WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | OVERUSED CHARACTER STEREOTYPES

Well, there’s always the lazy answer to this: All of them. I like characters who have layers, who buck easy categorization, who have unexpected personality traits or interests or skills. That always excites me. I hate all the “-ic” and “-ist” stereotypes in particular. Homophobic, racist, sexist, ableist – all of these make my blood boil. I would be happy to never again encounter any of them. Outside of those, I’m tired of a bunch like: only quiet types are readers, all jocks are dumb, pretty girls are mean (and often also stupid), rich people are always evil and have no problems, poor people are lazy, successful people are assholes. There are so many more. The thing I love about humans is how varied we are, and how different we are from one another. I love the endless combinations of characteristics that make up each person out there, and I love that these days it seems that even more nuances and subtleties to identity are being expressed and acknowledged. I think it’s so important to judge each person on who they are rather than making assumptions about any surface information, and to really make and effort to understand who the people in our lives are. It’s generally a wonderfully rewarding process (assuming that we do have some limits to tolerating asshatery, of course!).

What about you guys? Which stereotype or stereotypes do you hate? Which are you just plain sick of?

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