Stereotyping Quotes

“never trust a Troglotroll”
― Walter Moers

“(Stereotyping) is only for those without the imagination to see people as they are instead of being like someone else they understand.”
― Tom Clancy, Red Rabbit

“I live bigger than your labels.
-Samantha N.”
― Rachel Fershleiser, I Can't Keep My Own Secrets: Six-Word Memoirs by Teens Famous & Obscure

“There seems to be an unspoken assumption that women aren't interested in horror and speculative fiction, despite ample evidence to the contrary.”
― Lisa Kröger, Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction

“The Anti-Stereotype Sonnet

Black is not evil.
White is not trash.
Brown is not illegal.
Muslims don’t crash.
Women ain't weak.
Jews ain't greedy.
Men ain't playboys.
Queer ain't sickly.
Hijab is not oppression.
Hourglass ain't beauty.
Faith is not delusion.
Atheists don't lack morality.
Assumptions only reveal shallowness.
Beyond stereotypes lies humaneness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted

“Stop the noise of assumption and you'll hear the music of ascension.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism

“Boxes are for objects, not humans.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“[Walter Lippmann] applied the term “stereotype” to what he called “the pictures in our heads”—impressions that reflect subjective perceptions but stand in for objective reality. The word comes from the old typesetting process, in which a mold of a message is cast on a metal plate and replicated in the printing process again and again—mimicking the unchecked spread of ideas that we only presume to be true. Those ideas then dictate how we interpret what we see.”
― Jennifer L. Eberhardt

“People may "other" me for the color of my skin and the shape of my eyes. This is their weakness. It is not mine.”
― The Thoughtful Beast

“One of the benefits of being labelled a madman is that it permits you strange behaviour.”
― Mzee Bryan Moseni Kabamba

“Simply to make the accusation is to prove it. To hear the allegation is to believe it. No motive for the perpetrator is necessary, no logic or rationale is required. Only a label is required. The label is the motive. The label is the evidence. The label is the logic. Why did Coleman Silk do this? Because he is an x, because he is a y, because he is both. First a racist and now a misogynist. It is too late in the century to call him a Communist, though that is the way it used to be done. A misogynistic act committed by a man who already proved himself capable of a vicious racist comment at the expense of a vulnerable student. That explains everything. That and the craziness.”
― Philip Roth, The Human Stain

“Don't read too deeply into the things I say. You might drown.”
― Faraaz Kazi

“My grandfather used to say that God's tonic for someone was physical labor. She also felt toads caused infertility, but that was another issue.”
― Kathy Reichs, Grave Secrets

“The answer, they say, is that the parties we perceive are quite different from the parties that exist. To test the theory, they conducted a survey asking people “to estimate the percentage of Democrats who are black, atheist, or agnostic, union members, and gay, lesbian or bisexual and the percentage of Republicans who are evangelical, 65 or older, Southern, and earn over $250,000 per year.” They were asking, in other words, how much people thought the composition of the parties fit the caricatures of the parties.

Misperceptions were high among everyone, but they were particularly exaggerated when people were asked to describe the other party. Democrats believed 44 percent of Republicans earned over $250,000 a year; it’s actually 2 percent. Republicans believe that 38 percent of Democrats were gay, lesbian or bisexual; the correct answer is about 6 percent. Democrats believe that more than 4 out of every ten Republicans are seniors; in truth, seniors make up about 20 percent of the GOP. Republicans believed that 46 percent of Democrats are black and 44 percent belong to a union; in reality, about 24 percent of Democrats are African American and less than 11 percent belong to a union.”
― Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized

“Stereotypes die hard, but they must, otherwise people will.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“So entrenched is our fictional image of Gypsies that we often brush aside real-world experiences as a mirage when they contradict the picture that we have absorbed and internalized.”
― Yaron Matras, I Met Lucky People: The Story of the Romani Gypsies

“But on one occasion he was lost for words. 'If it's all as bad as you describe,' asked an inconspicuous young man at the end of one of the lectures, 'then why did you choose to become a Gypsy?' His image of Gypsies had marked them as a mere lifestyle, a fashion, a brand.”
― Yaron Matras, I Met Lucky People: The Story of the Romani Gypsies

“But I do hold the view that we need to rethink and revise our picture of the Romani people and to move away from the literary images and brands, and on to understanding the real everyday lives and aspirations of a real people.”
― Yaron Matras

“Don’t attempt to put people in a box that you have not spent some time in yourself. For once you do, you’ll rather quickly come to understand that people weren’t built for boxes. Rather, they were built to break them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When we see beings as belonging to a particular group, for instance, we start to believe there's something fundamental and biological that unites all the creatures in that group, that there's some invisible essence that makes a dog a dog and a cat a cat. We do the same thing with humans: if we are told that a category is important, we infer that the people in the people in that category share a fundamental essence. We essentially them. And the more a category is emphasized, the more we think its members have a unifying thread.”
― Jessica Nordell, The End of Bias: A Beginning: How We Eliminate Unconscious Bias and Create a More Just World

“With theorization, the extraterrestrials made conclusions about their peers based on their racial features, even though they didn’t have a sufficient amount of evidence to substantiate the theories.”
― Lucy Carter, Logicalard Fallacoid

“Because the aviator-organisms are flexible with the atmospheric attributes of the area they’re flying in, the other three races theorized and overall concluded that all aviator-organisms were unable to incisively analyze their surroundings and formulate an opinion, and, with their putative lack of incisiveness, the other races concluded that they’ll be unable to find a permanent, suitable abode for themselves, as they thought that they’ll be constantly flying in search for one, and, therefore, become so tired that the aviator-organisms would be unable to provide for themselves. Because they would be unable to provide for themselves, they would become extinct. The other three races did not compile a sufficient amount of evidentiary support to prove that it is possible for the entire concatenation of events to actually occur. They used the slippery slope fallacy, which would make them slip and suffer a downfall.”
― Lucy Carter, Logicalard Fallacoid

“She also managed to recite the phrase “Theories are not synonymous to facts,” on Mondays and Tuesdays, “Idiots accept blindly while geniuses confirm consciously” on Wednesdays and Thursdays, and, on Fridays and Saturdays, she recited her favorite phrase: “Stereotyping is a logical fallacy.” She meant every single phrase in all sincerity, which prevented her from searching for the extraterrestrials out of boredom and deprivation from social interaction.”
― Lucy Carter, Logicalard Fallacoid

“Unfortunately, the robot did not make it to Earth, where there are several problems with logical fallacies, stereotyping, and the inability to distinguish a theory from a fact. Maybe everyone on Earth should wear cloaks, so no one would be judged based on preconceived notions about race, gender, and other possible biological or social factors that are so terribly susceptible to stereotyping. Stereotyping, to all those on Earth who may be reading this, is nothing more than a bunch of theories that replace facts, and those theories are nothing more than a bunch of stupid argumentative claims supported by logical fallacies.”
― Lucy Carter, Logicalard Fallacoid

“A single mother! I’ll put you on the watchlist for post-natal depression then!’.”
― Sophie Heawood, The Hungover Games: A True Story

“You could not have known he was going to leave Spicy Brunette at the altar for Cute Blondie unless you'd seen this before. I think I've been played," Benny huffs as he finishes off the last fry.
"Think about what you're saying, Ben Kenobi. Spicy versus cute. We're never supposed to like the spicy woman in movies, not for the romantic hero to end up with. He's supposed to go with the aw-shucks, girl-next-door type who was right in front of his face all along. Spicy gal never had a chance, bless her heart."
He scrunches his nose, mulling this over. "Then I have a dilemma, see," he says, and his feigned thoughtfulness makes me smirk.
"Oh, do you?"
"Yeah, because what if I'm into this girl who's cute but also spicy? Is she too good to be true? Can I really have one or the other?”
― Kaitlyn Hill, Love from Scratch

“Tidak bisakah seseorang berdiri sendiri apa adanya? Tidak bisakah orang dipandang sebagai individu bukan kelompok? Dari perbuatannya bukan dari garis keturunannya?".”
― Chandra Bientang, Sang Peramal

“I mean, who even are the English? The descendants of the Germanic tribes? We're a great hotchpotch really, aren't we? A mishmash of Celts, Anglo-Saxons, Danes, Normans, et cetera, et cetera, to a complicatedly hybrid ancestry, barely united for centuries, and our borders always shifting. We're not a pure, homogenous race sprung from English soil, are we? When people talk about Englishness, I often get a whiff of frowsty Victorian velvet," she mused, articulating more expansively with her hands as she warmed to her theme. "It makes me think of paintings of King Alfred, Ivanhoe and Tennyson, people putting on dressing-up clothes to do archery, and William Morris tapestries. Perhaps Englishness is less about geography and historical dates and more about symbols and emotions? There are lots of tripwires and misty hollows between the lions and unicorns, aren't there? When you begin to think about what Englishness means--- and, by extension, English food--- it all starts to become rather precarious and complicated, doesn't it?”
― Caroline Scott, Good Taste

“Breaking free from dead people’s opinions means recognizing our tendency to repeat patterns. Are we maintaining stereotypes or allowing freedom to live our best lives?"​​.”
― Runa Magnusdottir, The Story of Boxes, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly: The Secret to Human Liberation, Peace and Happiness

“On being Single.
How many times have we heard people asking “So why are you single?” “Oh no! What happened!?” I haven’t heard anyone ask “So why are you in a relationship? Oh no what happened?!” As if being in a relationship is a standard of happiness or the only way to be “in” and being single is a “curse” of some sort.

Now let’s change the narrative. Maybe this “single” person chose not to carry the emotional baggage and shit of other people. Maybe she was able to finally gather her courage and leave the demon in hell. OR… maybe that person is just really happy on her own, has a good relationship with herself and provides her own happiness. Many a partner isn’t a necessity for her but just an option. Maybe she feels COMPLETE just by being with herself. Maybe she is her own HERO and rather than be stoned — her strength and independence should be CELEBRATED.

May we learn to upgrade our mindset, transform our mental landscape and overcome limiting beliefs. EYO! (Educate Your Opinion) and peace!”
― Mystqx Skye, EYO! Educate Your Opinion