Ask Lemmy

I'm like the worst mix of stereotypes. I'm an uneducated factory worker, but I'm not into anything like sports or cars or anything that would connect with these types of people. I'm a science/video game nerd that likes anime, but I'm not in the slightest bit intelligent or involved in IT and have no interest in "cons" or owning any kind of "toys" that relate to games/anime. I'm anything but "normal" but my aesthetic is "Khols stock photo." Other "Khols stock photo" people would have no interest in me.

I pretty much don't belong anywhere lol

If I do, then it's in ways I'm totally blind to.

I'm gay but I have to remind even close friends of that fact from time to time lol.

I'm a huge Star Trek nerd, but I can't quote plot points and episode numbers like bible verses.

I work in IT but I'm far from the as-seen-on-TV geek / graybeard. (thankfully that stereotype is fading away for the most part).

I'm sure there are some stereotypes I fit into that I'm just not aware of, but the ones I am aware of I tend to buck.

To elaborate: I’m a queer leftist vegan with a bisexual partner and I’m not sure of my gender. I’ve got autism, ADHD, and anxiety, and I work part time as a barista in my thirties while very slowly getting a master’s degree in a niche liberal arts field after being unable to find work related to my bachelor’s degree in a related niche liberal arts field. When I was younger, I frequently had blue and/or pink hair, but now I donate my hair, so I don’t dye it anymore; similarly, I’ve had over 15 piercings, but could currently only wear a ring in my septum and maybe my earlobes if I put in some work. I feel very strongly about multiple causes, but do little active protesting.

At the same time, I’m (afab, received socially as a woman, but who knows?) married to a man apprenticing as a butcher, I went back to school after saving up enough money in my role as an adjuster for litigated long tailed claims (basically contract analysis and directing defense strategy), I currently work in my desired field (German language education for new arrivals here in Germany), and I help run a mutual aid group and immigrant support group instead of demonstrating because I’m an immigrant with uncertain status.

I’m very interested in preserving food, handicrafts that help me to be self sufficient, folk dance, and puzzles, but I’m also interested in TTRPGs, mtg, larping, and involved board games. Those groups of activities each fulfill different genres of SJW stereotype (puzzles and larping might work as cross category overlaps), but I also like cycling, rowing, swimming, and lifting weights, which feel like they don’t really fit.

I guess most important would be that I try not to be preachy or judgmental in my daily life and have no reason to believe I don’t succeed- it’s pretty easy to get honest feedback from large groups of students who aren’t expecting my brain to hyperfocus on all spoken English after so long in Germany. Through those aid groups and my husband’s job, I end up giving out about €75 worth of meat a week, which means people are often very surprised that I’m a vegan (but the meat can no longer be sold, though it’s still safe to consume, so there’s no profit going to the butcher, and people buy less meat when they can get it for free, so it reduces demand, so my conscience is clear).

As for being an American in Germany: again, I’m a vegan leftist, but I’ve also mastered German to the degree that I’m a German teacher, and my full married name sounds as bland in Germany as “Katherine Marie Parsons” would in the US.

I'm a pretty geeky IT person, who is trans, watches anime, reads manga, and plays WoW.

Yeah I'm basically a walking stereotype at this point 😅

I typically want to dispell a lot of ridiculous Canadian stereotypes, but I find the opposite happens instead. Case in point:

This is a picture of my father eating cheerios with maple syrup instead of milk.

Yes and no. I am the typical sjw irl cause I can get away with being blunt. I'm gigantic with a shaved head and beard, and whenever I hear somewhere at the bar start in on the typical chud talking points, I immediately address it and let them know they're a piece of shit (very very red area). I'm a socialist/leftist so I got guns and looking the way I do leads to people telling on themselves at the range. I keep a very robust log of who is not allowed in the commune when the fall happens.

Is there a stereotype about a six foot one Native American man who is a jack of all trades and a techie working in the IT field?

If not, I'd say no then.

I fit into more than I break steretypes.

Music style and operating system can be guessed from my looks.

Hobbies is an "aha that makes sense" if you know where I live.

Not much. I am a middle aged white woman, do not ask for the manager or call the police. I fucking love spicy food and all kinds of music, hang out with all sorts of people. My mom used to say my taste in books and movies was that of a teenage boy. Drive a manual 6 speed car when I have to drive. Still tech support for some of my kids and definitely for my husband.

In stereotypical fashion though, I do love a fruity cocktail, use my e-reader to read smut sometimes, and am very good in the kitchen. I do yoga. Love cats!

So maybe an average amount stereotypical?

I'm probably a stereotypical millennial, but if you focused on any of my various individual interests, I don't really fit into any of their cliches.

Sometimes I wonder about which stereotypes I'm resembling, for example when I'm wearing a plaid shirt and cutting down trees with an axe. But that normally only happens two or three times a year.

I think I break more. I don't use makeup and wear very boring clothes and we have strong religious cults around here, so I'm always expected to be one of those cultists - until I open my mouth and start swearing.

I thought I didn't fit a stereotype, but being a light-skinned male making conversation with the LGBTQ community makes me feel like a basic bro. There's a little imposter syndrome with it, too.

I probably break a lot of stereotypes, or maybe I don't?

I'm a woke leftist who grew up "poor" (United States) in a rural farm area, yet I wasn't a farmer, and had two college educated parents.

My roots are redneck, I grew up eating hunted game and surrounded by corn fields and forests.

I watch Democrats where I live now mock rural people, which is a shame. You should mock their bigotry and their stupid ideas, but you shouldn't mock their existence or scorn all things rural.

These people are the downtrodden workers we're supposed to stand for, they just need to be reached with the right messaging to break the chains of decades of propaganda and education, but no one really seems to want to do that.

I've always been a misfit, didn't fit in with the red necks, but I don't fit in with the cultured people, I guess I am the intersection of two borderzones of American culture, and it kind of fucking sucks.

People make tons of assumptions about me from first glance, but I don't even know where I fall on half of the scales of sexuality and gender, I'm just me - I like to dance, I like good music, I to look at beautiful versions of the human form.

Thanks for reading.

I'm.the /r/traa catgirl stereotype

We all do. Stereotypes contain kernels of truth, which do define groups to a certain extent. At the same time, no one fits the bill absolutely perfectly. So, it’s all a matter of perspective and standards. Stereotypes provide general rules of thumb that can be just as harmful as they are helpful. Knowing where to stop applying them is the real artistry.

Nope, not even close. Wish I did in some cases.

I do cover a lot of German stereotypes or so I'm told.

Probably not. I like muscle cars, baseball, beer, and rock music, and I despise the orange pedonazi and any of his followers.

I don't think so. The closest one would probably be the male stereotype, but even there I have some pretty major differences from your typical male. Like the fact that I don't like sex, drink alcohol, watch sports, or are incapable of handling difficult situations by talking them through without raising my voice or insulting you.

I consider myself pretty "unpredictable" in the sense that it's virtually impossible to predict what I think about X based on what I think about Y and Z.

Not many, no

Id say im stereotypical as an average white guy overall. I dont watch sports, drink, etc but otherwise think im pretty normal and uninteresting

I do mostly not fulfill stereotypes of the groups/things I am part of.

Yes, I do fulfill the German stereotype in part. But even that is not fully due to being German, but also because of being an Autist. And there I am very atypical - at least regarding popular belief.

Yes and No. I work in Science, an Engineering Departement, do like some good Metal or Rock and wear a lot of Caro Shirts. But I am also a woman, so that breaks the stereotype a bit.

I am also really into books, cats and baking which somehow fits into some stereotypes about women.

At the same time I like to lift, run long distances and do events like Mud-Masters (basically a muddy obstacle run). I guess this fits a bit more into the Engineering/Science thing, but not quite.