"Calling someone stupid doesn't make you any smarter."

Many people talk about how it's wrong to stereotype others, but they may not realize they do it every single day. Just walking down the halls, it becomes easier to judge someone by what they look like, their clothes, or who they hang out with. Everybody knows that they do it. This past week, we welcomed an incredible speaker Dr. Mykee Fowlin, to speak to us about how it feels to be that person who is mistreated every day. His presentation touched every person in our auditorium with his powerful words. He mentioned how easy it is to stereotype a person based on their outside appearance, but you never truly know the struggles a person is going through.

 In the literature we read this week, Anne Bradstreet displays how Puritan women can show deep emotions, too. Even though Puritan women are not supposed to reveal their feelings about their husbands, Bradstreet awes everyone by writing To My Dear and Loving Husband. It shows how people shouldn't be scared to breakout of their stereotypes because it can lead to a greater success.

Dr. Fowling also taught us not to judge others and that nobody should be afraid to show who they truly are. The realization of the harmful effects that stereotyping can have, reminded me of a scene from the movie Mean Girls. After judging and gossiping about almost every single person at her school, Cady finally came to a conclusion as she met Caroline Krafft. She thought, "Miss Caroline Krafft seriously needed to pluck her eyebrows. Her outfit looked like it was picked out by a blind Sunday school teacher. And she had some 99 cent lip gloss on her snaggletooth. And that's when I realized, making fun of Caroline Krafft wouldn't stop her from beating me in this contest. Calling somebody else fat won't make you any skinnier. Calling someone stupid doesn't make you any smarter." Stereotyping will not add any positive qualities to yourself to make you a better person. All it does is destroy a person's self esteem. When people make the effort to be nicer, it can remove the badness from their hearts, too.