Sterotypes/ Free Expression

Sterotypes. There is so much to be said about sterotypes.
Blonde hair, blue eyes, tan skin and a good body…
What comes to mind when hearing this?
Barbie? Jessica Simpson?
When thinking of this stereotype many people probably automatically assume, stupid!
Of course there reasons for why people feel this way (thank you Jessica Simpson for asking why buffalo have wings). Then there are those who meet all of these qualities and still have a brain (crazy idea right? Blonde with a Brain!).
When looking closely it does seem that the media is at blame for many of these conceptions. Sticking with the dumb blonde stereotype, there are numerous characters played on television who contribute to this. AS mentioned already, Jessica Simpson seems to nail this right on the head in her reality TV show “Newly Weds”, Paris Hilton is another TV personality we can kindly thank for helping the blonde beauties of this world appear dumb .
There are stereotypes with much more substance (no pun intended) than the blonde example of course, it is just an easy example to look at in the media.
These stereotypes do stem from deeper rooted things in society in the whole world.
When thinking about it, I asked myself are stereotypes really that bad of a thing?
I really cannot answer that. I know I have never been a fan of being stereotyped no matter what type of stereotyping it was. I was the “principles daughter” in middle and elementary school (that was a blast...NOT!). This particular stereotype I don’t really feel can be faulted on the media; I think it was more of a society based thing. As the principles child you are expected to get the best grades, you are expected to win everything, but at the same time when you do find success in the things you are expected to succeed in the only reason you were able to accomplish these things was because my mom was the principle of course.
Going to back to whether stereotypes are a bad thing, I really don’t think that they are that terrible. What is it about them that are so detrimental to the world?