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This stereotype has become so ingrained it has spawned counter-narratives, such as in the 2001 film Legally Blonde in which Reese Witherspoon succeeds at Harvard despite biases against her beauty and blonde hair, and terms developed such as cookie cutter blond ( CCB ), implying standardized blond looks and standard perceived social and intelligence characteristics of a blond.
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It seems to me the time has come for the American press to start experimenting with ways of reporting the news that will do a better job of communicating and will be less subject to abuse by those who have learned how to manipulate the present stereotype to serve their own ends.
Expressions of even low-key dissatisfaction by a Catholic college faculty member has the effect of confirming the already existing stereotype.
It has been said that Bardeen proves wrong the stereotype of the " crazy scientist.
Liking Lewis has long been a common stereotype about the French in the minds of many English-speakers, and is often the object of jokes in Anglosphere pop culture.
The Mormon Corridor region, which has the highest Mormon populations, has been nicknamed the " Jell-O Belt ", referring to the 20th century Mormon cultural stereotype that Mormons have an affinity for Jell-O ( a gelatin-based food ).
As a gay man, Bingham has been widely honored posthumously for having " smashed the gay stereotype mold and really opened the door to many others that came after him.
The contemporary stereotype of rhetoric as " empty speech " or " empty words " reflects a radical division of rhetoric from knowledge, a division that has had influential adherents within the rhetorical tradition, most notably Plato and Peter Ramus.
With the beginning of the open era, the establishment of an international professional tennis circuit, and revenues from the sale of television rights, tennis's popularity has spread worldwide, and the sport has shed its upper / middle-class English-speaking image ( although it is acknowledged that this stereotype still exists ).
The false stereotype of XYY boys and men as violent criminals has also been used as a plot device in the horror films Il gatto a nove code in February 1971 ( dubbed into English as The Cat o ' Nine Tails in May 1971 ) and Alien³ in May 1992.
The concept of wearing a tin foil hat for protection from such threats has become a popular stereotype and term of derision ; the phrase serves as a byword for paranoia and persecutory delusions, and is associated with conspiracy theorists.
The musician Donald Fagen has described Simon's childhood as that of " a certain kind of New York Jew, almost a stereotype, really, to whom music and baseball are very important.
McClure has become the apotheosis of the stereotype, a gut-achingly funny reinterpretation whose trademark introduction ... has become a shorthand way to describe any grossly artificial media figure.
He has been widely described, most notably by Theodor Adorno, as a negative Jewish stereotype, with his race expressed through " distorted " music and " muttering " speech ; other critics, however, disagree with this assessment.
Thompson, who is openly gay, has always directly confronted charges that Buddy is a homophobic stereotype.
This has commonly been referred to as the " battle axe " stereotype.
He has landed the title role in an off-off-Broadway production of Richard III, but the director, Mark ( Paul Benedict ), wants him to play the character as an exaggerated stereotype of a homosexual, in Mark's words, " the queen who wanted to be king.
Rain Mans portrayal of the main character's condition has been seen as inaugurating a common and incorrect media stereotype that people on the autism spectrum typically have savant skills, and references to Rain Man, in particular Dustin Hoffman's performance, have become a popular shorthand for autism and savantism.
The film has been criticized for featuring the Magical Negro stereotype with Oda Mae Brown.
The Apes of God ( 1930 ) has been interpreted similarly, because many of the characters satirised are Jewish, including the modernist author and editor Julius Ratner, a portrait which blends anti-semitic stereotype with historical literary figures ( John Rodker and James Joyce ; though the Joyce element consists solely in the use of the word " epiphany " in the parody of Rodker included in the novel ).
Therefore, the theory has been used to explore an array of dependent variables including disordered eating, mental health, depression, motor performance, body image, idealized body type, stereotype formation, sexual perception and sexual typing.
The battered woman syndrome has been criticized on similar grounds: that it encourages the societal stereotype of women as helpless and incapacitated.
This has led to the stereotype of Italians adding to the ends of English words.
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It is clear that, while most writers enjoy picturing the Negro as a woolly-headed, humble old agrarian who mutters `` yassuhs '' and `` sho' nufs '' with blissful deference to his white employer ( or, in Old South terms, `` massuh '' ), this stereotype is doomed to become in reality as obsolete as Caldwell's Lester.
More than anything, it is the therapist's intuitive sensing of these latent meanings in the stereotype which helps these meanings to become revealed, something like a spread-out deck of cards, on sporadic occasions over the passage of the patient's and his months of work together.
But it is true that the therapist can sense, when he hears this stereotype, that there are at this moment many emotional determinants at work in it, a blurred babel of indistinct voices which have yet to become clearly delineated from one another.
# When labeling is a conscious activity, the described person's individual merits become apparent, rather than their stereotype.
He tries to get his chief to become more short tempered, as per the stereotype in movies, by taking on bigger jobs.
However, a desire for increased dramatic potential led to a move away from this stereotypical character, until in the 1980s and 1990s, the counterstereotypical angst-ridden anti-hero had become so popular as to constitute a new stereotype.
In the United Kingdom, the habit of wearing a handkerchief with tied corners on one's head at the beach has become a seaside postcard stereotype, referenced by the Gumby characters in Monty Python's Flying Circus.
* The Tagalog term " Anak ni Padre Dámaso " (" child of Padre Dámaso " has become a stereotype or cliché in the Philippines to refer to a white or half-white ( Spanish: mestizo ) child whose father is unknown.
Other aspects of the narrative which appear to conform to this stereotype have become ' correct practice ' but the naive storing of a red wine, a beaujolais, in the refrigerator ironically is the correct practice for beaujolais nouveau.
The concept of a butler wandering between party guests holding a silver tray with a pyramid of Ferrero Rocher has become a trope and a popular stereotype of diplomacy in general.
* Heterosexual men who disqualify appealing women as " relationship material " based on the stereotype that beautiful women are less likely to be faithful as girlfriends or wives, or to become good mothers, and would be the most likely to seek divorce.
A cold, heartless tyrant, Nurse Ratched has become the stereotype of the nurse as a battleaxe.
It could be used to convey a feeling of a more traditional and emotional attraction, rather than a superficial one that has become a stereotype of the 21st century.
Christine L. Marran puts the national fascination with Abe's story within the context of the dokufu or " poison woman " stereotype, a transgressive female character type which had first become popular in Japanese serialized novels and stage works in the 1870s.
The concept of wearing a tin foil hat for protection from such threats has become a popular stereotype and term of derision ; the phrase serves as a byword for paranoia and is associated with conspiracy theorists.
A common stereotype is that of a man who accepts a career in nursing as an unfortunate secondary career choice, either failing to become a physician or still trying to become one.
The accessory has become part of a " nerd " or " geek " fashion stereotype, probably because of its association with engineers or students.
The stereotype generally involves a nagging, overprotective, manipulative, controlling, smothering, and overbearing mother or wife, one who persists in interfering in her children's lives long after they have become adults.
Examples of their innovations were the development of a whole series of distinct stereotype characters which were to become the stock characters of Western comedy and the contributions they made to the development of the play.
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