Generalizations/Stereotypes you REALLY hate. Page 2

Started by Ice Car September 5th, 2011 2:07 AM
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mikey

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People (mainly online) seem to think I'm gay because I like listening to Lady Gaga (which is weird, because pop is a genre I listen to the least). That's an assumption I wish didn't exist, but I guess I can understand. I don't take it as an insult though, because it's usually gays that assume it. It can be flattering sometimes.

This has happened to me also!

Anyways, yeah. I hate stereotypes. Some are incredibly hurtful and stupid.

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Esper

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One of my pet peeves (and one I'll admit I'm guilty of every now and then) is the one where someone says: "You don't know what it's like. You're not _____." Yes, more than likely the person hasn't had the exact same experience and in that sense there's some validity to using this phrase, but I think it creates more divisions than anything. I'd much rather someone said: "It's kind of like when..." and tries to help someone understand. Of course, often this comes up when someone is doing some other stereotyping in the first place and that's not cool either.

On a related note, I don't like the assumption that a person of one race or culture can't understand another person's.
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the way we organize ideas and things (people included) in our minds is a sufficient and necessary means of understanding the world.
This.

All that might really bother me is people unobservant enough of our world to find the capacity to despise stereotypes.
The people who aggressively propogate them is another matter, but the stereotypes themselves aren't any ill-doing, I think.