“I don't really like stereotypes, or any sort of 'boxing' of women, men, or people, in general. Boxing people in, labeling, it's all just really unnecessary. Women are so many things. Men are so many things. People are so many things.”— Ariana Grande, allure.com
“What I can't figure out, is why so many good-looking women hang around baseball and basketball. Is it because, you know, people always say that, like, black guys have big dicks?”— Tiger Woods, gq.com
“The world and our perceptions have changed a lot, even since the '70s, but there are lingering stereotypes. If you ask an 11-year-old to draw a scientist, she's likely to draw a geeky guy with a pocket protector. That's just not an image an 11-year-old girl aspires to. As she looks on the Web, she s…”— Sally Ride, 30670749.weebly.com
“A character that scares you is worth exploring. Yet if you breathe life into a character and it comes to you too easily—say you’re writing from the viewpoint of a black man in America and you’re not one? Think hard about where your inspiration is coming from. Are you writing stereotypes? Tropes? Are…”— Mary H.K. Choi, amazon.com
“Thanks to you, I now have an unemployed father! You trying to make a stereotype out of me? Did you even vote for Obama?”— Tina Fey, Tracy Jordan, Tracy Morgan, imdb.com
“He looked like a vampire. You know with the fangs and the slicked back hair and the fancy cape and the little medallion thing on the ribbon.”— Jeremy Carver, Ben Edlund, Ed Brewer, Michael Eklund, imdb.com
“There are no games. It’s true what they say about lesbians: you meet and then the next day you move in together.”— Tila Tequila, foxnews.com
“I am not gay. I am, however, thin, single, and neat. Sometimes when someone is thin, single, and neat people assume they are gay because that is a stereotype. They normally don't think of gay people as fat, sloppy, and married. Although I'm sure there are, I don't want to perpetuate the stereotype.…”— Larry Charles, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com
“The way Lena Dunham talks about black men is peak white entitlement... Dunham is entitled to her own perspective and story, but not to the minds and thoughts of the black men around her.”— Zeba Blay, huffingtonpost.com
“Not only were the four main characters white, but so were nearly all of the show’s supporting characters. When people of color did emerge in the background, they were treated as flat stereotypes. And Dunham’s writers’ room was mostly white, meaning that she largely wasn’t hiring people who did have…”— Constance Grady, vox.com
“Terry Crews, an African American actor, tweeted his degrading experience with an Hollywood exec in front of his wife. Crews wanted to react and defend himself against the harassment however due to unfair, racial biases he was afraid of getting painted as the ‘aggressive black man’ and jeopardizing h…”— Amelia (Mia) Smalls, medium.com
“Perhaps the place to start looking for a credibility gap is not in the offices of the government in Washington but in the studios of the networks in New York. Television may have destroyed the old stereotypes, but has it not created new ones in their places?”— Spiro Agnew, books.google.com
“I think my biggest ‘huh’ moment with respect to gender roles is when it was pointed out to me that your typical ‘geek’ is just as hypermasculine as your typical ‘jock’ when you look at it from the right angle. As male geeks, a great deal of our identity is built on the notion that male geeks are, in…”— David J Prokopetz, prokopetz.tumblr.com
“Some women don’t need a deep spiritual connection in order to enjoy carnal pursuits and some men do; the old stereotypes aren’t useful in navigating your own needs, and breaking anachronistic expectations through experience could lead you to a better understanding of your own sexuality.”— Monica Shores, alternet.org
“Forcing people to adhere to outmoded, rigid notions of identity isn’t good for anybody—men, women, gay, straight, transgender, or otherwise. These stereotypes limit our ability to simply be ourselves.”— Barack Obama, glamour.com
“So we need to break through these limitations. We need to keep changing the attitude that raises our girls to be demure and our boys to be assertive, that criticizes our daughters for speaking out and our sons for shedding a tear. We need to keep changing the attitude that punishes women for their s…”— Barack Obama, glamour.com
“The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, ‘It’s a girl.”— Shirley Chisholm, glamour.com
“In every community, some people will fit every stereotype, and some people will fit no stereotypes, and both are valid representations for that community.”— Tyler Oakley, amazon.com