stereotyping is bad

Racially gendered stereotypes of women of color are employed to confirm their greater subservience, deny them the respect and "protection" accorded to white women, and to sanction their use and abuse.

All too often these stereotypes reflect this society's obsessive and twisted fixation on female sexuality. If white women were once locked into tightly prescribed roles that deified their virtue, the stereotyping of women of color frequently has depicted them as virtueless, sexually available, and eager. Where some white women are labeled "sluts" and therefore made to seem like "acceptable prey," all women of color are often stereotyped in that way. In addition to being labeled sexually loose, women of color have also been characterized as lazy, irresponsible, childlike, and untrustworthy, among a host of other diminishing terms and images meant to justify their perceived lack of status. In popular culture, the colored "she" becomes nameless: "squaw," "nigger bitch," "mama san," "tamal...