Stereotyped

"It cant be pure coincidence that a majority of "attractive" girls are bimbos. It is a choice that they make."

A few days ago, in one of my more thoughtful tweets, I wrote this.

Then, I thought a little more. I wrote this.

"Are a majority of attractive males also mimbos (male bimbos)? Maybe so. Even that has to be a choice, not a coincidence."

I continued in the same vein, thinking (but not tweeting) about more cultural and popular stereotypes. I thought about Madrasis, Punjabis, Malayalis, "Asians" (apparently, the term Asian only covers Chinese people. Thanks for that, USA) and many, many more.

It is really hard to say how these stereotypes came about. Who was the guy who sat down and decided that so and so group should be stereotyped in such and such way? Or did the people themselves get together and decide what their stereotype would be? Are the stereotypes even true?

It does not matter.

The media (mostly books, films and TV) have helped in propagating these stereotypes. From movies, you get the impression that every South Indian speaks with an exaggerated and outlandishly accented English. Also that a black person can never survive whenever a ghost/ spirit is awakened.

But what does matter is this. A lot of people observe these stereotypes and try to act in the same fashion. Of course, this does not apply to the ones I pointed out before. It maybe because ghosts don't exist in the case of the latter.

In other situations though, a lot of people observe characters that they can identify with and try to act or behave like them. You become so good at this that eventually, you ARE the stereotype.

That's why most attractive girls are content being bimbos, most attractive men are mimbos ("assholes" is another way to describe it). The stereotype can actually end up moulding people.

This leads to interesting possibilities. Maybe we should come up with better stereotypes. I can think of many, but I'm afraid they won't be too popular.