Week Twenty

This week we had to begin on the exam topic as there was a system failure with the school computers. We began to learn about TV Drama and watched clips from a series named 'Teachers' in which we had to find the stereotypes of a number of things. We were briefed on the different groups that are represented: Age, Sex, Race, Gender, Ability, Social Class and Region. The particular clips that we watched from 'Teachers' were centred around sexuality and ability. The one on ability showed a previously able man in a wheel chair, his collegues then went on to insult him by doing the stereotypical things that people do when around a disabled person. For example, talking to him in a loud, patronising tone, putting a blanket on him etc etc.