# What stereotypes do you perpetuate? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 10, 2005, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stereotypes-do-you-perpetuate/283992 "2005-01-10T04:16:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![audiobottle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@audiobottle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audiobottle)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stereotypes-do-you-perpetuate/283992/61 "2005-01-11T03:01:50Z")
Ha! We’ve had a couple of Asian girls I see, but I get to be the first male! Which, sadly, never really engenders the same sort of reactions. I’m the son of Asian immigrants (my dad’s a doc) who wears glasses and learned to play violin at 3.5, piano at 8, and guitar at 14. I played tennis and soccer. I got Excellents and As in everything up to college. In college, I majored in electrical engineering, was in the honors society, etc, and am now applying to med school. I speak Korean at home, English everywhere else, and am becoming increasingly addicted to Korean dramas (read: soap operas, anyone else watch them? I should start a thread.). On the other hand: I smoked a looooooooot of weed in college (although after seeing Harold and Kumar, I’m starting to think that too has become stereotypical). I even dabbled in dealing, sort of, and tried my hand at growing. All my friends are Jewish hippies, trustifarians, or general layabout slackers, with maybe one or two Asian friends. Oh, and I don’t have a Honda. Yet. ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stereotypes-do-you-perpetuate/283992/62 "2005-01-11T03:02:43Z")
> [@Kaitlyn](#): > > I’m the fashionably dressed 30-year-old woman at the comic shop **coming** through boxes of old _What If_ comics looking for a #16 to complete my Shang Chi collection. Blimey! You must positively gush! ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stereotypes-do-you-perpetuate/283992/63 "2005-01-11T05:59:09Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#): > > Blimey! You must positively gush! Well, finding exactly the right comic book to fill out a nearly complete collection _is_ quite exciting. > [@Epimetheus](#): > > Well hello! And hello to you. Always glad to make the aquaintance of another Shang Chi fan. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stereotypes-do-you-perpetuate/283992/64 "2005-01-11T06:20:04Z")
Perpetuate: Bisexual: I’m somewhat sex-crazed and sexually adventurous. Most things “normal” people think up in that arena don’t faze me a bit. Girly: I’m a giggly girly-girl who loves fuzzy critters like cats and dogs. I also worship at the altar of the Shiny Thing. I love shoes and cosmetics. Nerdy: I love words. I read dictionaries and reference books for fun. I am damn good at standardized tests and essays. Defy: I am a Southern girl who doesn’t sound like it. I am a liberal in a nest of conservatives. I hate dresses and high heels; I’m most often found in t-shirts, trackpants or jeans, and sneakers. I have little aptitude with cosmetics. I’m a business major. I hate pink. I am monogamous mostly for practical reasons. I’m puritanical and it’s surprisingly easy to make me blush. I like snakes. ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stereotypes-do-you-perpetuate/283992/65 "2005-01-11T06:23:43Z")
> [@Kaitlyn](#): > > Well, finding exactly the right comic book to fill out a nearly complete collection _is_ quite exciting. But so exciting that it actually makes you come? You sure you weren’t faking it? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stereotypes-do-you-perpetuate/283992/66 "2005-01-11T07:08:20Z")
I’m a Star Wars geek with no girlfriend who stays indoors, and either chats on the internet or watches his huge DVD collection. ---
**Author:** ![Manatee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@Manatee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manatee)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stereotypes-do-you-perpetuate/283992/67 "2005-01-11T07:13:08Z")
Reinforce: liberal college teacher. Confound: reads poetry, loves musicals, but isn’t gay. ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stereotypes-do-you-perpetuate/283992/68 "2005-01-11T07:53:07Z")
Computer nerd: wear glasses, very pale, bad at all sports, love “The X-Files,” love “Mystery Science Theater 3000,” love “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” collect comic books, obsessed with Japanese pop culture, gadget freak Work in videogames: buy tons of games but have no time to play them, forgo social activities for work WASP: can’t dance at all, very low-key, plenty o’ sexual and social hang-ups, overwhelming desire to maintain the status quo American: monolingual, very ignorant of geography, completely ignorant of foreign politics, big on consumerism, watch a lot of TV Yuppie: drive a VW Jetta, own (and confess love for) an iPod, own (and confess love for) an Apple laptop, watch VH-1, like the Dave Matthews Band, like Norah Jones, like Sheryl Crow Southern: love fried food, love gravy, like bluegrass music, drink an obscene amount of Coke San Francisco resident: extreme left politically, hate southern California, really really hate LA, eat “Asian” cuisine at least 3 times a week, feel anxious without an internet connection, use a cell phone in lieu of a “landline,” homo ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stereotypes-do-you-perpetuate/283992/69 "2005-01-11T08:24:03Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#): > > But so exciting that it actually makes you come? You sure you weren’t faking it? When it comes to my comic books, I don’t fake anything. ---
**Author:** ![audiobottle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@audiobottle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audiobottle)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stereotypes-do-you-perpetuate/283992/70 "2005-01-11T13:04:33Z")
> [@audiobottle](#): > > Ha! We’ve had a couple of Asian girls I see, but I get to be the first male! Which, sadly, never really engenders the same sort of reactions. > > I’m the son of Asian immigrants (my dad’s a doc) who wears glasses and learned to play violin at 3.5, piano at 8, and guitar at 14. I played tennis and soccer. > I got Excellents and As in everything up to college. In college, I majored in electrical engineering, was in the honors society, etc, and am now applying to med school. Also, this has been bugging me all night. I swear I’m not a self-centered braggart or anything, despite what it may seem like from that quote. Honestly, I’m a chronic underachiever whose free time is getting eaten up by a full-blown anime and videogame addiction. And I have no fashion sense. ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stereotypes-do-you-perpetuate/283992/71 "2005-01-11T14:03:46Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > I’m a bad-dressing, wild-hair-having, big-word-using, socially-inept scientist. Who exploits her cats! (p.s. Your Rutgers page is 404.) ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stereotypes-do-you-perpetuate/283992/72 "2005-01-11T14:37:19Z")
Perpetuate: I am a soccer mom-all 3 kids play. I drove a mini-van. I’m white, 42, blonde, blue eyed, upper middle class. Live in the 'burbs–we even had a white picket fence, at one point. I make cookies. Refute: Dumped the mini-van, got a Volvo(I know, not much of a change, eh). I work in an inner city hospital(PT). I don’t vote according to the “faith” or “moral values” that a candidate espouses; I have been known to decry racist and homophobic jokes at cocktail parties; I don’t care what the neighbors think. Jeebus–I am the most boring person on the planet. At least we don’t have the picket fence anymore… ---
**Author:** ![My\_Darn\_Snake\_Legs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@My\_Darn\_Snake\_Legs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/My_Darn_Snake_Legs)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stereotypes-do-you-perpetuate/283992/73 "2005-01-11T15:43:34Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > I think he meant to say “not”. The phrasing’s pretty awkward otherwise and, as you said, a bigoted homophobe wouldn’t admit to it so publicly. Yes. Thank you! There should be a HUGE NOT in there! Of all the times to make a mistake and then set the email notification to “daily.” \ I really hope that everyone saw that as an error and not a legitimate sentence describing me. :smack: :smack: :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Serpentine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@Silver\_Serpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Serpentine)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stereotypes-do-you-perpetuate/283992/74 "2005-01-11T21:26:06Z")
Stereotypes that fit (21/female/“goth”/lives in a college town): I enjoy the pot. I go out drinking on weekends. Pagan. Was a cutter for a short while in my teens. Dress in all black, all the time (but I do accesorize in color). Read dark comics. Tabel top RPGs. Liberal. No dancing/musical ability (I refer to myself as Super Whitey). I love independent and foreign movies. Nocturnal. Hang out in coffeeshops. Smoke cigs, used to smoke cloves. Don’t fit: I’m quite polite. I’m not angry, angsty, or too antisocial. I don’t write bad poetry or hang out in cemetaries. Never smoked pot in HS. I don’t shoplift. I get along well with customers at work. I may be a pothead, but I NEVER go to work/drive whilst stoned. 75% of the time, I’m the designated driver (if we’re not all driving at the bar next to my apt complex). That’s all I can think of right now. ---
**Author:** ![Q.N.Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/3da27b/32.png) [@Q.N.Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.N.Jones)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stereotypes-do-you-perpetuate/283992/75 "2005-01-11T21:44:12Z")
I’m a grouchy spinster with cats. ---
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2005, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stereotypes-do-you-perpetuate/283992/76 "2005-01-12T05:39:03Z")
I am a 20-year-old Caucasian female. “All-American”, blonde hair, fair skin, blue eyes. I’m mostly straight. I blush furiously when I hear people talking about masturbation. I’m the nerdy girl with glasses who reads too much and blathers on about boring historical subjects no one else cares about. I’m also an atheist. Yeah, and I’m obnoxious about it, too. I can party hard with the best of 'em, and probably enjoy myself more than I ought to in New Orleans. All my friends (okay, okay, 7 out of 9) are lesbians. I have never smoked pot or done any illegal drug. You’re looking at probably the only person in Woodstock, NY’s entire history who never got high while she lived there. I speak French badly. I still have my “blonde moments”. The other day I fixed a plate of food, then walked off and forgot to eat it. Doh! ---
**Author:** ![burundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@burundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burundi)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2005, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stereotypes-do-you-perpetuate/283992/77 "2005-01-12T18:24:58Z")
I’m a white Southern woman. I call people “sir” and “ma’am.” I can’t stand rudeness. I have a terrible time confronting people. (I only ever yell at people when I’m dreaming. The dreams can be quite cathartic.) I call people “honey” and I have said “bless your heart” more than once and meant it with total sincerity. I wouldn’t wear white shoes after Labor Day. On the other hand, I’m an unapologetic geek, don’t attend church, the Civil War bores me terribly, and I’m not that interested in my family history. ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2005, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stereotypes-do-you-perpetuate/283992/78 "2005-01-12T20:36:45Z")
I am a Scandinavian-American male, and I find that _A Prairie Home Companion_ and Ingmar Bergman’s _Autumn Sonata_ can hit a bit too close to home sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2005, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stereotypes-do-you-perpetuate/283992/79 "2005-01-12T20:57:08Z")
I perpetuate the stereotype that short, fat white guys have big Johnsons. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2005, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stereotypes-do-you-perpetuate/283992/80 "2005-01-12T22:58:53Z")
I am a hillbilly. I grew up on farm in the hills of north Georgia. I like bluegrass music. I own a shotgun. When I was a lad, my family tended to have at least one inoperative car on the premises. Usually two or three. I once lived in a trailer. I have been known to drink moonshine. I like barbecue and brunswick stew. I enjoy fishing. I own a pair of overalls and some clodhopper boots. I enjoy sitting on my front porch. When I am among “my people,” I have a cornpone Southern accent. I have been spotted in the vicinity of the Chattooga River (where Deliverance was filmed). But I defy the hillbilly stereotype in the following ways: I now live in Atlanta. I have a professional career. (I almost never wear my overalls to the office.) I graduated with honors from a prestigious university and have a post-graduate degree to boot. My accent tends to disappear or lessen (without conscious effort on my part) depending on the setting. I am a Democrat. I am an atheist. I do not own a hound dog. My teeth are clean and white. I have never once sodomized a city slicker. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stereotypes-do-you-perpetuate/283992.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stereotypes-do-you-perpetuate/283992.md?page=5)