Stereotypes

One thing that really gets on my nerves are stereotypes. I think I defy most if not all of them that relate to me to be honest. Stereotypes judge people before they know them. One phrase can't define a world of people its just plain stupid! Here's a few I defy......atleast I think I do.

"Only guys should play games past childhood" - emmm, NO! I don't understand the difference between guys and girls here. Girls can play games too. I may not jump into Xbox Live games shouting down a headset but I do play games too and see no reason why I shouldn't.

"Shooting/Horror/Action/Insert genre games are just for guys to play"
"Girls just play stupid games like Nintendogs and Animal Crossing"
"Girls are crap at playing games"
- Personally I have heard all these and I defy them all. While i'm not obsessed with those kinds of games I do infact enjoy them. I play pretty much every genre of game and I may not be the best at playing them I'm also not the worst either.

"Games are for children only" - No, no they aren't. Yes you are free to have your opinion on this but I don't see why the audience of games should be limited. Like movies, games are interactive media that tell a story via video, graphics, cgi and sound. Playing games makes the story come more alive than a movie and is so much more interesting.  There are games for children, games for adults and games for everyone else too. There are no limitations at all. Hundreds of people work together to develop the games and some pretty intricate stories can be told. Stories that are infact as fleshed out and deep as many novels.

"People are fat because they eat too much and don't exercise" - This one is very personal to me and annoys me like no other. In terms of exercise I mightn't do much noteworthy now, I actually used to be a very sporty child who partaken in 3 sports pretty regularly including after school. I also walked over 2 miles everyday to get to school and back and ate healthier than most people my age.
In terms of eating I would be the opposite. Without getting into too much detail, what I would eat in a day or sometimes in a few days is actually considered the level of anorexic intake. I don't stuff my face constantly like many would think nor do I constantly lie on my ass. While I agree that sometimes that stereotype is true it isn't always and big people shouldn't be judged the way they are.

"Only guys do Computing Courses" - While the intake of Computing related courses are male dominated the number of girls are increasing. Nuff said I do Computer Science.

"Girl's are stupid at Computer Science" - Just UUUGGGHHH! This one frustrates me to no end. Its just plain sexist. In secondary school and upper sixth I maintained my position as top of ICT. Now i'm doing my course, I would be considered to be in the top end of people in it. I have no idea where I stand in rank but i'm up there somewhere. Infact, some of the guys on that course are so clueless. I know of 4 guys atleast who have failed atleast one first year module in January. My group project further advanced my view with 3 out of 5 people in it taking my work and claiming it as their own or plagiarising it. It's a complete joke!

"If you repeat the year you were stupid or lazy" - No, no i wasn't. Between my mums illness, death and  a car accident, I simply wasn't in school enough to learn the content for my exams. I was only able to take 4/8 exams in Summer, it was impossible for me to continue onto the next year. Out of the 4 exams I did one of them I had to teach myself completely from scratch in the space of a few weeks (may I mention that it was also AS Physics and also that I got third in my class regardless?). I got stick off a few people for repeating the year who will remain unnamed but yeah.....I had my reasons.

"Anime is childish!" - While anime is cartoon animation, the stories they tell are so much more mature than what is told here. It isn't childish in any respect.

"You are being quiet, you mustn't like me" - In general I am a quiet person and if I don't know you will I will act very awkward. I'll probably stare at the wall, ground or into space. I'll not speak much and may look intimidated and uncomfortable. None of that behaviour is because I don't like you, its simply one of my flaws making it hard for me to know what to say to people. The odds are I actually do like you but I don't know how to speak to you yet.