What Sterotypes do you hate?

[KenM]

1) Stupid people in horror movies. If you hear a chainsaw and maniacal laughter coming from the basement, you wouldn't walk down there to check it out all alone with a dim flashlight.

But if they did not act stupid, the movie would fall apart. So its more like a law that you have to act stupid in a horrow movie.

 

[WayneLigon]

1) Stupid people in horror movies. If you hear a chainsaw and maniacal laughter coming from the basement, you wouldn't walk down there to check it out all alone with a dim flashlight.

Several years ago, I had people over for gaming. We play in the dining room; next to this is the kitchen and past that a darkened laundry room. The dogs sleep in the laundry room when company is over. One dog makes a fairly bizarre noise when she cleans herself, but she doesn't do it very often at all. We're in the dining room playing and I hear her start this sound. I ignore it, but one guy doesn't. He looks towards the dark laundry room a couple times and finally gets up and says 'OK, I have to see what's making that sound'.

We all laughed, and I said 'You know, if this were a horror film, the audience would be all 'No, idiot! Don't go into the dark room alone where the weird sound is coming from!''.

 

[Odhanan]

Some sample stereotypical pet peeves:

- Husbands are always retarded-teen morons (especially in commercials on TV). The Wife is obviously more mature and knows better than the "male".
- People with a non-western lifestyle (native americans and africans for instance) have a more "simple" lifestyle and by extension, personalities. They are morally better people than westerners. Western culture is naturally corrupt. Blame Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the "myth of the good savage" for that.

 

[Ranger REG]

- Husbands are always retarded-teen morons (especially in commercials on TV). The Wife is obviously more mature and knows better than the "male".

Yet I can stomach this over a walking brain-dead trophy wife who speaks her lines that have nothing to do with the topic of the conversation in the scene.

- People with a non-western lifestyle (native americans and africans for instance) have a more "simple" lifestyle and by extension, personalities. They are morally better people than westerners. Western culture is naturally corrupt. Blame Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the "myth of the good savage" for that.

Yep, it's good to be a non-Western.

 

[Rackhir]

But if they did not act stupid, the movie would fall apart. So its more like a law that you have to act stupid in a horrow movie.

There was a great sketch on SNL once that I call the "Wait a moment" Skit. Basically, they are running through the typical Slasher-Killing Teenagers horror movies cliches, but every time the characters would go do the stupid thing that the characters would normally do, they go "Wait a moment."

The Kids making out on the couch, hear a noise from the basement, but rather than go check it out or ignore it and continue making out they go "Wait a moment, there is a serial killer around we should call the police."

The Cops getting the call from the Teenagers start to dismiss it, but then go "Wait a moment. There is a serial killer about and it is our job to check this sort of thing out.

They get to the house are are about to go into the basement, where of course the lights are out and they go "Wait a moment, if there is a serial killer down there we should pull out our flashlights and pistols first."

So they do so and when they open the door and shine their lights down the stairs. Of course there's the serial killer and they open up and blow him away.

 

[Huw]

Yep, it's good to be a non-Western.

According to the text under your avatar, you're in Hawaii. That's UTC-10 hours. That makes you very Western indeed

 

[Mercule]

Yep, it's good to be a non-Western.

But, if you were truly a "noble savage", you wouldn't gloat.

You must be one of them non-white villains. "Mabel, git my gun."

 

[Ranger REG]

But, if you were truly a "noble savage", you wouldn't gloat.

You must be one of them non-white villains. "Mabel, git my gun."

I'm only cruel and sadistic when I'm a DM.

But I'm your basic nice angry guy with nary a Western [European] blood.

 

[Ranger REG]

According to the text under your avatar, you're in Hawaii. That's UTC-10 hours. That makes you very Western indeed

But here it doesn't feel Western.

 

[johnsemlak]

I hate how in cop shows/movies like Law and order or CSI, the federal police (FBI, Secret Service, whatever) are always viewed as incompetent, arrogant, and ignorant. The local police are always treated as the ones who actually understand the situation.