lives are based on prejudices and it's not our fault, it's the society’s fault. This essay is a perfect example of the use of  stereotypes due to society's ideologies. The author focuses on men’s stereotypes in this essay. It's main focus is in men’ roles in society. To show how society has been influenced by stereotypes, she talks about prejudice against cowboys. In the reading she talks about how people see cowboys, in this case the New York society. Cowboys are identified as serious men, hard workers, that show no feelings and are humorless. This is the perfect example of why stereotypes need to be corrected or proved wrong. The author  explain throughout the reading that not all cowboys are humorless and stern. She says that cowboys can have feelings like women and that being  kind and sweet doesn't make them  less masculine. I totally agree with her because I think that men are able to express their feelings. I think that expressing your feelings is more masculine than not expressing them at all. Because expressing your feelings is a hard thing and only  strong, courageous people can really express their feelings. This stereotype that tells that men can’t express their feelings is completely wrong and is all thanks to society. This is not the only stereotype that is wrong, there are others like for example: men's roles, actions,and behavior. I think that we, the modern society, need to change these old stereotypes. Maybe in the past it was normal to use these stereotypes, but things have changed and drastically. We need to stop judging people based on stereotypes given by society because a great deal of these stereotypes are wrong and most of the time they affect the people that are being judged. I'm not saying that all stereotypes need to be eliminated, because that is just impossible. What I'm saying is that most of these stereotypes are wrong. Before people use them, or make decisions based on them, they need to be sure they are not biased. In most cases, they are used wrongly, and those actions or decision can make or hurt other people.

Works cited:

Pittmann, Cynthia. About Men reflection by Batista, Gian. Class assignment UPRRP February 10 2018.