A rant on gender stereotypes

[paulpablo]

Now let me put on my pig hat and talk about a more realistic situation-- deciding whether in wartime women should be drafted as soldiers. I'd say not, because I wouldn't expect a woman just dragged off the street to adapt well to the life of a frontline grunt

It's pretty off topic to the thread but in the 2nd world war when soviet women were forced to battle at stalingrad there are accounts of female snipers groups who were supposedly merciless and very good at what they did.

I agree with most of what is being said in this thread about gender stereotypes, I find it annoying that my gender is supposed to have this strong emotional tie with a football team, and support that team with a passion, even though the players probably aren't from the city the team represents, the supports aren't either or the manager, and the owner is probably an arab or russian oil tycoon, and the players, and the quality of players change depending on the changing of the owners budget. So you're basically cheering for the football teams shirt.
And I'm supposed to shout "We won we won" when the team wearing the shirts I support win, except I didn't win, I just watched.

Another is drinking beer, less alcohol than vodka, whiskey, gin, absinth therefore less fun. Also responsible for 20 year olds who already have beer bellies. The taste is something I've grown to like as I've got older, I'm now 30. But when I was 14 and 15 and drinking there was nothing I hated more then some boring dickhead who would drink guiness or some old man drink at a party or concert in an effort to be more manly. Also probably the worst drink to have right before a mosh pit aswell from personal experience.

But threads like this annoy me when people get carried away by saying things along the lines of "Yeh a woman could box like Mike Tyson in his prime but just because they have a vagina people won't let them, it's just because culture holds them back otherwise a woman could beat up Brock Lesnar in MMA".

It's like saying white people could run faster than black people except culture has been discouraging them from doing well in the 100 meter dash.

I do agree that stereotypes shouldn't prevent people doing what they want to do.
I also think though that people should be proud of and develop what they are good at whether it fits the stereotype of who they are or not.