You know, at first when I read the OP's post, I understood the annoyance, but figured this:
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Originally Posted by MysticCat
And of course, any intelligent viewer of Glee considers the source: this is Puck we're talking about, whose comments on matters like this rarely should be taken at face value -- they say more about him than about the girls he's talking about.
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Puck's character is a womanizing jerk, so consider the source.
But, the more I read through these comments, the more I thought that we, as a Greek community, SHOULD fight back against negative stereotypes when we see them in popular media. How can we expect people to stop perpetuating these stereotypes if we don't make it known that they're unacceptable?
This doesn't mean that we have to become rabid extremists about it - nobody likes "that guy". But an organized, ongoing, respectful reproach of this kind of rhetoric might do us all a lot of good. Our organizations spend so much time, energy, and resources to be so much, much more than the one-dimensional characterizations we get in the media.
This also leads me to a general complaint about the way women are portrayed, both in the media, and by society - slutty stereotypes are perpetuated for ANY group of women or girls. Glee has used the "slutty cheerleader" trope since the beginning of the series. Friday Night Lights used to do the same thing about the rally girls. Any mention of an all-girls school gets pretty much the same reaction. And these are MINORS we're talking about. The flip side is when women are "prudes" with no sense of humor or any other redeeming qualities.There's this razor thin line between slut and prude that women are supposed to balance on, and any deviation from it is socially unacceptable. I think that this has just as much to do with that "EZ DZ" comment as general Greek stereotypes.
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