Who are you a-okay with stereotyping?

[TPiddy]

Uhh...

Nobody, really. Though, I do make sure that people who DO fit into stereotypes know about it. ;]

Pretty much this.

Stereotypes are harmful and believe it or not, do NOT exist for a good reason. They are generalisations, and when you take things below the macro level, generalisations are almost universally wrong. It's like me comparing a person, to people; they are two distinct entities. It's why I despise the human race but I like individuals provided they don't fit into what I think of humanity in general, which can be easily avoided by simply being a good person.

A lot of stereotypes were made up to slander the thing they are stereotyping, but the ones that really stick are the ones that get perpetuated by said group. If seeing is believing, then it's hard to not believe some of them. I live in a very multicultural city and have found some people in different cultures to just be general all-around assholes, regardless of their particular stereotype, but you'll notice a trend in that more than one of these types of people behave in this way.

For example... I live in Toronto... a lot of immigrants here will walk on the wrong side of the sidewalk, push people to get in and out of elevators and subway cars, cut in line, and I take a cab about once a week and have had 1 white cabbie in the 3 years I've lived here. How can you be against a stereotype when there's so much evidence to support them?

 

[TheFacelessOne]

I guess you're asking who we used sterotypes against?

Okay, women. I really shouldn't though, I barely know about that race of people.

 

[FallenRainbows]

Evey body, prove me wrong.

I'm a teenager who is a romantic. Eat that for anti-stereotyping.

And no one. It annoys me.

 

[Animated Rope]

I stereotype everyone freely, no shame in that. I'm just aware that most people extend beyond my preconceptions and let them prove me wrong.

I don't really like the thought police idea where you're encouraged to go to great lengths to hinder yourself from ever having prejudices in the first place.

 

[MGlBlaze]

Uhh...

Nobody, really. Though, I do make sure that people who DO fit into stereotypes know about it. ;]

Pretty much this.

Stereotypes are harmful and believe it or not, do NOT exist for a good reason. They are generalisations, and when you take things below the macro level, generalisations are almost universally wrong. It's like me comparing a person, to people; they are two distinct entities. It's why I despise the human race but I like individuals provided they don't fit into what I think of humanity in general, which can be easily avoided by simply being a good person.

A lot of stereotypes were made up to slander the thing they are stereotyping, but the ones that really stick are the ones that get perpetuated by said group. If seeing is believing, then it's hard to not believe some of them. I live in a very multicultural city and have found some people in different cultures to just be general all-around assholes, regardless of their particular stereotype, but you'll notice a trend in that more than one of these types of people behave in this way.

For example... I live in Toronto... a lot of immigrants here will walk on the wrong side of the sidewalk, push people to get in and out of elevators and subway cars, cut in line, and I take a cab about once a week and have had 1 white cabbie in the 3 years I've lived here. How can you be against a stereotype when there's so much evidence to support them?

This is true.

I guess I just hate people who perpetuate said stereotypes, and it seems that a number of the things you mentioned are things that can be summed up as 'being an asshole'.

 

[neoontime]

Oh God so many

The list go's on

White People
Black People
Asians
Indians
MEXICANS
Country Music Stars
Christians
Muslims
Chuck Norris
Gamers
nerds
Parents
Jews
George Lopez
Communism

Why do you have mexicans capitalized aye?

Lol sooooo many

 

[TPiddy]

A lot of stereotypes were made up to slander the thing they are stereotyping, but the ones that really stick are the ones that get perpetuated by said group. If seeing is believing, then it's hard to not believe some of them. I live in a very multicultural city and have found some people in different cultures to just be general all-around assholes, regardless of their particular stereotype, but you'll notice a trend in that more than one of these types of people behave in this way.

For example... I live in Toronto... a lot of immigrants here will walk on the wrong side of the sidewalk, push people to get in and out of elevators and subway cars, cut in line, and I take a cab about once a week and have had 1 white cabbie in the 3 years I've lived here. How can you be against a stereotype when there's so much evidence to support them?

This is true.

I guess I just hate people who perpetuate said stereotypes, and it seems that a number of the things you mentioned are things that can be summed up as 'being an asshole'.

I have also heard it being explained that some cultures such as Asia and India, where there is overpopulation and crowding, that they are taught to push and shove and cut in line and such because in their home countries that stuff has to be done to survive... I mean, they should be acclimatized to their new environment eventually, but I still don't buy this as an excuse for being a douche.

 

[General Ken8]

I try not to believe stereotypes, because they can often be misleading about a person, but there are several that are true

Bimbos
Jocks
Douchebags
Trendies

 

[niglett]

i stereotype anyone who unwillingly supports there own.

 

[mangus]

nerds and men. also nerdy men. We're so nerdy.

 

[Kiefer13]

Nobody. Except when I do so ironically and am taking the piss out of the people that actually do believe the stereotypes (so it doesn't count). Stereotypes just annoy me. I judge people on a individual basis, not based on things like age/nationality/ethnicity/religion/sexuality/Some other stupid petty way of discriminating against someone.

 

[Kuchinawa212]

Nobody, once you start, it snowballs to uncontrollable levels

 

[MrDarkling]

Anyone and everyone unless you can prove yourself otherwise.
People in denial of their culture's personal stereotype is a moron who gets upset about "their" people being generalized into one kind of person like sheep.
Even though when we we're kids we were told that each and every single one of us is special.
I shall correct "SOME are special but unfortunatly the fools follow the fools" and that's how stereotypes are created.

 

[funguy2121]

everyone stereotypes each group of people at some point i think. Even if they do so without realising it.

That's such a typical white woman response }

 

[funguy2121]

I try not to believe stereotypes, because they can often be misleading about a person, but there are several that are true

Bimbos
Jocks
Douchebags
Trendies

That's because these were archetypes before they were stereotypes. I got spanked in another forum for being naughty and suggesting that a video game "alpha male" award was a psychology reference and not a sub-human biology one, and the argument ended when it was revealed that humans have evolved beyond the possibility of an "alpha." But it's still an Ideal Form, which is why so many dudes (whom I suspect are compensating for their small dicks) try to act macho, start a fight, gawk at every single remotely attractive female and brag about all the nasty things they would do to her...

 

[laura3lizab3th]

everyone stereotypes each group of people at some point i think. Even if they do so without realising it.

That's such a typical white woman response }

Oh haha

 

[funguy2121]

everyone stereotypes each group of people at some point i think. Even if they do so without realising it.

That's such a typical white woman response }

Oh haha

And she's cute, too. Too bad she's across the pond.

 

[Robert632]

teenage girls. there is no question in my mind.

 

[A random person]

Pretty much anyone as long as it's humorous, though I especially stereotype rednecks, pundits, gangstas, and girls who act like idiots and say "txt mee" a lot. Granted, those last two fit a stereotype in the first place.