A while back a friend joked to me about how before he met Lester, he thought he looked pretty intimidating. But then after he met him, and saw him with me he realized Lester is really 'a big teddy bear.' I had a teacher my last semester who told me that she thought I could probably beat her up, and I've had multiple people who hear I'm from the SF area and think that I must be really liberal then. I've heard people who think that because a person is Mormon they must be a polygamist. Or of people who assume that because they are Mormon, they are better then other people.
My point is that in general, stereotypes are dumb. I realize that often they come out of some small truth, but at the end of the day I would rather get to know a person, and then form my opinion of them then believe the often wrong stereotypes.
And in case I didn't get my point across enough with my words, here is a picture to further illustrate it.
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