#steretypes

[ageingpa]

Improving with age – our perception of growing old needs some get up and go

Growing old gracefully with a spring in your step.

This month I wrote a piece for The Conversation, outlining how sport and physical activity might be used as a vehicle to challenge dominant assumptions about the ageing process. 

Click on the title above to read the original article.

[crossfitjesusinblackskinnyjeans]

Just because I'm bisexual and I'm in a relationship with a man, doesn't mean I'm not sexually attracted to girls And vice versa. Who are you to tell me who I can and can't like?

[aspiestvmusings]

Question/Thought: Am I weird or are others/society weird?

I am the only person around here/I know who does not believe or understand at all the standards that our western society has - pink is girls colour and blue is boys colour, boys don’t have long hair and girls don’t have short hair, boys shouldn’t play with dolls and girls shouldn’t play with cars. And the million other small details. The kids have one quite “progressive” grandma, who is not so strict about stereotypes, but not as loose about it all as I am. But... Sadly the media (tv, cartoons, books), the environment (other kids in kindergarten, friends, family...especially grandparents aka older generation...), and everyone and everything else uses the “traditional beliefs”, and I am alone with my thoughts and views. And sadly I even have to hear the 5-y-o & the 3-y-o sometimes say things like “I don’t like that dress - it’s in boy colour”, no matter how much I try to share my view on things...since everyone else preaches the opposite (it’s scary how much other kids/friends from kindergarten influence kids)... it starts sticking to them... and it makes me so sad... 

  But this (small things at times) is nothing compared to what I have overheard others/parents say regarding (their) kids. Basically shaming their kids....imo And I understand that if someone working in fashion industry (designer, etc) reads this, my view is not understood, but it made me so sad when I heard the following this week: a mom to her pre-school kid “Do you really wanna go outside wearing that? (an outfit the kid chose) Because I am embarrased to be seen with you/for you - green pantyhose and those different bright colored shorts, and that top, and... its such a mix of colours, and it just looks weird.” (she used another word, but I can’t remember which...but this was the message). And finally the mom went - “ok, if you do not want to put on different clothes, then if people stare at you/us, then please tell them that you picked out the outfit yourself”. (did the mom really feel embarrased about a toddlers “not matching/colour-coordinated” outfit and how others looks at her/her kid”?? What is this world.)

I witness similar things too often. People/Parents and their very limited view on things. How people have been taught all their lives that this is right, and that is wrong - the social norms that are actually restrictions, and not good. But I understand - those parents were taught the same way, and this info is so ingrained in heir brains that they do not even understand that their view on those things is saddening. (Or may I am the weird one, and just like you just do not wear white socks with black suit, you do not also dress like a “hipi”). What those people fail to understand is that the change starts with them - if they stop seeing outfits picked by kids as weird, so will those other people (at the restaurant, on the street). If they/everyone stops believing in those kinds of “norms”, it stops being a topic to worry about. The obsession to impress others, and do things for others/society saddens me. I get it - a stylist can cringe seeing a non-colour-coordinated outfit (even on a toddler, but why on earth should it matter to anyone else). Who stares and judges? 

The situations are all different - from girls not giving pink ballooons to boys, , cause its a “girl colour”, to parents/grandparents forcing stereotypes and “social norms” on small kids. to... whatever. Almost every time I have to attend an event with kids (playdate, birthday...anything else) I witness a situation that makes me so sad about this world, and how even the next generation (kids today) are being taught the old-fashioned stereotypical thinking. 

Am I the weird one or are others the weird ones?

[true-stereotypes-blog]

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[happilyscentedstrawberry-blog]

"We trying to buy back our 40 acres And for that paper, look how low we a'stoop" -Kanye West "All Falls Down"

[blackwomenconfessions]

C: I really do feel isolated as an African-American woman. Everything about our culture is being stolen and it feels like we have nothing anymore. Caribbeans, Africans, etc have their own culture and know who they are but we, as African Americans, can’t have anything to ourselves because it’s all taken from us constantly and it kind of makes me sad because the things that make us unique is stolen constantly.

[asiyali]

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[civildotcom]

But she’s from every “Continent” in Africa.

“I Wont Hire You If You Have Black Name… Sorry!” - Raven Symone

Dear Raven Symone,

Ignorance is not bliss. How about you trace your roots back to every “continent” in Africa. Your comment’s made on The View were not only ignorant and childish but more seriously a continued link to the chain in the racial divide we are dealing with here in American. These ideas are the overtones of how racial stereotypes are used as an disadvantage to a people in the workforce. To judge a person based on their name that you presume as “ghetto” instead of respectfully cultural screams of racial hate and since your legally a black women named after a bird, one would assume your even dealing with a little self hate. Not to mention Appearance.Your comments were made were made by a gay women with a red mohawk weave... {SOCIALLY UNEXCEPTABLE}

In the words of Drake “Know Yourself, Know where you at”

Word of advice: Stop letting your ass speak for your mouth.