Chapter 2: Stereotypes & Images.

Finally fixed my blogger! Any who, I am reviewing chapter two stereotypes and images. Stereotypes that are said about the elderly are quite typical and cliché. Life insurance companies marks the elderly at the age of 65 that they should start making future plans and arrangements. Stereotypes are said like for instance if an old person wears a bikini swimsuit to a pool people would say she's too old for that what does she have on. And even for males if he wears some of the clothing lines that are trending for children, people would have something to say. A study done in the chapter on young adults is that they seem to forget that the older age group was once in they're place. Stated in the chapter "I never knew some older people were so active.... That not all older people are mean and stingy... I learned that older people were once a young person just like me. I never thought about it before." (pg. 40). And sometimes I myself forget that my elders were once in my place and sometimes I think they just don't understand. Other stereotypes are the older they get the more boring and bitter. Although sometimes that may be the case not all of them are bland. Some old people accept the fact that they are aging and is just going to let life take its course. Then there are those that does not want to accept it with the surgeries and botox. In the chapter it says "On meeting or merely seeing a person, we determine the persons age, race, gender, perhaps other social categories like socioeconomic status. A person would always try to determine a lot just by looking and going off a book by the cover. We are in a century that is very judgmental and stereotypical but not everyone has to feed into it.