Stereotypes

I don't think there is anybody who think stereotypes are a good thing, but a thought has always lingered in the back of my mind when I was learning about stereotyping. Now I want to share it with you: Stereotypes had to come from someplace.

By this I am not saying, by any means, that stereotyping is good. It is terrible, and something that should never be done. Some people say people get stereotypes from TV or things like that. But TV had to get their stereotypes from someplace. It isn't something random when somebody gets a stereotype. It often means that the person is just thinking of the majority group as everybody. Let's take the example of scientists.

Picture a scientist in your head. What is (s)he doing? What gender is (s)he? Most people will probably think of a male scientist, versus a female one. It's true, believe it or not, that many more scientists are male than female.  As for what your scientist is doing, it's harder to predict. However, your scientist is most likely to be a chemist (but not by much) because chemistry is the most unique and interesting of the types of scientists.