Misconceptions And Stereotypes Of Women In The Armed Forces

Uniforms on and hair up with their heads held high. They march and train a lot to prepare them. The women stand among all those who perceive them wrongly and stereotype them. Many believe these women are physically and mentally weak, that they can’t handle situations because of their emotions. They also believe that their joining will degrade the moral of these forces and that a women’s nature could hold them back or withdraw them from their service. All these stereotypes and misconceptions date back many years. Women weren’t allowed to do many things and this issue started to lessen and years went by but it was a very long process for people to finally realize that it was okay. There are still some that find no point for women to join the armed forces and continue to believe these misconceptions and continue to stereotype them. Women in the armed forces aren’t what they seem to be, in fact they are different than people think and are the opposite of these stereotypes and misconceptions of them.
Stereotyping people is natural to humans. Humans tend to
They usually lead to wrong information and not understanding a certain group unitl there was a personal experince with them. It is clear now that we can’t really judge a book by its cover and just because a person acts a certain way the whole group does. Women in the armed forces are not physically or meantally weak but rather strong and inspiring. They aren’t degrading the morale of the armed forces but they are givin more of a unity strength to it and their nature will not hod them up to what they signed up for. It has been clear that this group was the opposite of what they were percieved as and this goes out to any other group that has many common misconceptions and misunderstandings. It’s hard to see somehing and be accurate but it’s better to experience with them than have the wrong information of them for a long