Confession time: when you accidentally become the stereotype you hate

[Colour Scientist]

You forgot the whole Irish thing, to be sure.

I never became an Irish stereotype, I was born into it.

 

[shootthebandit]

You forgot the whole Irish thing, to be sure.

I never became an Irish stereotype, I was born into it.

I can know imagine you as a baby dressed as a leprechaun river dancing while you are drinking a guiness and eating a raw potato

 

[Colour Scientist]

You forgot the whole Irish thing, to be sure.

I never became an Irish stereotype, I was born into it.

I can know imagine you as a baby dressed as a leprechaun river dancing while you are drinking a guiness and eating a raw potato

Don't be ridiculous.


I only do that on Sundays.

 

[shootthebandit]

You forgot the whole Irish thing, to be sure.

I never became an Irish stereotype, I was born into it.

I can know imagine you as a baby dressed as a leprechaun river dancing while you are drinking a guiness and eating a raw potato

Don't be ridiculous.


I only do that on Sundays.

Maths in ireland must be really confusing when 100÷3 = a dirty tree and a turd

I joke but we often run around hills in kilts throwing telegraph pole while eating haggis and drinking whiskey. We just cant help ourselves sometimes

 

[Daystar Clarion]

You forgot the whole Irish thing, to be sure.

I never became an Irish stereotype, I was born into it.

Gobshite ;3

I still can't believe you guys have a leprechaun museum.

 

[likalaruku]

Picture Peggy Bundy from Married with Children. Now replace Opra & The Home Shopping Network with video games & manga, & quadruple the amount of bon bons she eats in any given day.

 

[Colour Scientist]

Maths in ireland must be really confusing when 100÷3 = a dirty tree and a turd

I joke but we often run around hills in kilts throwing telegraph pole while eating haggis and drinking whiskey. We just cant help ourselves sometimes

I had to say that aloud to get the joke. XD

Thankfully I don't have one of those accents.

Gobshite ;3

I still can't believe you guys have a leprechaun museum.

Shut up, don't tell people about that.

I will end you.

 

[Kyrian007]

Yes, but it isn't really my fault though. "Mid-Westerners (Kansans like myself in general) all live in rural settings (all farms and small towns where you have to drive '2 towns over' to find the nearest supermarket) and work in agriculture somehow." That's the stereotype that kind of bugs me. I live in a fairly large city, I have an office job, I can get Greek or Indian cuisine at 3AM, and just down the street is a Starbucks across the street from a supermarket with a Starbucks in it. But my background... yeah, farm kid. Small town school district, supermarket 2 towns over, can ride horses, drive tractors...

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Maths in ireland must be really confusing when 100÷3 = a dirty tree and a turd

I joke but we often run around hills in kilts throwing telegraph pole while eating haggis and drinking whiskey. We just cant help ourselves sometimes

I had to say that aloud to get the joke. XD

Thankfully I don't have one of those accents.

Gobshite ;3

I still can't believe you guys have a leprechaun museum.

Shut up, don't tell people about that.

I will end you.

I dunno, what's in it for me? ;3

 

[Something Amyss]

hmmm....well all those guys people are fawning over...david tennant, Benedict Cumberbatch, the guy who plays Loki do absolutly nothing for me so

.....wait

chris Hemsworth....[i/]and his beutiful hair[/i] 0_0....oh no

Hemsworth doesn't count, he's an honourary woman. And Tennant, well...haveyouseenhimindragohmygod

 

[Colour Scientist]

I dunno, what's in it for me? ;3

You get to keep the use of your limbs.

It's a pretty good deal.

 

[Barbas]

Good to see you back!

I was opposed to same-sex couples adopting children at one point. My "argument" was that the adopted children would suffer terribly from bullying at school because their parents were gay. The funny thing is that I was probably right - their children probably would have been bullied and ostracized...and it probably would have been done by people like me. I voiced my discomfort with the idea on one solitary occasion. What stands out most to me about the brief, heated argument that ensued was that when I was forced into a resentful silence, I found myself wishing the person I was arguing with was dead. That shocked me for some time afterward and cemented the incident into my memory. I found myself a little disgusted with myself and there were a lot of hard questions to come in the following years.

 

[TravelerSF]

Well I play video games... AND I'm fat... Does that count?

Other than that... I wore a "fedora" when I was younger. Like when I was around 16 or 18. Wouldn't touch the thing with a ten feet pole these days. In my defense though, I did usually check how it fit the other clothes I was wearing, but there was definitely that smug feeling of wanting to appear more intellectual. That was, before the world knocked me down a few steps.

 

[Skatologist]

Well, somewhere down the line I became that asshole irreverent atheist Christians point to to show everything wrong with atheists. I did the common asshole things, link religiosity to mental disorders, get really butthurt whenever I heard someone have a theistic belief, thought secularism was so damn important that it should be clearly in any secular constitution that the state will never humor the idea of either accepting or rejecting the existence of God or Gods, felt the strong desire to wear "Logic" shirts and make videos debunking the ontological and kalam cosmological arguments for God, along with other stuff. I think I may have only become that stereotype because I really didn't see open minded and moderate atheists on YouTube, real life, or other parts of the internet until recently and I thought atheists just had to act a certain way to get rid of their stigma as satanists and nihilists, although that way became a stereotype of being irreverent assholes. I'm not quite a moderate yet, but the things above, for the most part, have become more unimportant to me.

Also, i'm pretty sure I'm becoming a "mangina" and already hold the stereotypes of that group, small, weak, thin, soft spoken, pacifist in nature, not the least bit manly or threatening, etc.

 

[CommanderL]

I hate handsome bastards, but then looked in the mirror and realised I was everything I hated.

'Curse you, Daystar, you handsome ****." I said, "Curse your handsome cuntin' face to the bottom of the briny deep."

And then I realised I was a pirate.

In space.

With dinosaurs.

Lasers were possibly involved.

Fights were perhaps had.

There were sharks.

Do you ever take a moment and look up at the stars, and think about your life and just how stupid you are? If it makes you feel better, I'm a fucking rock star. With an amazing penis.

I am going to steal this post and claim it as my own as its amazing and awesome

I have a neckbeard and I like fedoras -crys in shame-

 

[SanguiniusMagnificum]

I once got very, very drunk on some cheap vodka and started singing Russian folk songs while wearing striped Adidas sweatpants and a black leather jacket.

That was like the most Russian thing that I've ever done....

 

[Nieroshai]

When I was a teenager, I was very much a snobbish Atheist Liberal, even down to the stereotype where I lauded the superiority of science SCIENCE!!! even while my own knowledge of it was limited to science fiction I had read, as well as an (oddly common at my school) actual fascination with Soviet Russia and full-blown Communism. Oddly enough, it was getting called out on my own intellectual laziness that led me to actually study science... and come to the conclusion that not only was I full of shit, but that so much of what I believed was just as unconfirmed as most religious thought. This led to a fascination with mythology, up until at a certain point a certain religion stuck with me as the best possible metaphysical interpretation of how we currently know the universe works. It was getting a job and political study that broke me of my Communist leanings, as well as the certainty that no matter how beneficial such a society CAN be, humans are just too naturally selfish to play along without extreme coercion. So here I stand, having fully transitioned from an angry, snobbish Atheist Liberal to an unusually chill spiritual Libertarian. Of course, now I don't fully fit into any broad stereotype because there's so much weird about me that I could write a book. Not that I plan to.

 

[Nieroshai]

Well, somewhere down the line I became that asshole irreverent atheist Christians point to to show everything wrong with atheists. I did the common asshole things, link religiosity to mental disorders, get really butthurt whenever I heard someone have a theistic belief, thought secularism was so damn important that it should be clearly in any secular constitution that the state will never humor the idea of either accepting or rejecting the existence of God or Gods, felt the strong desire to wear "Logic" shirts and make videos debunking the ontological and kalam cosmological arguments for God, along with other stuff. I think I may have only become that stereotype because I really didn't see open minded and moderate atheists on YouTube, real life, or other parts of the internet until recently and I thought atheists just had to act a certain way to get rid of their stigma as satanists and nihilists, although that way became a stereotype of being irreverent assholes. I'm not quite a moderate yet, but the things above, for the most part, have become more unimportant to me.

Also, i'm pretty sure I'm becoming a "mangina" and already hold the stereotypes of that group, small, weak, thin, soft spoken, pacifist in nature, not the least bit manly or threatening, etc.

I'd like to say that people in general aren't ever going to be eloquent or civil when discussing things they feel make up the fabric of reality. Having been atheist, Christian, and spiritual at different points, I've seen from each side how easily everyone accepts the fallacies that best illuminate them and demonize the opposition. Suddenly all Christians are Westboro Baptists, all atheists are euphoric, and in between you're just a hippie or a troll. I just feel that if the debate can't be had civilly, the debate shouldn't be had. In ancient Greece, religions from around the trading world were discussed civilly as a part of life. Tales were swapped, philosophies were discussed, converts were never expected and all around good times were had. Is it really so bad for humanity to not be homogeneous of thought and belief?

 

[giles]

I used to think because I like metal and math, I had to be that guy with a metal shirt, long hair and glasses. I looked down on people who like sports (the animals! they enjoy moving about aimlessly, ha! peasants!).

Well, ever since I discovered my athletic side I just stopped caring about fitting into some imaginary social niche. I'm myself and dress and act how I see fit.

 

[rgrekejin]

Context for this - I recently came out as a lesbian. No issue there, except for the fact that prior to this I'd proudly identified as bisexual since my mid-teens. Now believe me, bisexuals get a LOT of shit from both ends of the sexual orientation spectrum, so I'd always angrily refute the various stereotypes that get thrown around, like, say, "bisexuals are just confused/in denial, they'll pick a side eventually"

... Yeeeah.

Eh, I wouldn't be too hard on yourself for this one. Every person I've ever known who identified as bisexual (which, granted, is only a sample size of five, but still...) ended up doing the exact same thing at some point. I suspect the reason that stereotype exists is because this type of transition actually appears to be really, really common. I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out that the number of people who transitioned through bisexuality towards one side or the other were actually greater than the number of people who remain bisexual perpetually.