The person Steiner interviewed is obviously an alcoholic. Yes, its a stereotype, but its also a disease. It's similar to anorexia; the person chooses to start the unhealthy habit, and them they become addicted, and finally turns into a disease. These people are practically helpless, without counseling. I didn't stereotype Steiner as the writerof this passage, but i do think she should get her friend some serious help. At the beginning of the passage, i did stereotype her friend as a pitiful drunk. I mean, i think people can turn themselves around and say no to things that are detremental to their health. After reading through the article, i realized the person Steiner is talking about has a major problem, a disease. She is an alcoholic and needs help before she hurts herslf before the next time, or the last time. I now feel sorry for her friend and i stopped stereotyping her, and now i want to help her. The part that makes me mad is that Steiner acts like shes not going to do anything to help her friend. Steiner acts like shes going to just let this messy situation keep happening. Now I'm stereotyping Steiner as an untrue friend. If she was a true friend, she wouldnt want to see her friend doing this to herself, becoming a fish swimming in alcohol. A couple years ago, i discovered my best friend was bilemic. It was devastating to me because she was my beautiful best friend just the way she was. She never needed to lose weight and her body was perfect the way it was, but she didnt think so. I tried to help her myself and she begged me not to tell anyone. After trying to solve the problem myself unsucessfully, i had to get my best friend some help even though she wold hate me. I did it because i loved her, not because i wanted to tell on her or get her in trouble. I was trying to save her, my best friend, i couldnt let her go on doing this to herself. Anyways i got her some help, she stopped being my friend and hated me, but at least i got her help. Now, we are friends again, not as good as we used to be, but i dont regret what i did. i couldve saved her life. This is what Steiner needs to do, as a fellow person, i stereotype her as someone who talks about how something is bad, but never does anything about it, kinda like a hypocrit.
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Chelsey, I thought the exact same thing after reading this article. I also thought that it was somewhat strange that the author never seemed to have any intentions of helping her friend get better. So I too caught myself judging not only their friendship, but Steiner’s value and quality as a friend. As for Steiner’s friend, and her drinking problem, I felt like the author wanted us to conclude that her friend did have a serious issue that was detrimentally affecting her life. I felt like maybe she wanted us to make those stereotypes that we may think of when people use the term “alcoholic,” mainly because in the interview she responded with a lack of concern about her own problems.
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