The details Cofer includes support her thesis that Latinas are poorly understood and grossly stereotyped by showing how they constantly disrespected by society.
In her essay "The Myth of the Latin Woman: I just Met a Girl Named María," Judith Ortiz Cofer (1952-2016) discusses the myth - the stereotype - surrounding Latin girls and women.
According to the author, Latin women are misjudged all the time. Society is taught, especially by the media, to <u>regard them as women to hit on, to send to the kitchen, or even as criminals.</u>
She claims that looking like a Latin woman is enough to have others disrespect you. She offers examples and details to support that idea.
Two details we can extract from the text are:
1. The boy who took her to prom and kissed her on the lips without her consent. He did not like her lack of enthusiasm and said, "<u>I thought you Latin girls were supposed to mature early</u>."
2. The white man who sang songs to her - one of those had offensive lyrics - in front of other people in a hotel just because she is a Latin woman. <u>He thought her not as a person, but as a character "in his cartoon-populated universe."</u>
In conclusion, the details above help the author make her case by exemplifying the disrespect that comes with being a Latin woman in a prejudiced world.
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