Confession time: when you accidentally become the stereotype you hate

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Zhukov

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I've got several:

- When I was 17-18 I had a neckbeard.

Well, kind of. I mean, it was on my chin and jaw and everything too, but I never bothered with trimming the neck. These days I keep it clean or down to a manageable stubble, with the occasional Wolverine-esque sideburn adventure just for a laugh.

- At one point in my teens I went through a patriotic phase. "Australia, fuck yeah!" I was pretty quiet about it though. Thankfully sanity reasserted itself relatively quickly and now the sight of someone waving a southern cross flag is liable to make my eyes roll clean out of my head.

- Lastly, I was once the toxic kid talking shit in online shooters. Although this was before mics became commonplace, so it was more a matter of typing shit. Still, if you spawn-killed me with a banshee in Halo I would devote the rest of the game to making your gaming session as miserable as possible.
 

Zhukov

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Colour Scientist said:
shootthebandit said:
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
Ohhhhhhhh.

Aw Christ.

I thought he was just commenting on Ireland's lacklustre decor and poor sewage systems.
 

V da Mighty Taco

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Whenever I touch that Zoe Quinn controversy, especially with all the SJW talk going on there these days. For whatever reason (I think it's because of all the "Us vs Them" shenanigans and mudslinging going around), after extended periods of being involved in it I end up becoming far more rash, hotheaded, and hostile than usual - something I actively avoid doing both online and in reality. As a person who believes that perspective is everything and that one should always seek to gather as many perspectives as possible, to see myself reduced to being a hair away from directly insulting people and nearly using the word "agenda" in a serious fashion just leaves me disappointed in myself.
 

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I started out thinking of myself as a man of taste and bemoaning those who settled for the fast food versions of entertainment media, only to find that I'm much more easily amused than I thought.
 

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Ten Foot Bunny said:
As for stereotypes, despite my attempts to remain open-minded, I think I've become a music snob. There seems to be more music that I don't like nowadays than music that I do. Sometimes it's whole genres (dubstep being a big one).
I'm awful with this one- More than a few times in the last week I've had to apologise before uttering that awful phrase- "I only like the early stuff". It doesn't help that I tend to rib people on their music tastes. I don't actually care about what other people listen to and I'll quite often do it about bands that I like, but people who don't know me so well take it the wrong way.
 

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Kyrian007 said:
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...
Fellow Kansan here, and I would say the stereotype I get more annoyed about is the one where We still live in the Wizard of Oz, ie "Travel on horseback, live on farm, looking over our shoulders for tornadoes." An opinion that someone asked my mom unironically while she was in California. As for your stereotype, I embrace it with a burning passion. If I get that job in politics that I am hoping for and have to work in Topeka, you can bet your ass I wont set foot there with the intention of living there. Instead, its Rossville or Maple Hill for me (My girlfriend says "No Silver Lake", as they were her schools rivals).

OT: Perhaps the one I would be is the Stereotypical Republican. Although, that can vary depending on the issue. From "Not really the same" to "Even more extreme."
 

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PC elitism. When I put together my first rig, I offended a friend of mine by scoffing at what he was paying for games, lower resolution, controllers, exclusives, indies, modding, etc. I was being a dick. I did own a 360 before I built my PC, so I was caught up in the positive differences.
 

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Every time I use "bless your heart" to actually mean "go fuck yourself", I live to embody the very pinnacle of the southern belle stereotype.

And I don't regret it in the least.
 

Zen Bard

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I'm Indian (though I grew up in the U.S. (obligatory "Fuck yeah!")) and am a sales engineer for a major I/T company.

So naturally, when someone (anyone, really) in my circle of friends, family and colleagues has a PC problem, they call me.

The worse part is...I can usually fix it.

But I've now taken to answering my phone in thick Bengali accent and identifying myself as "Trevor (how may I help you?)"
 

Scarim Coral

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So I became the older generation of Chinese people as in talking loudly in Chinese mom stop???

Ok sure as a Chinese I do lived up to some sterotyped like being hard working and something valve food alot more but that is one sterotype that I am NOT part of!
 

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I always hated well-spoken, kinda good looking somewhat narcissistic posh-boys with a passion.
I'm all that with a deep seated hatred of all and selfish outlook!

On a less serious note, I managed to grow out of the 'enlightened internet atheist' phase a while back.

Those sure were dark times.
 

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Whenever I talk about why I have strong feelings that the Rayearth TV series is a flawed and inferior adaptation of the manga, I always worry I'm letting the fact my favorite character got the short stick a lot affect my judgement, or else being a whiney nitpicker who is just complaining they changed things so so it sucks 'cause its not like the original'.
 

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I like rock, I'm pale skinned, wear mostly black, have boots with buckles when I can be bothered wearing them, a studded bracket and my neutral face tends to make me look mildly pissed off. For a little while when I was a teen I did the having scorn for pop or rap music regardless of whether it was actually bad. STEREOTYPE! I don't have any piercing though and I don't and never wore makeup or really act or talk like the stereotype (aside from hating on pop and rap when I was a dumb teen).

Now to disgust all the dudes with icky body shit. You know the whole crazy irrational pmsing women thing? Yeah...I get like for the day following and the first day of my period. I guess it's a stereotype for a reason. I don't get screamy rage so much, I think I would prefer that. I get stupidly emotional fragile and depressed. It's absolutely pathetic to behold, I hate weepy stupid women who cry over nothing and I'm not usually like that which of course makes me more depressed and weepy. At least I can recognise what it is most of the time now. It doesn't really help with the weepyness, reason doesn't seem to work for that but it dose if I was already stressed and I get suicidal. It's actually kinda hilarious. Last time I was walking home from tech and was thinking about jumping off one of the brides above a road (I wouldn't have regardless). I realised what it was and I think I said "oh...fuck you, uterus" out loud. Lucky no one was there to hear that and I think I'm mental.
 

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I became a Goth stereotype when I was homeless and 17 yrs old. I still am to be honest so that's not the negative stereotype I'm talking about in this case. Shortly after my change I started getting a lot of attention from these crazy people who are all into vampires, and even some that believe themselves to be. I would go to a club and some jerk would approach me and be all "Psst, what clan are you?" It was really annoying and really put me off of vampires. Later on I got to work at a Halloween attraction at a theme park. Guess what I got to be. I played the role of a vampire for over a decade.

During that time I got approached by someone who worked for a casting agency. At the time the idea of working on TV shows and movies as a side job sounded fun. Guess what roles I got type-casted for a lot. Within a month they had me doing a featured role as a Vampire on a TV show and later another, and another. I did a fair amount of basic background stuff too, but I think half of my featured TV roles have been as vampires.

I still roll my eyes at all the vampire jokes people throw at me. Largely because I haven't heard a single witty or original one in at least 15 years. Stephen Moyer tried to throw one at me and I couldn't hide my momentary disgust. I feel a little guilty about that in retrospect since I didn't mean to shut him down like that and I understand he was just trying to be good natured, but I can't help but be annoyed by the association.

So yeah I'm a Goth stereotype which is fine, but according to the public I am also a Vampire stereotype, which annoys me a lot.
 

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maybe not so much a stereotype but i have to try really frigging hard not to come off as the douche bag wanker that has always been hiding within me and i detest in other people.

I like to spend my spare time studying arts, science, music, psychology, maths and languages and the second i overhear a work colleague having something that remotely resembles an intellectual conversation i have to chime in with my two cents.
you can practically hear the verbal fap fap fap sound when i start a sentence with "I read a study recently that said..."
 

Arakasi

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Sometimes the angry incomprehensible gamer.
Sometimes the condescending know-it-all.
Sometimes the bragging douche.
Sometimes the pathetic loner.

But as with anything, it is a matter of vigilance not to actually become any of them.
 

Johnny Impact

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(/\Daystar) I lol'd.

Can't think of a single time, to be honest. I fit a few negative stereotypes, 'forever alone gamer guy' being probably the most obvious, but the thing is I don't hate the groups I belong to.
 

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A few months ago when I was home for Thanksgiving break, my mother and I went to breakfast the following Friday (Black Friday). Our waitress calmly took our order and asked if we were doing anything for Black Friday. We calmly replied that we were not. She mentioned off hand that she was off to buy some things later for her kids, including an Xbox One. I proceeded to vocally slag off the Xbone for around 20 seconds without realizing I was making our waitress uncomfortable. Proud day to be a PC gamer :(
 

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erttheking said:
MarsAtlas said:
You know the "bulldyke lesbian" stereotype?

Yeah, basically most of that. Not tall though. Wish I were though.
6'5 person here, and let me tell you it's not all its cracked up to me. It loses its appeal after you get asked how tall you are for the fifth time that day and then asked if you play basket ball.
mostly i find it gets old when chopping veg and the nagging pain the small of the back starts up.