Have you ever been stereotyped? What do you think is the most ridiculous stereotype present in society today?

I have a horrible southern accent and I am single mother. I get stereotyped as a hillbilly all the time. However, one of the most ridiculous stereotypes that have come up in my neck of the woods lately... People actually believe that if a person is gay that automatically makes him/her a sex obsessed child molester.

Honestly, what does being gay have anything to do with being a pedophile? Being gay and sexually abusing children are two completely separate issues.... well actually one is not an issue and the other is.

I have a very bubbly personality and a what I call "a man's sense of humor. " I am also a college student so I work as a server, and the combination of these lovely traits leads to some pretty awful stereotyping considering the fact that I'm also natually blonde. Many of my customers just assume that I'm uneducated and quite simply dumb due to both my job and my hair color, which I think are the two most ridiculous stereotypes.

The blonde stereotype is amazingly real! I'm not easily offended and usually find blonde jokes funny, but it's incredible to me that people take these preconceived notions as fact. I colored my hair brown once, and people took me way more seriously.It's sad.

Another stupid stereotype is judging someone based on their job title. If they work at a gas station, restaurant, or Walmart, for example, they must be uneducated and useless. Nobody knows why people work where they do.

Maybe they have children and it prevents them from attending school. Maybe they ARE in school. Maybe they are simply content with their job and their income and are just normal, functioning people working for a living.

Especially with the economy being the way it is, it's unfair to judge.

I am Mexican. I live in Mexico, but spend a large chunk of my time in the U.S. Due to my work. My physical appearance and accent make the fact that I am Mexican plainly obvious to most people when they meet me.

I am not often stereotyped, but the instances when I have been it has been as labeling me a Mexican-American or possibly an illegal, who must hold Democratic sympathies, that must be at most in a secretarial or clerical position, at worst in domestic service, that I must come from some poor, fly infested shack in rural Mexico, etc. The reality is, I am a Mexican citizen, I hold an enterprise/investors visa for the U.S., I hold conservative political views, even though I cannot vote in American elections I tend to support Republican causes including tight border control, in my country I am a supporter of the PAN party (our right wing), I am an independent currency analyst, my family is upper middle class, I own a home in Mexico and a condo in El Paso, TX (which by the way I'm interested in selling, LOL).

I don't know if I've ever been lumped into a stereotype in which I didn't belong. I think if you stereotype me by my appearance, you'll probably size me up reasonably accurately. That being said, the most ridiculous stereotype in society today is the "gangster" stereotype.

I'm seriously disappointed at how popular it's become. I can't figure out why "gangsters" want to drive wealthy old men's cars, live in wealthy old men's houses, but not go the whole nine yards and wear wealthy old men's clothes or talk like wealthy old men. It's a conundrum if you ask me.

I'm southern, blonde, and like to flirt. You can imagine the stereotypes that brings up. The worst one I got was one day when I was cashiering at Publix.

I don't remember the entire conversation, but a man told me that if I got an education, I wouldn't have to work in such a lowly job. I told him that indeed, I have two college degrees, and 140 I. Q, and used to be a legal assistant, and I cashiered because it was pretty low pressure until I ran into someone like him.

He never even looked at me the entire time I was checking him out. I guess he thought he was too good. He probably thought I was lying about the education and intelligence, but I wasn't.

I think the the worst stereotype is to assume that a person is a racist simply because of the color of their skin. Being Caucasion in America this is the moronic assumption. And it's wrong.

Assuming that someone who is financially poor is stupid or uneducated is also idiotic. Plenty of homeless people in this country have PHD's. And plenty of inventors make products that revolutionize the world are made by people without college educations or fancy degrees.

The world is full of people of both genders, all "religions", all skin colors, economic backgrounds, etc. Who hate without any real reason whatsoever. They limit their own lives and commit child abuse when they pass and infect children with their poison.

Yes, I've been stereotyped several times: I'm short, and I look young for my age (was mistaken for a jr. high kid at 25). That was a real problem when I first graduated first from college and then from graduate school. People assumed I was just too young for jobs.

And then when my metabolism went haywire, I started getting the anti-short-fat-woman thing. Of course I'm stupid and have no self-control. I could really see it when I finally got some treatment and lost a bunch of weight, and suddenly I was being treated much more positively.

And then when I became pregnant again and it went haywire again, I started seeing all the old prejudices again. Once in awhile I get it because I'm white. It really makes me upset, because I try to be as accepting of people as I possibly can and try hard to take people for who they are.So when people look me up and down and then start talking rudely about me in third person, when all I've done is dare to stand in the same line, it's jolting and says a whole lot more about them than it does me.

I think the most ridiculous stereotype out there today is against obese people. So many people have metabolic syndrome, and you just can't tell by looking. And many people have it and don't know it.

They just can't figure out why they can't loose weight, even though they seem to be doing everything right. When I found out I was lucky to be eating 700 calories a day, which is pretty much starvation levels. Yet people looked at me and assumed I was eating bags of chips and cartons of ice cream daily, I'm sure (I wasn't morbidly obese, but pretty heavy).

Yet I didn't even keep those things in my house. I know several others in this same position, and let me tell you, they can't order anything other than water and salad at a restaurant without getting remarks. I take that back--even that draws remarks, as if they couldn't hear the person at the next table loudly whispering "I wonder how long it took her to figure it out!

" It just occurred to me. Hobbits are the most discriminated against. Stupid, fat hobbit.

I get stereotyped all the time for having a large family. People stare as they walk by and a lot of them have the gaul to come up and ask stupid questions as well. For example "don't you know what causes that", or "are these all your children?".

I just want to reply, "no I pick up a few extra kids from the neighborhood when I am going to target just for the fun of it. " It is just amazing how nosy people get about things. I generally feel bad for my kids who have to experience this when we go out.

We all just need to remember the saying "keep your comments to yourself" in any sort of stereotyping situation.

My Korean roommate once told me, "All you white boys look exactly the same. I can't tell you apart. " It was a very interesting insight into perspective.

That which is different from yourself you have the tendency to lump together in "catch-all" categories. It's entirely human to do so and the subject of stereotyping often makes me think that it's really not so bad. It's how we're programmed."To err is human.

" Someone said that.

I taught last year in a neighborhood where I was a minority. I have never seen such rampant racism in all my life, and it was directed against me and mine. This was made worse by the fact that the whole while I was being discriminated against, I was being called a racist myself.

The kids would call me a racist whenever I told them to do something they didn't want to do, like read out loud. It even came to the point where I declared out loud that they were all the racists and I was the minority here. They were silent after that, so perhaps they heard me.

I'm not sorry to have left that place, even though I have been unemployed since I did leave, last June.

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