What's your opinion on stereotypes?

All stereotypes are wrong.

I dont like them and i hate when people try and put people in a stereotype.Ill be honest and say i use to think it was cool but i have grown up a lot :) No i dont like them.As long as someone is happy the way they are then they can be anyone they want i feel

Stereotyping is something I don’t agree with and make an effort to avoid. But have to admit it takes work not to catch yourself doing it sometimes without realizing it. All it really is, is opinion and we all have them at one level or another. When a car salesman sees a woman looking at a car and thinks it’s an easy mark because she couldn’t know anything about a car or mechanics? When a little boy picks up a doll and dad has a fit because he believes it’s a sign he’s gay. When a person walks by poorly dressed and unkept, is he a vagrant or worse? If a person drives up in a newer Lexus and hands you a state low income card for food, medicine, etc…do you assume they are thieves and cons, stealing from the state? Is the well dressed professional as opposed to the leather wearing bearded person less of a loose cannon?

I think that stereotypes can actually be quite funny - as long as everyone involved does know that those stereotypes are just stereotypes and not the real world.

But they definitely do stop being funny as soon as someone thinks that they are real. And this seems to be the case with your friend.

I think she is taking it all too seriously. She is trying to fit in somewhere. Maybe she is trying to find acceptance from people by imitating them, or imitating the few things she knows about them, trying to become equal to people of a group that doesn’t even exists the way she imagines it does. She is on an identity-search trip and got somehow entangled into her own unrealistic imagination. Kick her out of it. Tell her that her vision of “Emo” is delusional.

Stereotypes form in middle school - highschool thats where it forms and we find out about the groupings. You really can’t avoid it. A lot of people grow out of it during their 20’s, but some people are immature and keep it for a long time. I hate stereotypes, your judging someone strictly off of how they dress or how they look a lot of the time, and thats horrible. Maybe they grew up in a family which was poor and they couldn’t afford nice clothes and thats not their fault. I know I had a lot of people judging me, just because I was shy and didn’t talk much. People thought cause of the way I looked and they took me being shy and not talking that I was stuck-up. They would think I was a b!tch. I had so many people tell me wow I really thought you were a completely different person, once they were got to know me and talk with me, then I wouldn’t be shy anymore and open up to them and they would see a totally different person.

I believe that as sterotypes are generalizations that lead to assumptions on how to treat someone, they can be bad. No one should be treated lesser than someone else due to a sterotype and doesn’t have to fit into it. I know plenty of people who dye their hair, wear bright clothes, have piercings and would never dream of hurting themselves.

On the other hand, some can be humourous. I love my country’s sterotype, that we all stop everything for mid-afternoon tea which is incorrect but kinda cute I think :3 My gay friend who is as manly as any straight man finds the feminine gay man sterotype hilarious.

Some are you learning to laugh about yourself in a nice way but others are just offensive and wrong assumptions.