New ______ Man

I think what Neal is saying in New Black Man in regards to racial profiling may be generally accurate, but that it is easily applicable to any race or group. Racial profiling is just a fancy phrase for stereotyping. When a pattern develops, as humans we recognize it and apply it. If murders only happened on saturdays, people would probably stay at home or be more careful on saturdays. This is a natural response. Racial profiling of black men has come from individual incidents as he mentioned (Tupac, Nushawn Williams, etc...) that have developed into patterns. But this happens with any other group as well. If only one or two sorority girl were to get drunk and slutty at a party, it would be accepted as an individual case. But when it became more common than uncommon to do this, we recognized the pattern and predicted its reoccurrence. Yes it is a stereotype, but it comes from supported events. Not everyone in a group falls into the stereotype, in fact many may not. Or, like Connell's definition of masculinity, maybe only a couple fit the model exactly while most fall short. Nonetheless, stereotypes, while crude and often unjustly critical, stem from truths and are applied everywhere and to everyone.