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Essay / The role of stereotypes in beauty and geekdom - 814
After the men arrive at the mansion, it is the women's turn. A lavish and ostentatious black limousine arrives at the mansion in which there are eight charming and wonderful women. They exit the limousine one by one, dazzling everyone's eyes with their beauty and flashy clothes. After they all enter the mansion, each of them talks to the audience about how people say they are beautiful, how they used their beauty to their advantage and they will win this competition by because of their great beauty and that. happened in the first episode. All this illustrates their self-centeredness and their belief that every problem can be solved by their beauty. This amplifies a negative stereotype towards beautiful women that the only thing they care about is their beauty and that nothing matters more to them than beauty. In most cases this is not true, but there are women who believe in this and others who have confessed to using their beauty to their advantage. A model named Cameron Russell took the stage at a TED event in Washington Dc to talk about an industry she's been a part of for nine years; modeling industry. She shares with her audience an interesting incident that happened between her and a police officer during a speeding incident. The officer got out of his car, walked toward her, and before he said anything, she said, "I'm so sorry, officer, that's not going to happen.".