I watched the Ted talk from Chimamanda Adichie, The danger of a single story, and read
No, Hope Solo Is Not “Like” Ray Rice, and The State of Womans Athletics 40 years after Title IX.
All of these articles were very thought provoking.
I think we all experience stereotyping throughout our life time.
I have noticed it in my life because of my religion, ethnicity, political leanings, and my size.

 None of this matters in the big picture, so why do we do it? Why do we scorn one another because we are different. What a boring place this would be if we were all the same. Varity is the spice of life.
All of us have a story and just as Chimamanda said and it is not one story, we are like diamonds, full of facets and inclusions, these occur from our experiances in our life time.

I belong to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and could not believe the stereotyping that happened when Mitt Romney ran for president. People were throwing untruths around acting like they were the authority on the subject of my religon, I was always taught if you want to know the truth of something go to the horses mouth, people don't usually do that, they believe hearsay, that is not an acceptable choice, if you want to know truth ask a member in good standing, a person who is a member.

The article on Hope Solo is another case of people jumping on the band wagon without the complete truth, she did not get the discipline that other athelets recieve for this behavior, people need to look at both sides and recognize the level of abuse that was levied in each instance, she did not almost kill someone like the other athelete did.

In 1972 President Nixon signed legislation that bans sex discrimination in any educational program recieving federal funding, this has made it possibe females to participate more in sports and not be discrimated against. Bernice Sandler who helped draft the legislation Said "Oh maybe now when a school holds its field day,there will be more activities for the girls" this was just a minor hope compared to today when women in sports are just as proficient as men in the sports arena.
This has benefited many in the way of scholorships for furthuring their education.

My hope for the future is that stereotyping will die and acceptance will take it's place, that our children in the future will blow a hole through the glass ceiling and progress to acquiescence of each other differances and celebrate them.