I enjoyed the reading about stereotypes in this section. Many commercials and ads portray athletes on TV the way that we seem to envision them. The media forms our opinion on how athletes should look as well as what they should act like. I believe that we should be in charge of how we view others. You don’t have to go further than the first ad to see that. The first ad shows a tennis pro looking at a group of girls and at first sees all Serena Williams. Serena Williams had had a successful career, but the ad makes it seem like all tennis players need to be like her. The ordinary girls that were actually in the commercial do not have the athletic body that Serena Williams has, but they look normal which isn’t a bad thing. The very next article shows a man clearing a jump in the pole vault. It looks like an ordinary man right? Wrong. If you look closer you can see that the man is missing a leg. As a pole vaulter in high school, I cannot even fathom how to jump with only one leg. Most of pole vaulting is footwork and leg strength and it is incredible to see this man with only one working leg clear this height. This guy successfully busts stereotypes that the media has forced upon the public.
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