Sentences with phrase «old stereotype of»

Their presence challenges the old stereotype of college years being a time of food excesses, with late - night pizza runs, all - you - can - eat cafeterias, and the notorious «Freshman 15.»

In the coming November and December, Phoebe Man tries to negotiate this taboo with her latest exhibition «P - read» in Para / Site that hopefully initiates critiques on our old stereotype of gender.

I suspect the old stereotype of plutocrats in fur coats is at play here — an Hermes handbag goes unnoticed, but there's nothing like fur to enrage a class warrior!

The tired old stereotype of a mystery writer as some hard - boiled noir guy with a cigarette in one hand and a tumbler full of whiskey in the other is obsolete.

What I expected was the same old stereotype of every Italian sedan.

The old stereotype of assistant principals as the enforcers of discipline is challenged by the much more varied and nuanced roles they occupy in today's schools.

The old stereotype of «fundamentalist» Christian schools as rigid and insular distorts their public image.

Unfortunately, as quickly as the old stereotype of Russian females disappeared, a new stereotype emerged; «All Russian women want to escape from Russia» and because of this new labeling, the Internet has so manyRussian Dating agencies.

It's easy to recognise the age - old stereotype of a young Tory hating the working class.

Why continue that old stereotype of greedy Jews?

Women tend to be more neurotic than men, but contrary to hoary old stereotypes of moody women, it's actually openness to new experiences that most dents the productivity of female workers.

All this talk of semidomestication, he says, simply dredges up centuries - old stereotypes of cats as peculiar beings.

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It looks like members of Generation Y have started to believe the «hopeless millennials» stereotype, according to a report from the Conference Board of Canada examining the workplace preferences and expectations of Generations X and Y. Attracting and Retaining the 2020 Workforce suggests that the greener cohort has a lower desired job ceiling than their slightly - older colleagues:

Coming from a younger, male, techie sort of stereotype, they sort of tend to think of themselves but older generations are absolutely under - served.

Well, those same people need to exercise a little more brain power here, because the notion that every HR department is old - fashioned, full of red tape and works in a bubble is a misguided stereotype.

«MoFo's policies and practices are emblematic of the «old boys» club» that permeates law firms, suppresses female advancement, and stereotypes women,» claims the lawsuit, which was filed in U.S District Court in San Francisco.

While it's vital to remember that generational stereotypes don't apply to every member of a particular population, it is true that many millennials are motivated by different things than their older colleagues were as they entered the world of work.

A big part of trucking's problem is that much of the public's perception is frozen in some decades - old stereotype.

Within oldline Protestantism there are many exceptions, but that is the stereotype because it is so persistently reinforced by what old - line Protestants, especially the more visible and vocal of them, say and do.

Many stereotypes of old age are untrue.

But then there was a slight majority of media members who shot back with the same old tired stereotypes about our generation: «Entitled.»

One such project is a «worker equity» program that attempts, as one of its goals, to eradicate from employers» minds the common negative stereotypes of older employees (they are stubborn, lazy, have less energy, do not adapt to new technologies) Another unit of the organizations the Interreligious Liaison Office, is also involved with the non-material aspects of aging.

Both women and men need, and are asking for, the kind of counseling and consciousness raising which will help them challenge old stereotypes and liberate more fully their spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical potential.

She's a wise - cracking, comedically abusive and pot - smoking older lady, which means that Perry is playing her in drag — a fact that some other black filmmakers like Spike Lee have criticized, accusing Perry of being too uncomfortably close to racial stereotypes of the past.

He, like many other Jews, sees a need to break down old, closed - minded stereotypes of Evangelicals only because these conservative Christians are Jew - and Israel - friendly, making an alliance politically beneficial given today's realities.

Definition of PLATITUDE an idea or expression that has been used by many people Synonyms banality, bromide, chestnut, cliché (also cliche), groaner, homily, platitude, shibboleth, trope, truism Related Words conventional wisdom, party line, routine; inanity; generality, generalization, simplification; adage, proverb, idiom, saw, saying; old wives» tale, stereotype Near Antonyms profundity

There were intimations by the middle of the 20th century that the old Protestant stereotypes of Aquinas might be crumbling around the edges.

The ministry has become less and less attractive to vigorous and promising young men because of its identification with a rejected older order, the stereotypes which have developed, and probably most important of all because the «old time religion» no longer appeals to many of the young.

One interesting phenomenon is the fresh study of Luther and the Reformation by Catholic scholars that has shattered the old Catholic stereotypes.

My husband has become very health conscience, and I have been EXTREMELY discouraged, I was born and raised in Alabama, (And yes a lot of the stereotypes are correct, we love our butter, fried things and desert) Both my parents are close to being diabetic and my younger brother is a very brittle diabetic, I have a 2 year old that its been so hard for me to tell her no, you can't have cake, you can't have muffins, you can't you can't you can't.

The stereotype of the wine collector is a fusty old geezer who likes to stroke his precious magnums by candlelight.

He had left the U.S. with all of the old stereotypes unresolved.

The stereotype of Balkan - Australian football clubs and supporters being old - fashioned in their value system was the subject of a recent article in WA Today.

In a series of experiments, Cohen, Walton, and Yeager have shown the power of what seem to be small - scale mindset interventions — watching a brief video of an older student talking about his struggles with belonging, or reading a magazine article that presents a growth - mindset perspective on brain development — to significantly improve the academic performance of students who are vulnerable to stereotype threat, including low - income students and African - American students.

Telling girls they shouldn't be bold with a guy they like perpetuates old gendered stereotypes that will keep all of us trapped.

So many people cling to the old school stereotypes of birthmoms, I wanted to show those are the exception not the rule.

Stereotypes of older people are being dashed,» says biological anthropologist Helen Fisher, who helped facilitate the study, along with social historian Stephanie Coontz and evolutionary biologist Justin Garcia.

Study after study after study seem to insist that being a middle child forces you into a grouping of stereotyped neglected children that are often overlooked by parents or overshadowed by older siblings.

But there is a very prevalent stereotype in popular media of the sort of bumbling dad who..., or either dad's absent or dad just can't get it right and I think some of it goes back to really «old» and I would say, «inaccurate» stereo - types about «men are from Mars and women are from Venus» and I hear over and over again from dads, especially, expectant dads, I feel so bad for when we have the new baby, there's going to be nothing that I can do.

But, yeah, if your teenager, you know, comes home on the back of the motor cycle with her first tattoo with her, you know, boyfriend, you know, 5 years older than she is, yeah, you know, that's the, sorry to stereotype this, I mean, that's the time, start talking about HPV vaccine, make sure Hepatitis B vaccine, you know, it's already been administered.

Rob McGee, a 27 - year - old Albany attorney and Peekskill native whose suit and clean - cut boyish good looks run counter to the dirty - hippe stereotype of the Occupy movement, raised the possibility during a CapTon interview last night that demonstrators could remain camped out in Academy Park through the winter and into the spring.

However, as coverage of the recent Muslim protests shows, we frame the discussion by reverting to age - old stereotypes, which only serves to deepen misunderstanding.

On the right the stereotype is typically more racially focused probably because most economies are capitalist markets, and most of the right wing is older so the social programs like social security and medicare don't really offend them.

There has been some limited attempt to appeal to women with the «Women for Britain» campaign and interestingly a recent «talk to Gran» (watch out for the dodgy stereotype about older woman) initiative on the part of the Remain camp, but for the most part women are treated like B - list players who were only invited to the EU Referendum party once the A-list invitations were sent out.

I expected to sit in the Soho Theatre fuming, forced to watch the Conservative Party traduced by a left wing playwright full of bile in a tiresome re-hash of old stereotypes.

With 19 % of the construction workforce set to retire in the next five to ten years, the report finds that employers need to overcome stereotypes and repurpose, where necessary, job descriptions to attract and, most importantly, retain older workers.

Of the many negative stereotypes that exist about older adults, the most common is that they are forgetful, senile and prone to so - called «senior moments.»

The authors of When I'm 64 write: «There is ample evidence to suggest that negative expectations and stereotypes about the competence of older adults pervade Western culture.»

Ageist stereotypes fluctuated with the ages of the youths studied, with 7 - to 9 - year - olds expressing the most prejudice and 10 - to 12 - year - olds expressing the least, the study found.

Old textbook stereotypes of mitochondria as tidy, self - contained capsules have faded away as modern imaging techniques show them routinely fusing into tubes and branches.