History Main / Stereotype

* StandardFiftiesFather

-->-- '''Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie'''

* GirlsAreReallyScaredOfHorrorMovies

[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant No, not]] [[IncrediblyLamePun a certain kind or brand of audio system.]]

* PerverseSexualLust: Making aegosexuals out to be somehow worse than allosexuals.

* MenUseViolenceWomenUseConfrontation

* WomenUseCommunicationMenUseViolence

When a set of such assumptions about something becomes "{{common knowledge}}", it forms a stereotype. Most of the time, nobody notices, as in the case of birds. This is very useful when you're writing fiction, because [[TheLawOfConservationOfDetail it lets you save a lot of space and time that you'd otherwise have to spend describing something in detail, when it isn't really important to your story]].

Stereotypes ''at their very best'' are a small grain of truth about some people in some groups that are most often taken from SmallReferencePools (and very rarely from generalities drawn from group norms as observed by outsiders), and then erroneously applied to ''everyone in the group/people/culture/ethnicity/etc,'' never mind that cultures have a wide variety of differences, and individual people within them can be even more varied, and even ''at that very best'' are often ''still'' [[TokenMinority tokenization]] (even [[FlawlessToken when "positive"]], fetishization, or objectification.

Stereotypes ''at their very best'' are a small grain of truth about some people in some groups that are most often taken from SmallReferencePools (and very rarely from generalities drawn from group norms as observed by outsiders), and then erroneously applied to ''everyone in the group/people/culture/ethnicity/etc,'' never mind that cultures have a wide variety of differences, and individual people within them can be even more varied, and even ''at that very best'' are often ''still'' [[TokenMinority tokenization]], fetishization, objectification, or PositiveDiscrimination.

* AmbiguousDisorder: A character has stereotypical traits of some sort of unexplained mental disorder.

* VillainousAromanticAsexual: People who don't have romantic or sexual attraction are sociopathic or morally broken.

Stereotypes ''at their very best'' are a small grain of truth about some people in some groups that, often taken from SmallReferencePools, and very rarely from generalities drawn from group norms as observed by outsiders, and then erroneously applied to ''everyone in the group/people/culture/ethnicity/etc,'' never mind that cultures have a wide variety of differences, and individual people within them can be even more varied, and even ''at that very best'' are often ''still'' [[TokenMinority tokenization]], fetishization, objectification, or PositiveDiscrimination.

Stereotypes ''at their very best'' are a small grain of truth about some people in some groups that, often taken from SmallReferencePools, and very rarely from generalities drawn from group norms as observed by outsiders, and then erroneously applied to ''everyone,'' never mind that cultures have a wide variety of differences, and individual people within them can be even more varied, and even ''at that very best'' are often ''still'' [[TokenMinority tokenization]], fetishization, objectification, or PositiveDiscrimination.

Stereotypes ''at their very best'' are a small grain of truth about some people in some groups, often taken from SmallReferencePools, and very rarely from generalities drawn from group norms as observed by outsiders.

At their ''worst,'' they are inherently reliant on UnfortunateImplications, the definition of the PropagandaPiece and even precursors to genocide via the route of {{demonization}} and dehumanization.

Stereotypes ''at their very best'' are a small grain of truth, often taken from SmallReferencePools and very rarely from generalities drawn from group norms as observed by outsiders.

* MyGirlIsNotASlut