Gender stereotyping., It's wrong! Options

[Mistress Bags]

I abhor gender stereotyping.

Nearly everybody I know, both young and old, all gender stereotype. I think it's completely wrong.

For example, on another forum the other day, somebody said:

girls are freakin crazy. i had an ex stalk my new girl at her job and cause a scene. wtf why are girls so crazy & complicated?

So, because of one individual girl, you're going to make the assumption that all girls are crazy? Hell no! That's like saying men are all rapists because my sister was raped. If the girl was crazy, she was a crazy individual.

Everybody can be a little something (insert adjective here) at times, but that has nothing to do with our gender, race, nationality, age, and so on. It has to do with our personalities, nothing else. You are who you are, nothing less, nothing more. It's just wrong to make an assumption about a gender because of one person's actions or personality.

[banhbao]

yeah okay, it is,

but still even some girls agree we can have a little pms and do stuff

and guys admit things to other things.

besides it not a complicated subject, people do it, but its something we deal with everyday and i dont belive its such a huge problem, all we can do is try to prove them wrong, and if they change their mind, its fine, if they dont then they can screw themselves.

see not complicated
simple.

[*Kathleen*]

yeah okay, it is,

but still even some girls agree we can have a little pms and do stuff

and guys admit things to other things.

besides it not a complicated subject, people do it, but its something we deal with everyday and i dont belive its such a huge problem, all we can do is try to prove them wrong, and if they change their mind, its fine, if they dont then they can screw themselves.

see not complicated
simple.

I swear guys have PMS as well.. except.. minus the menstruation part. I agree, though; well, there's another stereotype - guys think every girl gets PMS, and that must be the reason they're "freaking out." That upsets me. Okay.. getting back on topic.. yes, gender stereotyping is egregious, but just as there are a plethora of other stereotypes, there's nothing we can do about it.

i totatlly agree with you. ifyou think one person is this and think that all people are like that, you thinked[not a word] wrong, dont judege a book by its cover without reading it

Yes - exactly! *Sigh* There are crazy females as well as there are crazy males as well. Incompetent females.. incompetent males.

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I swear guys have PMS as well.. except.. minus the menstruation part. I agree, though; well, there's another stereotype - guys think every girl gets PMS, and that must be the reason they're "freaking out." That upsets me. Okay.. getting back on topic.. yes, gender stereotyping is egregious, but just as there are a plethora of other stereotypes, there's nothing we can do about it.

Yes - exactly! *Sigh* There are crazy females as well as there are crazy males as well. Incompetent females.. incompetent males.

THEY DO! It was in our newspaper. Its called IMS (Irritable Male Syndrome)


Well, I dont mean to be pathetic or anything, but yeah, there are sterotypes and we can't really do much about it. If they dont have the compentancy to realize that yes everyone is an individual and all that jazz, then by god, when they screw up..I hope they screw up BIG.

I'm a girl, and I'm not gonna lie,... most girls tend to be a little more analytical, uptight, high strung, and generally crazy. It might not be the case for you and I really don't think that's the case for me, but it's just something that 'girls' are 'categorized' into.

Also, I know a lot of guys who are really neat and a lot of guys who are really messy. But, when somebody says "Men are pigs"... I don't get into a hissy fit and tell them that they shouldn't gender stereotype.

It's just a generalization. The world can't thrive without people making generalizations about other people, like "Asian parents are really pushy", "Black people can jump real high", whatever.

YES EXACTLY.


Plus, there wouldn't even be that generalization if it wasn't true.