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Stereotypes are Powerful
Topic Started: Feb 27 2014, 08:50 PM (136 Views)
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Yesterday in Sainsburys I saw two men shopping together. I thought nothing of this. A few minutes later I passed them again and I heard one of those men speak to the other. He had one of those feminine sibilant 1950s stereotype 'gay' voices. I assumed that they were a gay couple, even though they were both scruffily dressed. I ought to know better and I shouldn't have jumped to the conclusion that they were a homosexual couple, but stereotypes have a powerful hold of our ways of relating to people and the world.
Edited by Cat's Pyjamas, Mar 1 2014, 12:42 AM.
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Did you notice the other stereotype? Which is gay men are good dressers.

I just thought I'd mention it because Jefe has a tiresome habit of pointing things out and being all anal.

Edited by Cat's Pyjamas, Feb 27 2014, 10:48 PM.
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I think stereotyping is necessary and natural. It's how we make sense of the swarming masses around us. It's just forming a picture of who someone is and what you can expect of them, before you actually know them, based on a cluster of observations. That's fine.

When it's used in a negative way then it becomes a problem. If LB had stereotyped those men and then as a result avoided passing them I the aisle because she doesn't like gay men... That's bad.
Bad LB.

But she didn't, so it's all good :)
Every time you eat bread Ryan Gosling is sad.
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"If LB had stereotyped those men and then as a result avoided passing them I (sic) the aisle because she doesn't like gay men... That's bad."

Why? I reserve the right to dislike people for any reason I want.
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Yes you do. That doesn't make it socially acceptable.
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Perversion isn't socially acceptable in my book. Homosexuality is a paraphilia, as is pedophilia or sadism. Except for lipstick lesbians, of course. They are mentally normal.
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The Sainsburys is a hyperlink, click it and see.



Edited by Cat's Pyjamas, Mar 1 2014, 12:44 AM.
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