A House Is Only As Good As Its Foundation

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A House is Only as Good as its Foundation ”The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.” This was said by Chinua Achebe and his words could not have been more on target. We live with stereotypes every day; we hear them, watch them, and take part in them. We experience them more often than not through our televisions. We make fun of other people, give people superpowers, and create our worst fears on countless channels and movies. Yet they still have one common factor throughout all of them: they all deal with stereotypes and sexism. Many classical examples of the many different stereotypes show themselves throughout the series House. The stereotype that men are better than women plays a great deal in the series. The show takes place in a hospital in New Jersey where every female doctor comes dressed in a nice blouse with dressy pants (or a skirt) and every male doctor comes in a jacket and tie. Although House does not abide by that rule that does not mean that he is any more special than any other doctor. What makes him special are the cases that he solves. They make him the biggest asset to the hospital. Within all of the episodes, a person comes in and becomes an “impossible” case and Dr. House is there to save the day. Although House solves all of the cases he chooses to take, he never visits his patients. This could be because House is just not a people person or it could be that he does not want an emotional connection between himself and the patient. Along with not being a people person, Dr. House is also an independent, sexist, self-centered doctor. He lives behind the theory that everyone lies: "It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what” he
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