Media Dialog

Hopefully i’m doing this right. My dialog is about how people are so quick to take the stereotypes and themes television and other media present as mostly fact rather than fiction.

Persons:

rp-fan08

ff-fanatic

SCENE: online chatroom

ff-fanatic: i have such a love hate relationship with chat rooms

rp-fan08: tell me about it. most of them are like watching train wrecks. it’s terrible, but you can’t help but watch

ff-fanatic: i know what you mean. i think my biggest tick is when people blatantly misspell everything

rp-fan08: haha, most definitely. I mean, i’m no spelling bee champ, but come on

ff-fanatic: yeh, i no waht u b sayin, dawg. dat shit be ridiculoz

rp-fan08: haha, you’ve got issues

ff-fanatic: word son. it hurt me just ta type that. I feel like i got in touch with my black roots though

rp-fan08: black roots? how does typing like that get in touch with your roots?

ff-fanatic: haha, you know what i mean.

rp-fan08: I guess, still talking like that doesn’t make you ‘black’ or anything

ff-fanatic: You gotta admit, a lot of black people talk like that

rp-fan08: rappers and tv stereotypes? maybe, but you don’t have to talk like that to be black.

ff-fanatic: don’t get all bent outta shape…i didn’t mean anything by it. i was just jokin.

rp-fan08: I know. I don’t have much room to talk, considering I joke about that stuff too. I guess it’s an inner conflict of mine. Either way, those ‘ghetto’ stereotypes annoy me. stereotypes in general are pretty annoying in general especially since they’re plastered all over the media. sure, they can be funny, but only when they’re taken at face value and not seriously.

ff-fanatic: well yeah…but it’s hard not to believe it when there are plenty of people that walk around with their pants sagging and what not. I can never understand what some of the guys that ride my bus say. sure the media may exaggerate it…but they’re just making fun of things that they actually do. and not all of it is exaggerated either. I’ve watched plenty of b.e.t. and other black tv shows. a lot of them act accordingly.

rp-fan08: sure, some may set an example for the stereotype, i’m not saying they just pull it out of their asses. but what you’re saying is like implying that all Germans are Nazis or all whites eat mayo and suck at dancing

ff-fanatic: Why do you even care?

rp-fan08: …cause I’m black?

ff-fanatic: Really??

rp-fan08: Uh…yeah

ff-fanatic: …you don’t talk like you’re black