The Role Of Stereotypes In Beauty And The Geek

Watching television is one of America’s favorite pastimes, especially watching reality television. According to the Oxford dictionary reality television are “television programs in which real people are continuously filmed, designed to be entertaining rather than informative” (Oxford dictionary). Beauty and the Geek pairs together "Geeks" (socially inelegant nerd breeds) and "Beauties" (beautiful women handpicked for portraying bimbos), who then take on challenges to win $250,000 in prizes. Along the way the geeks are given make overs, and the beauties learn a few things about geek culture. Beauty and the geek amplifies negative a stereotype of men and women enforced by pairing smart, nerdy men with women focused on looks.

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Sim Ahmed also talked about when the producers were looking for geeks they wanted to find ones that “love sci-fi, comics, gaming and computers. They are socially-awkward, conversationally-challenged and some are still waiting for their first kiss" (Ahmed, 24-26). Throughout the entire season of the show, the geeks dress in a form where they’re shirts are tucked in with jeans unless they’re going somewhere special. So the audience get a sense of how geeks tend to dress. In episode two, the challenge was to do standup comedy where they would have to make the attendees at the theatre laugh. The crowd decides who amongst them was the funniest and the win would go that to individual’s group. What’s interesting about that challenge is that they all wore their normal outfits which by the crowd would be labelled as nerdy clothing. In episode one Scooter was asked if he remembered the number of pie and he read more than fifty digits with ease which augments his intelligence. Their intelligent after all some of them graduate from an ivy schools while the rest made some impressive accomplishment. In episode three Piqo said that his teammate Sheree always says that he talks like a geek and that she doesn’t understand what he’s saying most of the times. She assumes him to be a geek just because of his great choice of words

After the men arrive at the mansion, it’s the women’s turn. A black lavish and ostentatious limo arrives at the mansion in which in it there are eight charming and marvelous woman. They step out of the limo one by one each dazzling the eyes due to their beauty and flashy clothes. After they all enter the mansion, each and every one of them talks to the audience about how beautiful people say they are, how they’ve used their beauty in their advantage and they they’ll win this competition due to their lofty beauty and this happened in episode one. All of that visualizes their self-centeredness and their belief that every problem could be solved by their beauty. This amplifies a negative stereotype toward gorgeous women that the only thing they hold dear is their beauty and that nothing matters to them more than beauty. In most cases this is not true nevertheless there are woman who believe in this and others who confessed of using their beauty in their advantage. A supermodel named Cameron Russell took the stage at a TED even in Washington Dc talking about an industry she’s been part of for nine year; model industry. She shares with her audience an interesting incidence that took place between her and an officer where she was speeding. The police officer got out of his car, walked to her and before he said anything she said “I’m so sorry officer, it won’t happen