On and off camera

Hall states that stereotyping reduces, essentializes, naturalizes, and fixes differences. It’s kinda hard not to disagree with that. That’s all a stereotype is designed to do. It cuts you down to the most basic of degrading ideas/views and doesn’t allow you to escape from those views/ideas. I don’t see how there can be such a thing as a good stereotype. I mead anything that has to cut you down to some base level to describe you isn’t capable of being a good thing. And even though we seem to find then funny and laugh our heads off when we see them on TV in reality we find them to be hurtful and degrading to ourselves and those around us. I mean if we hear or saw a stereotype on the street we’d be offended by it, but if we saw it on TV we’d fid it funny, laugh at it and almost seem to thinks it ok. Kinda of like saying it’s not real just because it’s on TV when if fact it is very real and the fact that we ignore it on TV is very disconcerting. That kind of behavior only allows stereotypes to prosiest in the world today.