# Stereotypes you buck **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 27, 2016, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-you-buck/764133 "2016-08-27T14:00:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-you-buck/764133/41 "2016-08-28T15:01:52Z")
> [@stillownedbysetters](#): > > I’m a natural blonde and full-breasted. I lace my vocabulary with 10 dollar words - partly because I love words, but probably more so to demonstrate that in spite of my physical attributes, I can find my way out of a paper bag and also walk and chew gum at the same time. This has nothing to do with how I look physically, but similarly I’m tempted to do something like that while I’m working. I own my own business cleaning for a living now and there’s a definite underlying classism involved with certain types, and it really makes you want to occasionally bow up and prove your intelligence to fight their silly misconceptions that anyone who does manual labor must be stupid and unable to do anything else. But like **FCM** , I grin and bear it and move on. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-you-buck/764133/42 "2016-08-28T15:07:13Z")
> [@stillownedbysetters](#): > > I’m a natural blonde and full-breasted. I lace my vocabulary with 10 dollar words - partly because I love words, but probably more so to demonstrate that in spite of my physical attributes, I can find my way out of a paper bag and also walk and chew gum at the same time. Pictures my lady or I don’t believe you.😉 ---
**Author:** ![Corry\_El](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecae2f/32.png) [@Corry\_El](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corry_El)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-you-buck/764133/43 "2016-08-28T15:48:21Z")
Who thinks they do fit stereotypes? It might be the better question, but they come from somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![ticker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@ticker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ticker)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-you-buck/764133/44 "2016-08-28T16:00:38Z")
> [@GoodOmens](#): > > I’m a geek in several ways. I enjoy gaming of all sorts, many forms of sci-fi and fantasy, such like that. > > I also couldn’t give less of a shit about Star Trek or anime or manga. Not a single shit. I am a software engineer and couldn’t imagine doing anything else. I also enjoy science in general and regularly attend lectures by scientists in a diverse range of subjects from astro-physics to sustainable grazing practices. I do not like sci-fi, fantasy fiction, comic books or video gaming at all. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-you-buck/764133/45 "2016-08-28T16:07:22Z")
I do take showers. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-you-buck/764133/46 "2016-08-28T16:16:36Z")
Six and a half foot skinny guy, with a seven and a half foot wingspan and enormous hands (I can span a 13th on a piano). Hate basketball. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-you-buck/764133/47 "2016-08-28T16:55:17Z")
I work in the strongly Republican-biased aerospace industry, and I am a liberal Democrat. Someone once asked me (in jest), “I didn’t know they allowed your kind to work here.” Plus, I own guns. When the right wing shit flies heavy at work, I tell them, “I’m your worst nightmare. A liberal with guns.” ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-you-buck/764133/48 "2016-08-28T19:00:26Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Plus, I own guns. When the right wing shit flies heavy at work, I tell them, “I’m your worst nightmare. A liberal with guns.” Same here. I’m a programmer, but not a geek. I do a lot of home construction stuff. A few years ago, I added a two story addition to my house. ---
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-you-buck/764133/49 "2016-08-28T19:11:28Z")
> [@SantaMan](#): > > I came out of the closet in the late 70’s (in my 20’s) > I had a job in tech, paid off my student loans, bought a townhouse, and drove a station wagon. > I was the stable on while my 40 year old lover was the flighty one. > We had his kids every other weekend, so I had a townhouse, a wonderful husband, two kids and a station wagon. Having been around gay people my whole life, I have to say, they can be paralyzingly dull. ---
**Author:** ![ZPG\_Zealot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e47c2d/32.png) [@ZPG\_Zealot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZPG_Zealot)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-you-buck/764133/50 "2016-08-28T19:29:13Z")
I’m a woman. I have no desire to ever gestate a fetus. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-you-buck/764133/51 "2016-08-28T19:32:04Z")
I am a leftish wing union rep, who believes that state benefits are only for those who are truly unlucky, and help out in a temporary crisis and that most claimants should do what I do, get a job. I don’t believe in Cuba solidarity, unlike a significant number of my colleagues, nor do I believe that ‘The man’ is automatically the enemy. Yes I am a socialist, in the sense of ensuring everyone in society has a realistic chance to thrive and that privilege does not grant immunity from accountability I also believe that everyone has the right to make bad choices as long as it does not harm another person - yet we seem to have society full of people always keen to impose the ‘right choice’ - they tend to be left wing types. Yes I did vote BREXIT, I really do want people coming in to the UK to hold a criminal record checked visa - especially when I come across the extremely serious criminals that left their EU homeland to restart murdering and raping in UK - freedom of movement has its limitations. So as a stereotype union person, many of my views are pretty much on the right. ---
**Author:** ![Trom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@Trom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trom)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-you-buck/764133/52 "2016-08-30T19:09:29Z")
I’m a professional trader and have never partaken in either hookers or blow. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-you-buck/764133/53 "2016-08-30T19:11:39Z")
I’m a minority American, but vote conservative. I am Asian, but terrible at math, yet a fast sprinter. ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-you-buck/764133/54 "2016-08-30T19:43:32Z")
I prefer to be where the buck stops. So I am: a pilot a solo sailor a soccer referee to go where others won’t … by myself Had my last two molars pulled today. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-you-buck/764133/55 "2016-08-30T19:46:11Z")
I do not sell drugs. ---
**Author:** ![Toxylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-you-buck/764133/56 "2016-08-30T20:17:14Z")
I’m an anarcho-liberal city-dwelling Green party voter (and look the part), but I own guns, go hunting as much as I can, and am a devout omnivore. ---
**Author:** ![Doyle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doyle/32/439_2.png) [@Doyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doyle)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-you-buck/764133/57 "2016-08-30T21:01:24Z")
I’m from south Louisiana and I don’t care for cracklin". ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-you-buck/764133/58 "2016-08-30T23:56:05Z")
In high school, I was a scrawny, white, D&D playing, Space camp going, nerdy guy. Also got 8th in the state in long jump. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-you-buck/764133/59 "2016-08-31T01:46:20Z")
> [@Mr.Kobayashi](#): > > Just got a new car, got a decent deal on a BMW so now I’m going out of my way to buck the stereotype that all beamer drivers are inconsiderate arseholes by giving way, letting people merge and actually using indicators once in a while. Please continue using the indicators - don’t forget to keep your blinker fluid topped off 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-you-buck/764133/60 "2016-08-31T10:46:29Z")
I’m a lesbian, but I’m also pretty girly. Some people still assume lesbian = butch or at least tomboyish. Not exactly a “femme,” either, since I usually wear trousers in the winter for practical reasons, just with pretty tops. Despite being girly, I used to play football, like DIY and am not in the slightest bit squeamish. I’m forty, but my main hobbies are embroidery, gardening and detective programmes and books. I am basically a granny thirty years early. I live in social housing but I’m well-educated and until I became disabled was not dependant on benefits. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-you-buck/764133.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-you-buck/764133.md?page=4)