What stigmas does society need to get over?

This ties back to the first point you made, but one stigma which I wish would go away is the subconscious mindset that men have to be tough and emotionless. Even though progress has been made in recent times to break down that archaic gender stereotype, there are still many people who deem it as being a sign of weakness.

Agreed. Men are human too. Equality works both ways.

Society also needs to get over the fact that a poor socioeconomic background is not a bad thing. In fact, the entire so called class system needs to be abolished. There are no upper or lower classes, we are all equal.

And society should just accept that not everyone is interested in sex. People who aren't are given a worse reception than the most promiscuous. It's wrong that someone who is still a virgin at 50 is ridiculed while someone who gives birth at the age of 13 is untouchable and you are not allowed to call her derogatory names.

Taken from a conversation I said on snapchat with rainbow

A stigma I hate in society is the judgement some people get if they don’t “act there race”. It’s weird tho, like how in America (and also not just in US in some countries too so please don’t just talk about America as the damn only example please) lots of people expect a person to sound this race or act like it or something, like it annoys me sometimes that even people of my own race (African American) think I gotta be this way cause of my skin color or talk this way and that if I don’t I’m acting “white” or being a “traitor” or some shit. It isn’t just in the African American community I know, either way it pisses me off how people try to put a whole group of people into one definition by race to the point where people in this certain race do it to there own people, it’s hella ignorant. it makes me feel sometimes that im a complate outcast because I rarely get thosw “my brother” moments with anyone unless there just being normal nice human beings.

Don’t be “your race” be yourself.

People are just quick to judge on what they see and hear on face value, unfortunately. If something significantly contrasts with how they perceive a certain matter (in this case, how others expect people of a particular race to act), it's immediately deemed as being unacceptable. It's hypocritical, because we live in an era where archaic stereotypes and ways of thinking are being frowned upon.

I personally think the media can also be blamed for this mindset. While this isn't so much the case in recent times, many movie producers and television executives rely on stereotypical behaviours/interests to define characters of a certain ethnicity, like the cliche of African-Americans calling everyone their "brother" or Asian people all being good at martial-art. As people have consumed those movies and TV shows, it has led to the greater population forming a mindset on what people of different races are like and more often than not, people don't question what they are led to believe. To them, what they are seeing in movies and TV shows is an accurate representation of different races.

It's really a combination of general human behaviour and the manner in which the media have portrayed people of different ethnicites. The only way it's ever going to change is if the media makes progress in breaking down those racial stereotypes. We really need to see a change in the way people of a different race are represented. Instead of African Americans more often that not being associated with liking hip-hop or soul music, we should be seeing African-Americans also associated with liking rock music or electronic music. 


I agree. People should be free to express themselves however they wish and if that means women deciding to grow body hair, they should be able to do so. There are plenty of women out there who do choose to grow body hair. This is going back a few years now, but when I was 13, I remember seeing a woman (who was a worker at the waterslide park I was at) in her early-mid 20s with completely unshaven legs. She was wearing shorts, so she was obviously comfortable with how she looked.

I must admit, I thought it did look a bit gross and I would still think of it in that way, but i'm not going to judge them (or any women who decides to grow body hair) for it. It's their life, they can do as they wish. 

I wholeheartedly agree. There is no universal critique on what is or what isn't considered appealing; it's entirely subjective. The trouble is that many people like to judge without taking into account the feelings/thoughts of the other person. I honestly can't see the mindset of 'patrolling' ever changing, unfortunately, because for every good person in the world, there is always a rotten apple who doesn't care about offending others for their own personal gain. People are more often than not likely to place their own values above those of others and that's why we live in a society where people need to conform in order for them not to be deemed as unappealing or unattractive.