I am being portrayed as some kind of a medieval monster ... a megalomaniac. If the people were to really believe all that the press has written about me then I must be the most evil person in the country today.
The press portrayed me as a joke and a clown.
There are lots of bad Republicans, there are no good Democrats.
That's what media do. They make you out to be a monster.
I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man.
We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
For us as Asian-Americans, I think the bane of our existence is one stereotype - 'Sixteen Candles,' the Long Duk Dong character.
Using the word 'bossy' for girls can be quite harmful. What is that saying - that being focused, being assertive, being the boss has a negative attribute? And I have heard that term associated more with women than with men. 'He's so bossy' - you don't hear that. It's a very subtle thing.
Sometimes, you get portrayed the way you don't want to be portrayed.
Isn't it wrong to target and brand an entire state in a poor light?
The notion that Jews are mythic creatures is well circulating in our culture.
Males and females can both have a fixed mindset about math and science, but it hurts girls more because they are on the negative end of the stereotype.
I do not want to be cynical, but if developing nations are kept backward by being told, again and again, you belong to the poor and you are there, where you actually belong, then nothing will change.
I guess they often cast me as the bad guy, because I'm not, er, conventional looking. I look sort of violent. I'm the odd one out, the outsider.
I for one don't want to be ranked among idiots, felons, and minors any longer, for I am none of them.
I'm ashamed to say, I've done hideous pen portraits of people I don't like in my novels. And they'll say, 'Oh, that person was hideous,' and I'm nodding, and I'm thinking, 'It's you, you fool!'
Black women are so very often stereotyped in pop culture.
I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.
There's so many, 'no, black people aren't like that' barriers in mainstream media.
