Sentences with phrase «old stereotypes about»

Forget all of the old stereotypes about American housing — starting with the notion that only families with a mom, a dad, and 2.2 kids buy homes.

The editor of Working Mother magazine says in the press release that she was «pleasantly surprised» that the old stereotypes about law firms were wrong.

Or it can be less tangible — challenging old stereotypes about what a child with a disability has to offer the world.

Worse still is an American exchange student, Tracy (Greta Gerwig), with a crush on Atari, and who leads a singlehanded campaign to turn the tide of public opinion against Mayor Kobayashi, thus reifying old stereotypes about Japanese passivity.

Worse, Ready Player One reinforces hoary old stereotypes about nerds and fandom cultures, including the centering of white males whose love of stuff coincides with being socially maladroit.

They tend to attract a livelier crowd than sites that try to cater to old stereotypes about people over 50.

For example, though African Americans and women are classically Other, Herman Cain and Sarah Palin are not and are fair game for even the old stereotypes about these groups.

In the age - old stereotypes about the business world, competition is always cutthroat, corners exist to be cut, companies are eternally at war with one another, and the bottom line is all that matters.

That old stereotype about Osborne being a supremely political chancellor is entirely correct.

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The tech CEOs you read about then didn't fit the old stereotypes.

It's a hoary old stereotype that women take longer to get ready than men, but there are several reasons it might be true that have nothing to do with outmoded jokes about complicated hair care or excessive vanity.

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

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.

To millennials, both men and women, old ideas about gender stereotypes are necessarily giving way to the reality that mom going to work isn't some Mr. Mom hijinks — it's reality, and modern families and modern workplaces are gonna have to adjust.

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.

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.

«There is such a negative stereotype about older adults» cognitive abilities but our findings indicate that reality may not be as bleak as the stereotype implies.»

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.»

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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.»

Scan results were then paired against the views each participant had offered about a quarter - century earlier to 16 age stereotypes, such as «old people are absent - minded.»

According to Penn and Teller, America's seniors are stripped of their dignity thanks to ongoing stereotypes about old people.

Lelio knew transgender women in Berlin, his current home, but he wanted to educate himself about what the experience was like in Latin America, hoping to look at the broad stereotypes about the community he'd absorbed from old movies and then strip them away.

During the party, each guest makes typical stereotype comments to Chris such as, «Tiger Woods is the greatest golfer» and an older, thirsty woman asks «is it true what they say about black men in the bedroom?»

Also, some of the same old tired in - jokes and stereotypes about Hollywood abound.

Barry (Tony Goldwyn) is the boss, an obviously mercenary snake who dresses his selfishness up in doublespeak about «the good of the team,» while a variety of supporting characters serve to furnish the various stereotypes that are often required of this sort of narrative (wacky gay guy, stoner, quietly desperate old maid, and so on).

Sixteen - year - old Brianisha Frith, for instance, argued that young Teach for America instructors have brought much - needed energy to the city's schools, while her classmate Kenyatta Collins, also 16, wrote that «some students feel like the teachers don't know much about us apart from stereotypes.»

Ok, so the movie «Fargo» turned 22 years old this week, but, so, ya know... despite widely held stereotypes about the state of Minnesota and its dialect made famous by... Read more

And that's what troubles me about the segment: it illustrates so clearly how OK it still is (judging, if not by the segment itself, then by the audience's laughter) to humiliate Asian Americans — even to their faces — with old stereotypes.»

It's usually not that Manager X doesn't want any 50 year - olds in his company — it's abut the fact that Manager X has a bunch of stereotypes in his head about what being 50 means and it's those stereotypes he wants to avoid.

Stereotypes about young people and older Australians are a major factor behind age discrimination.