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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nuclear Platypus" data-source="post: 3037493" data-attributes="member: 17507">Somewhere I remember reading the actual reason behind women going before men was back before color was invented. If someone was hiding in the shadows ready to kill the man, the woman would take the hit but leave 'emself wide open for a counter like say in the narrow corridors of a castle. As for marksmenship, yes, I do think its pitiful. Heck, I got a handgun license when my vision wasn't completely back after eye surgery. I just aimed for the big blurry thing. Oh, I do hate the stereotype that Texans (or Southerners in general) are a buncha gun toting cowboys that talk slower than a nudist climbing a barbed wire fence aka the drawl. Also about Aladdin, the Arab Americans were offended at the lyrics of a song and demanded it was changed. Something about having one's nose cut off or whathaveyou. Gee, this coming from the culture that brought us the Code of Hammurabi and the thieving hands cut off still is practiced (afaik)? Similarly, the original Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers were criticized for being -racist-! Of course it had to do with the ethnicities of the Black and Yellow Rangers. The idea of Star Trekkian races would all look so similar to us not to mention be compatible enough to allow reproduction - half Klingons, half Bajorans, half Vulcans, half wits, etc.Admittedly it has to do with having a 'happy ending' but having some alien race invade our planet and after getting our butts handed to us, we manage to defeat them despite having inferior technology like an Apple computer.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Various racial stereotypes like Asians all know martial arts, blacks and / or the popular kids will the be the first to die in a horror flick but the 'leftovers' will invariably defeat the monster (probably because they play D&D or some other RPG).Those who play D&D (or other rpgs) are some sort of social misfit while painting one's body in a favorite sports team's colors isn't?The idea that big explosions / great special effects will compensate for a craptacular plot. Standard Hollywood physics like anyone standing by a window in a gunfight will be flung thru said window with extraordinary force, etc.The stereotype that someone who excels in another field can crossover into acting, singing, whatever. Halle Berry, Mariah Carey, J-Lo, etc.</blockquote>

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