stereotypes are stereotypes for a reason...


Yes. The reason is that the individual forwarding them and using them is too self-absorbed, lazy, misanthropic or unable to want to observe or discover facts, and there fore needs to defend himselffrom the pain of understanding by falling into automatic, knee-jerk mechnaisms like false stable beliefs, sterotypes, generalizations about large classes of people which are not in fact defensible, and other mechanisms frequently needed by the weak or lazy mind.

A