Stereotypes: She's A Dumb Girl

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We’ve all heard those comments… “She’s a dumb blond.”
“I bet he’s going to be fat and live in a basement in his mom’s house when he’s in his
20’s.”
“Look I bet he knows where the best taco place is.” “I bet she’s smart.” They are all based on certain characteristics people have. These kinds of comments are called stereotypes.
Stereotypes are “ False assumptions that many people have about others or different things with certain characteristics.” There are stereotypes about almost everything. For example, your gender, race, religion, and even how you look.
There are plenty of stereotypes people say about women. I can list about fifty of them but I’m only going to focus on a few.
A couple of stereotypes about females are that “they

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