Quotes About Stereotypes

There is one group that is more consistently portrayed as ineffectual, as unvirtuous, as incompetent, as objects of fun, and that is white working class guys.

Female physicists, astronomers and mathematicians are up against more than 2,000 years of convention that has long portrayed these fields as inherently male.

We have built our identities in many respects based on the guilt-ridden stories we have been told about our creation. For women, it is a very damning knowledge to be portrayed as curious and careless seductresses.

Growing up, it was hard to associate with some of the women who were being portrayed in the media.

I feel like Africans are too often portrayed as people on the National Geographic channel: the image is of an African man in a loincloth chasing a gazelle. It's not intentionally racist; I wouldn't call it racist at all. It's a lack of understanding another culture.

Blacks on prime-time TV are only portrayed as comedians - and often in no better a light than 'Amos & Andy.'

I think lot of Muslims have gotten fatigued by the way Muslim characters, even 'positive' ones, are portrayed in the media.

Black and awkward is the worst, because black people are stereotyped as being anything but awkward in mainstream media... Black people are always portrayed to be cool or overly dramatic, anything but awkward.

Certainly, living in the U.S., as I have for over two decades, you see how Asians are portrayed in the media... I didn't see myself represented, you know, when I used to look at ads on TV.

Funny enough though, despite what Donald Trump has to say and the way African-American people are portrayed so often in media, African-American people can have a leaning to be very conservative.

I think, in the media, Christians are the butt of every joke, or they are portrayed running around condemning everyone to Hell.

There have been a lot of things where communities haven't been portrayed in a positive light, and even when we were doing 'Youngers' in Peckham, people were cautious about what we were filming.

I was frustrated in general with the way women are always portrayed. And it's always through a man's eyes.

I never want to make any characters one-dimensional, especially as women can often be portrayed as the dark one or the evil one.

The characters I've always been drawn to are real and flawed. That's not how women have always been portrayed.

If you see black people being portrayed in this one way well then, when you see a black person in real life, you're going to carry some of that way of thinking with you.

I'm getting really fed up with the way that girls and women get portrayed a lot of the time.

We shouldn't expect women to have it all and manage it all and I certainly don't want to be portrayed in that way - I think it's a very negative message to send women.

The Muslim world is portrayed as a monolith that is consistently scary and negative, and as much as you can be an open-minded person, if the only diet of information you get is scary images of men in beards, that starts to play on you. But you come to find out that the Muslim world is not a monolith.

Every time I do something, I think, 'Am I portraying Asian people in the way I want to be portrayed?'

I don't think people should be afraid of portraying people with accents, especially Asian accents.

Dads have been increasingly hands-on for quite a while. And yet, we still insist on portraying dads as bumbling idiots.

For a long time, with a lot of women of the trans experience on television, people have only got to see one aspect of their life. With 'Pose,' it's broadened the scale.

I don't think you can get any more working class than me. Everyone seems posh to me.