#stereotyping

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Examples of Gaslighting

First Things First

#mental health #gaslighting #examples of gaslighting #countering #withholding #trivializing #denial #diverting #stereotyping #take care #relationships #friendships #feel free to share/reblog #First Things First (Facebook)

[sunshineandlyrics]

Dev talking about his movie Monkey Man (7 April 2024)

#dev Patel #representation #I love his attitude and passion #monkey man #mine #stereotyping

[hauntedbystorytelling]

Physogs card game · 1940s

Physogs, the Novel Card Game (1940s) · original storage for the game

Physogs, the Novel Card Game (1940s) · Face / frame card (1 of 4)

Physogs, the Novel Card Game (1940s) · Playing cards (eyes - nose - mouth)

Physogs or having fun with a very sexist, misogynist and racist game; not surprising at all from a game based on a “science” like physiognomy.

Physogs, the Novel Card Game (1940s) · Playing cards (eyes - nose - mouth) Physogs, a British game from the 1940s, is a popularized version of physiognomy, the art of judging human character from facial features. Based on sociologist Jacques Penry's How to Judge Character from the Face (1939), the game consists of fifty-six...

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#card game #physiognomy #physogs #composing faces #faces #game #playing cards #racism #1940s #sexism #stereotypes #stereotyping #vintage games #visual science #waddy productions #white people

[damnfandomproblems]

Fandom Problem #4023

Kinda getting tired of every weird/quirky character being headcanoned or retconned into having a mental illness/ be non-neurotypical. Like I get the need for representation but calling any character that doesn't fit in the very narrow view of "normal' autistic or bipolar seems ridiculous. Like, some people are just weird, that's it.

#ask box submission #fandom problem 4023 #representation #headcanons #other fans #stereotyping #character problems

[stonebutchooze]

whenever I say I worked at a care home people always assume I mean an OLD PEOPLE'S care home and start talking about dementia, and even when I correct them and say no, it was adults of all ages with disabilities like cerebral palsy, some of them younger than me, people still don't listen and start talking about how hard it is "when you get to that age".

like people who live in 24/7 care for their entire adult lives exist!!!! residential care is NOT something that only comes into play at the end of your life. lack of awareness and funding is, in my opinion, partly why negative experiences of full time or respite residential care are so widespread.

ALSO when I successfully clarify that I worked with people of all ages, people start talking about how SAD it is when young people who have conditions like cerebral palsy can't move or talk or whatever. and I ALSO take issue with that. I think seeing disabled people's experiences as wholly "sad" or "what a shame" pre-emptively dictates what kind of life we expect disabled people to live. people in residential care CAN be happy, largely independent, or happy with their level of control where they are dependent on others. if we assume they can't, we won't even try to help them get there.

some people have high support needs at home and then go into residential care. some people spend their whole lives in residential care. some people won't need it at all with proper support and funding at home. people need support, not pity and people seeing their lives as lost causes.

#work talk #care worker #residential care #care home #nursing home #disability #ableism #disabled stereotypes #stereotyping #support worker #care assistant #person centred care #person-centred care

[antimony-ore]

We need to cool it with the "people have no media literacy" spiels for real. Surely you can tell people they are wrong in one instance without presuming it's representative of a larger problem with their behavior and reaction to media.

We all say stupid things some times, stop fundamentally attributing their behavior to a lack of intelligence and lumping them into categories.

It doesn't make you superior; it's actually pretty exhausting, lacks compassion, and demonstrates that you, yourself, are incapable of critical analysis without going to extremes.

#media literacy #fundamental attribution error #stereotyping #discourse #ablism #intellectualism #anti intellectualism #moral superiority #toxic intellectualism

[trekkitkat]

Not stereotyping people includes men too

In a world where stereotyping people because of their colour/race/religion/gender is rightly found upon, the "all men" bullshit needs to end.

It is plain stereotyping, passing judgment on a whole section of society because of the category they were born in. If you would not judge someone by their sexuality, by their nationality, if you would not judge a woman just because she's a woman, you should not be against men just for being male.

And notice how when women comment that's it's not all men, and talk about their positive experiences with men, the radfems shoot them down with vengeance. Why? Because their challenging the spew that all "men are monsters" and pointing out that the world is not so black and white. Like every social category in the world, some people will be good and just and kind and some people will be cruel and hateful. But it has nothing to do with their social categories and everything to do with the individual and the choices in life they make.

Now, from my personal experience, I have experienced some bad ones. I've had the creepy guy sneaking into the girls shower at high school, the perves in the bar, the guy who broke all professional protocol to get my phone number and made me feel unsafe. There's a list. But I also know my step-father, who I trust with my life, the men in my extended family, my male friends, classmates, coworkers. I remember being 18 and traveling alone with my male supervisor to work on isolated sites in the hills and later going into the scrubland with four male colleagues, and they behaved with complete respect and professionalism, they treated me with complete equality, as a fellow colleague.

So no, I will never let the "all men" argument slide, because lumping the good people in the world in the same pot with the bad ones is always harmful. It fosters hate and division. We are supposed to be becoming an enlightened, rational, equal society.

#Equality for all #anti misandry #anti sexism #anti radical feminism #Not all men #Stereotyping #gender equality #Stereotyping hurts everyone #It doesn't matter what percentages people work with #You cannot judge half the planet as being exactly the same #No two people are the same #Let along half the population

[miguel-owhora]

"miguel listens to lana del rey-"

GUNSHOTS VERY LOUD EXPLOSIVE N DEADLY GUNSHOTS

bsffr 😭😭😭 he would NOT listen to her. im sorry but 💀💀💀 he wouldn't. that man listens to spanish music BECAUSE HE'S LITERALLY MEXICAN WKD DXNXNC and whateber funky music they play in 2099 🙄🙄🙄🙄

#mr. o'whora — miggy goes crazy. #“omg you're stereotyping-” IM MEXICAN #I LISTEN TO SPANISH MUSIC #MEIXCNA MUWIC #WHAT DOY YOU KEAN #STEREOTYPING #miguel would not listen to whatever you coquette cottagecore scenecore emocore sanriocore vocaloid odetari musical theatre screamon #whatever the fuck there is you bitches listen to #he absolutely would not #he listens to spanish music of any kind n whatever else plays in 2099 #💀💀💀

[rivertalesien]

Talking bout...

#doctor who #ncuti gatwa #15th doctor #stereotyping #how nice

[apenitentialprayer]

Stereotypes, Identity Anxiety, and Self-Fulfillment

The theory of "stereotype threat" is {...} fear of "being judged and treated poorly in settings where a negative stereotype about one's group applies." As performance anxiety is triggered, the fear often manifests in stereotypes being borne out by reality. The research suggests that awareness of a negative stereotype about one's group can interfere with the performance of the members of that group whenever the stereotype is invoked. {...} Stereotype research warns that members of marginalized ability groups {...} are stymied by their own knowledge of how they're popularly perceived. The threat doesn't even have to be explicit. {...} The combination of familiarity with a stereotype and membership in a stigmatized group impairs performance. {...} One group of researchers hypothesizes that the effect of the stereotype is "to make sure that any sign that they might be confirming the stereotype is identified and suppressed. Ironically, this increased vigilance and control hijacks the same central executive processor (i.e., working memory) needed to excel on complex cognitive tasks, producing the very result —poorer performance— that they are trying to avoid." Stereotype threat research has been carried out over multiple domains, from academic to athletic to affective. The expectations laid out by stereotypes influence results. Research has also found that people engage in self-handicapping to reduce the applicability of a negative stereotype to their performance. That is, they will not try as hard —say by failing to practice a skill— in order to avoid hits to their self-esteem. When they fail, they can attribute their failure to lack of personal effort rather than natural inadequacy. {...} Writing about the potential undoing of stereotype threat, Toni Schmader has noted, "[T]hese differences can be reduced if not erased by changing the nature of these performance environments to encourage more positive views of one's group or one's own abilities, or through greater transparency of the pernicious effects that stereotyping can have. By deconstructing stereotype threat, we can diffuse the damage it can do." What Schmader means is that the power of stereotype threat lies in its invisibility. We can counter it in one of two (not unrelated) ways: by putting a stop to the ways in which we marginalize {groups}, or by shining a light on he fallacy of the stereotype.

Darcy Lockman (All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Unequal Partnership, pages 224, 225, 224, 226). Bolded emphases added. Square brackets original, curly brackets indicate my own editorial changes.

#stereotyping #sociology #identity #self esteem #All the Rage

[stillunusual]

No words....

#jk rowling #robert galbraith #cookoo's calling #facepalm #poland #polska #ignorance #bad writing #stereotyping #what the fuck are slavic eyes?

[enemy-to-the-state]

my dad’s girlfriend: well you’d like this since you know a lot about theatre and entertainment

me:

#look i respect theatre and musical theatre as an art form #but i’m really tired of my dads girlfriend making stereotypical assumptions #bc she thinks she knows soooooo much about gay people #i like theatre just fine but i know fuck all about it #and just because im a fag doesn’t mean i have to know about it either #i love when my bf talks about musicals and the theatre to me #bc i like learning about his interests and i honestly do find it very fascinating!!! #but i still am not super engrossed in the community!! #i was and am a band kid through and through #this was the same woman who was shocked and disturbed when i told her i didn’t really go for musicals all that much like #a couple months ago #why did she think that changed?? #idk i just get really riled when i’m stereotyped #especially when it’s wrong and especially when it’s her #rant #dysfunctional family #she was trying to force me to watch some kind of tik tok video about dance moves #gay #stereotyping #lgbt #queer

[damnfandomproblems]

Fandom Problem #4028

Being (rightfully) upset about bi people being stereotyped as promiscuous or more likely to cheat, and yet CERTAIN fans acting like a bi character being shown as being in a committed long-term relationship with one person is a "cop out" because they aren't actively getting with both genders. 'Cause it would be sooooo much better for representation if they dumped or cheated on their partner to meet your quota for acceptable bi representation.

#ask box submission #fandom problem 4028 #representation #stereotyping #other fans #mischaracterization #character problems

[nomorerww]

I think this review of Memoirs of a Geisha is on point.

It is a smarmy film. And it dehumanizes it's subjects, who never really feel 'real'. the monotonous tone of the narrator makes the whole thing feel like a parody. It's just so weird. If you were a woman talking about some of the most dramatic times in your life would your priority be keeping the voice as breathy as possible?! And it underscores the overall predictability of the script and the fact that the white people who wrote it really loved stereotypes and making characters weirdly disney-fied. Memoirs just doesn't feel convincing

Speaking of convincing, it's just strange that Chiyo/Sayuri's laser focused on being in contact with a guy who bought her a freaking shavd ice as a little kid. She's bffs with Pumpkin, she's spending EVERY DAY with her and the other women in the okiya but the movie wants us to think that she's only thinking of this man old enough to be her father. idc what trope this is or what male wish fulfillment fantasy it came out of (virginal, young woman/teen obsessed with old guys....🤮🤮🤮) but it's WEIRD. It makes her character seem very bland. Not to mention the drama between the original male novel writer, Golding and the actual geisha he interviewed and wasn't supposed to name b/c of the backlash they'd get, which he did anyway and got sued over it. The geisha he talked to was also appalled that he portrayed prostitution (a virginal teen selling her body to old men a.k.a 'mizuage') as part of the role....

anywho

she gets it

back to the original review:

The first sign of trouble for Memoirs of a Geisha was the much reported hullabaloo over director Rob Marshall's decision to cast a slew of Chinese and Malaysian hotties to play the Japanese geishas in his film adaptation of Arthur Golden's best-selling novel.

The notion of national interchangeability irritates people who like to believe we have moved past the old-timey Hollywood where Caucasians in dark makeup used to play Native Americans and white guys in blackface were considered a laugh riot. But ethnically blind casting is the least of Marshall's problems.

[...]

Marshall's glamorized take on sexual slavery imagines Sayuri as a kind of rice-powdered Pretty Woman anxious to learn the art of walking on high heels and pleasing a man so she can win the love of the rich man she met as a little girl, the Chairman (Ken Watanabe).

Sayuri is adopted and taught the tricks of the trade by master coquette Mameha (Michelle Yeoh) and transformed into a geisha-to-be-reckoned-with. Miss Thing becomes the toast of Kyoto. But she has an enemy, rival geisha Hatsumomo (Gong Li) that she'll have to claw past first to become the top geisha in town.

master coquette lmfaooo

Like the battling she-devils of Chicago, Sayuri and Hatsumomo have the kind of hair-pulling rivalry more typical of women-in-prison films and dramas set in American high schools. The ultimate Mean Girls, the geishas are prone to arson, drag-out girl fights and trash-talking about the other geisha's sex life.

When Marshall's geishas don't get their way, contrary to the myth of submissive china dolls hiding behind their fans, they get medieval on somebody's ass.

As Marshall demonstrated in Chicago he has a thing for sexy, trouble-making women and theatrical lighting. A dance number in Geisha where Sayuri entices every codger in the city to bid on the privilege of deflowering the virgin geisha features fake snowfall, a dramatic blood red light and Sayuri in ankle-breaking wooden sandals. It looks like a Flashdance outtake. We know dance is former choreographer Marshall's thing, but it may not work in every film.

the amount of times that they force gong li to grab zhang and shove her face an inch away from hers as she purrs a threat is... too much. it def. feels like lesbian fetishism.

[...]Memoirs of a Geisha is ultimately just another fluffy love story in which Sayuri's desire to be loved by the Chairman becomes her life's ambition.

unfortunately

Despite its strong cast of Asian cinema divas, Geisha feels like a botched opportunity. The film never achieves the vibe it's aiming for, of a female-centric tale of Dickensian struggle for self-determination. Marshall has instead crafted a mildly smarmy, heavy-breathing fantasy about some super-hot babes knocking each other down to get to the man meat while ignoring the fact that they are essentially sex slaves.

Sounds like someone else's fantasy entirely.

*nods vigorously*

#Stereotyping #ethnic stereotypes #memoirs of a geisha

[aroaceconfessions]

I think that the aro community needs to stop stereotyping the entire ace community as a bunch of sex negative assholes. And stop using acephobic stereotypes as excuses to be hostile towards asexuals.

#aromantic #asexual #aroace #arospec #acespec #aspec #aroacespec #arose #infighting #stereotyping #aphobia #acephobia

[anupalya]

Given the predictable intersection of various conversations, I would like to say, just in general:

Being critical of widespread trends in fandom that replicate mainstream societal biases does not make you:

An anti

A gatekeeper

An asshole

Engaging with and enjoying "problematic" ships or kinky/dark fic as fantasy clearly unintended to intersect with reality does not make you:

A bad person

A pedophile

An enabler

These things are on two different scales. The first is about creating a fandom culture and environment that doesn't constantly direct microaggressions (at best) at marginalized fans and continue replicating stereotypes, saturating the dominant fandom culture and further entrenching existing biases.

The second is about recognizing that "problematic" ships and fics are equivalent to solo kink roleplay in your own head, using the characters as personas instead of acting it out with your partner(s) (and please recall that kink is not always sexual).

The first issue is addressed by listening to and elevating marginalized voices and being open to introspection and learning. It is in de-normalizing harmful stereotypes and trends that pervade real life within fandom spaces.

The second is addressed by clear and appropriate tagging, to ensure that such content consumption is consensual and curatable on an individual level (and the act of clear and appropriate tagging and labeling itself even calls the "problematic" elements what they are, the opposite of normalizing them).

The first is about overarching, dominant trends in fandom that constitute patterns that reveal how we at least subconsciously perceive people and characters.

The second is about how on an individual level, fic and shipping are tools for the brain to process any number of concepts and experiences, for non-straightforward reasons.

An inclusive space is (or should be) a kink-positive space, and vice-versa. And both of these are antithetical to purity culture.

#fandom discourse #fandom wank #fandom inclusivity #stereotyping #kink-positive #dark fic #purity culture #dinluke