A rant on gender stereotypes

[CapnAwesome]

Lots of them are true. I think people sometimes confuse stereotypes with the idea that it applies to every individual. Of course it doesn't. Whatever you and your brother are like doesn't really matter when compared to the whole population.

(Bold mine) - I'd like to know what stereotypes are true without counting the ones that are deliberately perpetuated by people on purpose?

And yes, the idea of a stereotype is to gather a number of characteristics that are supposed to describe a specific group without exceptions. People who believe certain stereotypes genuinely think any member of the stereotyped group bears those characteristics.

I think you and I have different ideas of what makes a stereotype. I don't think people necessarily think that a stereotype applies to every single person of so and so group. If I say that men and stronger then women (duh) I would think it's implied that I don't believe every single man is stronger than every single woman. Again, Duh.

Well I'm going to use one brought up in the opening post, which is that women aren't good at working on cars or mechanics. I also am not good at working on cars. In high school even less. On a test called the ASVAB I scored in the bottom 30% when compared to other men in Automotive knowledge. However it's was in something like the top 20% if I was compared to women. So if someone says women don't know anything about cars, obviously they don't mean all of them and equally obviously it is a true statement.