Stereotypes

As far as I can tell, the only reason stereotypes are objectionable is because they are true. Not true in the sense that every member of the stereotyped group is always as depicted. But a lot of 'em are, a lot of the time. Otherwise there'd be no offense.

We have a funny cultural rule nowadays that if you belong to a victim group, then you might be able to invoke stereotypes or use insulting language. If you are an outsider, and especially if you don't belong to another hierarchically approved victim group, then you are eeevil and must be destroyed.

The frequency with which Black comedians (and other Blacks) use the word "nigger" is clear as day. But let a White use it and they act like the Emancipation Proclamation is about to be rescinded. Clearly it is not the word, or the stereotype, that is offensive. It is about who uses it. Part of the reverse power hierarchy of Political Correctness. Blacks can make fun of Whites now and it supposed to be cool, but the reverse is always a crime. BS.

And a lot of the PC behavior that our liberal schoolmarms enforce is --besides being lies-- really just pandering to group ego under the guise of "dignity". The Larry Summers women-in-science fiasco is just one example. A recent History channel program on theories of the settlement of the Western Hemisphere constantly referred to the Siberian immigrants as "the first Americans." That makes no more sense than calling the Etruscans "the first Italians". But we have to make believe.

Speaking of stereotypes, the Logo channel --a festival of gay stereotypes-- has a Canadian program on called 1 Girl, 5 Gays. "What happens when one sassy straight girl gets up close and personal with five fierce gay men? A whole lot of OMFG!"  1 Fag Hag and 5 Queens, or 6 Ghyrls, would be a better title. Headshakingly embarrassing.