By Charlene M Brown
According to pictures, women only wear heels and skirts; have fabulous hair and are paper thin.
As I was looking for pictures, I was slightly annoyed that the overwhelming majority of pictures I find with women in them go along with this popular stereotype—the visions most often found in magazines and throughout the media.
Where is our sense of diversity!? In the United States (where I am right now), we claim to be one big “melting pot” of diversity and culture. While (whether I like the term or not), I think that is true for the most part, I don’t find that reflected in the general picture of “America.”
Where is our variation? Why is it that we do not celebrate all this rich diversity and culture and show it off?
Why is it that the only pictures I can find are the same ones I would have been able to find 50 years ago?
Okay, this is a blanket statement and not completely true, but let me generalize for a second here.
For all of America’s rich diversity and varied history, we still, largely, only present ourselves as a relatively homogeneous culture. And ironically, this is after we’ve elected the first Black President, or any non-White one for that matter.
Does anyone else see the irony here?
We have all these cultures intermingling relatively uninhibited (as compared to some other countries), yet we inhibit ourselves by staying with our own “kind” (however we define that).
I have been through many groups of people: friends, acquaintances, business partners, lovers, passer’s by in the hallways of my life, and I can tell you with 100% surety that my life has been enriched because people are so different.
And—here comes some more irony—people are actually more alike than they are different (and I have enough passport stamps to have reasonably come to this conclusion).
Listen Ladies, do me a favor. This week, get to know someone you wouldn’t otherwise speak to. Do something different; shake up your routine a little bit. Find one person, who you have always been curious about, intrigued by, frightened of, and make it a point to go over to them and compliment them on something and get a conversation started.
Just try it. Just this once. If we all start to change our own pictures, maybe, just maybe, the big picture will change!
We CAN change the world, one woman’s action at a time!
Do You Love Your Life Now!? I Do!! (because I am constantly enriched by the diversity that surrounds me!)
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