American culture belittling Caucasian women?

Question

I am writing an essay on how the american culture belittles women. Caucasian women to be exact. I have already started it but would like some further input, and opinions.

Resources would be great. Open-minded thinking is awesome too.

Answer 1

Um i can't really help you much since from my understanding hispanic and black women are the ones being belittled! I usually don't see white women on video's shaking their *** or getting degraded! If hey d it's by choice...i think white women are simply stereo typed by being dumb and ditsy by people of other races which  of course is very ignorant and racist but that's how society sees it!  

Answer 2

I’m going to have to agree with some of the users that American culture (the media) in general belittles and degrades women of all races. But I will also say that this behavior is characterized more in color, for example,

Black women are seen as being overweight, loud, aggressive, husbandless (but have kids); ghetto, gangsters, gold diggers, and “rump-shakers” in videos. And the bad part about it is that most of our own men portray us that negative light, and some of our women live up too it.

On the other hand, Hispanic women are pretty much the same in comparison to black women. Being seen as baby mothers, either being in and out of jail, gangsters, “hood rats”, wear little or nothing when it comes to clothing, illegal, over sexual, with many kids, lots of make up (the high dark eyebrows, and dark lip liner). They too are seen as being ghetto and shaking it in the videos.

Then, you have the Asian women that dress in the school girl type outfits (like in Japan), seen as working in massage parlors as prostitutes, or as someone else put it, always smiling, submissive and says very little.

Middle Eastern women are always dressed in the burkas, never saying much, submissive to their husbands or the men in their families with little or no rights.

But when the white women are portrayed, they’re seen as rich, blond hair blue eyes, thin, high classed, privileged, but looking for a good time. Sometimes they’re seen as S****y and “loose”, out to make daddy mad with whom they chose to bring home; but every now and again they “slum” in the ghetto’s with the Black and Hispanic guys looking for a rush from their boring and routine lives.

If you ask me, all these representation are wrong, inaccurate and are negative portrayals of all women as a whole. When you actually take a look at the big picture, Caucasian women are shown in a much brighter light than the rest.  They’re seen as the women who have opportunities to make it in the world, and make a difference in the lower income communities. Anytime you see a movie where a woman is being shown as honorable or courageous it’s always a Caucasian woman playing the part (i.e. Courage Under Fire, Dangerous Minds, The Aliens Trilogies less the last two, Freedom Writers). America always portrays the Caucasian woman as being the women who fight for what’s right, and to make the changes in society that women world wide show gratitude for (Iron Jawed Angles). When Caucasian women are shown as being sexual, it’s considered as being “sexy” and “hot” (Madonna and Brittney’s French kiss, Kim Catral in s*x in the City). But when women of color do it (Lil’ Kim, or Foxy Brown) it’s vulgar, immoral, and should be banned. So I really don’t think that Caucasian women suffer the brunt of ridicule and generalization that women of color do on a daily basis. And we suffer this not only from society as a whole, but our own men join in on the fun with out even thinking about how it makes us look as people.

Answer 3

I wasn't aware that the american culture was belittling Caucasian women.

Answer 4

I think it belittles women period. It makes white women look like they're weaker, but when they do have some power to all of a sudden be ball-busting shrews. It makes us think that Hispanic and Asian women are supposed to be submissive and that Black women have no respect for anything.

Answer 5

White Women: They have eating disorders, the blond ones are dumb, the brunettes are bitter and mysterious, and the redheads are angry.  They trip and fall in horror movies, they're constantly whining about their weight and they're passive.

Black women: They're sassy, they roll their eyes a lot, they're always single parents, they're all on welfare

Asian women: They like to drink tea and give massages, they're either passive and weak or dominant karate experts.  They smile a lot.

Middle Eastern women: Passive, submissive to men, willing to blow things up on cue.

Hispanic women: Should be labled "flammable", since they're so HOT and SPICY.  They have lots of kids.

There. How's about them stereotypes?

EDIT: Just so you know, people, I'm just listing stereotypes.  I don't actually believe these things.