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Poll: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged?
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Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged?
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged?
Stereotypes are oversimplified characteristics, I think a lot of them are based on at least somethings that you can say are true on average.

For example the average male will be physically stronger than the average female.

I think results seem to show that black people are less intelligent than white people.

http://www.therichest.com/rich-list/poor.../?view=all

https://www.google.com/fusiontables/Data...#rows:id=1


http://www.statisticbrain.com/countries-...verage-iq/

These lists also seem to confirm the stereotype than on average Asians are very intelligent.  One of the websites says there is no concrete evidence to show that these results are due to genetic racial traits, it could be environmental and cultural.

But these are stereotypes, the definition of which is oversimplified ideas of a persons characteristics, as I said in my previous post it's wrong to judge people based on stereotypes because they are oversimplified by definition.


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RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Longhorn - January 15, 2016 at 9:33 am
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Longhorn - January 15, 2016 at 9:49 am
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by MTL - January 18, 2016 at 1:05 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Regina - January 15, 2016 at 12:01 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Losty - January 15, 2016 at 1:16 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Losty - January 15, 2016 at 2:30 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Losty - January 15, 2016 at 2:38 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Losty - January 15, 2016 at 2:48 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Longhorn - January 15, 2016 at 2:43 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Ben Davis - January 15, 2016 at 9:34 am
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Longhorn - January 15, 2016 at 9:51 am
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by drfuzzy - January 15, 2016 at 11:50 am
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Ben Davis - January 15, 2016 at 1:21 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Longhorn - January 15, 2016 at 2:20 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Ben Davis - January 18, 2016 at 9:55 am
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Ben Davis - January 18, 2016 at 12:28 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Grandizer - January 18, 2016 at 1:20 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Ben Davis - January 19, 2016 at 9:23 am
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Ben Davis - January 19, 2016 at 10:25 am
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Grandizer - January 15, 2016 at 5:41 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Longhorn - January 15, 2016 at 9:55 am
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Longhorn - January 15, 2016 at 10:02 am
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by *Deidre* - January 15, 2016 at 9:58 am
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Longhorn - January 15, 2016 at 10:06 am
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by c172 - January 19, 2016 at 9:55 am
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by abaris - January 15, 2016 at 10:14 am
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by *Deidre* - January 15, 2016 at 10:15 am
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by MTL - January 18, 2016 at 1:20 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by paulpablo - January 15, 2016 at 11:15 am
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Brian37 - January 15, 2016 at 11:36 am
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Aoi Magi - January 15, 2016 at 11:51 am
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Longhorn - January 15, 2016 at 12:10 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Losty - January 15, 2016 at 1:18 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by MTL - January 18, 2016 at 1:27 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Kingpin - January 15, 2016 at 12:36 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by drfuzzy - January 15, 2016 at 1:22 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by drfuzzy - January 15, 2016 at 1:33 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Brian37 - January 15, 2016 at 1:25 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by paulpablo - January 15, 2016 at 1:56 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Losty - January 21, 2016 at 10:46 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Losty - January 21, 2016 at 10:54 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Losty - January 21, 2016 at 10:55 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Divinity - January 15, 2016 at 12:20 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Longhorn - January 15, 2016 at 12:31 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Losty - January 15, 2016 at 1:24 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by drfuzzy - January 15, 2016 at 1:52 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by paulpablo - January 15, 2016 at 2:00 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Losty - January 15, 2016 at 1:57 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Losty - January 15, 2016 at 2:02 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by drfuzzy - January 15, 2016 at 2:20 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by drfuzzy - January 15, 2016 at 2:23 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Longhorn - January 15, 2016 at 2:28 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by drfuzzy - January 15, 2016 at 3:01 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Longhorn - January 15, 2016 at 2:47 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by brewer - January 15, 2016 at 2:48 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Brian37 - January 15, 2016 at 6:53 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by brewer - January 15, 2016 at 6:21 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Losty - January 18, 2016 at 5:14 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Grandizer - January 19, 2016 at 4:03 am
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Grandizer - January 19, 2016 at 4:26 am
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Grandizer - January 19, 2016 at 4:38 am
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by paulpablo - January 20, 2016 at 9:04 am
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by paulpablo - January 20, 2016 at 11:32 am
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Ben Davis - January 20, 2016 at 11:46 am
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by paulpablo - January 20, 2016 at 1:18 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Mothonis - January 19, 2016 at 10:40 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by vorlon13 - January 19, 2016 at 11:03 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by paulpablo - January 20, 2016 at 12:27 am
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by paulpablo - January 20, 2016 at 10:24 am
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Losty - January 20, 2016 at 11:09 am
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by paulpablo - January 20, 2016 at 9:28 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Longhorn - January 20, 2016 at 11:14 am
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Losty - January 21, 2016 at 2:24 am
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by paulpablo - January 21, 2016 at 6:39 am
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Losty - January 21, 2016 at 5:22 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by paulpablo - January 21, 2016 at 7:26 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Losty - January 21, 2016 at 7:41 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by paulpablo - January 21, 2016 at 8:59 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Losty - January 21, 2016 at 8:43 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by drfuzzy - January 21, 2016 at 8:51 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Losty - January 21, 2016 at 9:04 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Athene - January 21, 2016 at 9:31 pm
RE: Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged? - by Whateverist - January 21, 2016 at 10:53 pm

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