Do we expect too much from human reason?

[Thumpalumpacus]

the only thing that is being "sloppy" is you. You are assigning a value on the word based on your emotional debris. There are a limited number of personality types. Marketing and advertizing companies "stereotype" to hit a target audience. So your sloppiness is thinking that "stereotype[ping" is only bad. That half is thinking.

I didn't say it was "bad". I said it was sloppy -- and it is.

You don't have to like the word. that is not a requirement. But its meaning is valid.

It's not the word I dislike. It's having a stereotype being bandied about my friends and family that I dislike. When I don't like something, I pipe up. Don't like it? Tough shit.

And the fact remains: Stereo typical old people are not found in dance clubs down south street raving at 1am sat.

Nuance isn't your forte, I get it.