And I couldn't care much less.

Grabbing some more Fara pr0nz...

oh sh*t! *hits the deck*

"Hey do any of u guys wanna be talkin to a nigga?"
*had spent the last round attempting to be black, complete with retarded freestyle rap*

Oh boy, XBox Live is awesome.

Anonymittity does that to a person, but think about it, you are different from who you really are here too.

All that's required from interacting online is a thought and a word, in real life we have all that along with eye contact, movement, and a larger array of emotions.

So really we're never the same in either place. I do see what you mean by the phrase though.

I will admit what you say is true, and very close to home in many senses, but it also brings up the idea that we are attempting to impress someone or something. If the idea of social conformity is to be blamed for using stereotypes then the idea of a stereotype has been skewed horribly.

What I'm getting at is the usage of a stereotype. A stereotype is used to understand a culture different to our own by using a commonly witnessed practice as a figurehead. Stereotypes are misused in a fashion in which with it we are considered shallow. And yet, we can learn from a stereotype. We can learn just why one man would believe one thing and another man something different. When it's used for comedy, as it is used on XBox Live, then we get the common practice of a stereotype to which its true purpose is skewed. With anonymittity we can get away with more in our attempts to make comedy from a stereotype and comedy of any sort can be entirely misinterpreted and considered as a hostile action. Thus how stereotypes are used today in an entirely different fashion then what they were created to provide.

But yes, stereotypes can be horrible and shallow and I've known the pains of witnessing and being witness to this practice, but without them then man would be confined within his own guilt.

Which is what I was aiming to show. Stereotypes, unfortunately, are mostly used in negative ways and in playing to that stereotype makes you a stereotype in the process. But the ideas of a stereotype were once made to help us understand other cultures not parody it. Give a man worth his salt a detailed analysis of a culture and he'll interpret it in his own fashion, maybe even ask for more details and make the studies for himself to prove it. To some a stereotype is awful, for others it's a start.

The word stereotype is much like the word gay, we consider gay in a negative fashion in either talking of sexual preference or of what we feel is stupid. Same with the word douche. But this may never change now that they've been assimilated into our culture in such a way. Although stereotype wouldn't be consider as obscene in word choice, it's still precieved negatively.

So how would we continue to make mistakes if stereotyping isn't behind the issue? The past. Everything we do is not on a whim or a thought but directly from the action of another. If it's successful we replicate it, if it fails we alter it. It isn't that because one fur thinks this way that they all do. This community consists of manchilds and businessmen (talking from both ends of the possible spectrum), some just here to assist with simple trolling. So perhaps many issues stem on stereotypes, but also on past action. We LEARN from the past, we LEARN from old mistakes, if we were not to learn them nothing would ever change. We can debate on the progress of the world but if we can speak (not literally) as we are now, I'd say that's progress.

What you say is entirely true, when something good is said we're all ears but when the bitter truth comes out we'd rather take time to let it reach its destination. Also, we do indeed learn from those around us.

As for the word "gay", I mean the "word" gay, not the general hatred of those with homosexual practices. Although, given our differences in opinion over stereotypes, I doubt that it will mean much. I just thought that I should clear up what I was intending to present however.

And finally, yes, since we are human we percieve things through our own filter, wishing to learn about something that we never experienced usually for personal means. In the end we do indeed repeat mistakes from the past because we want to experience it for ourselves. As horrid as it sounds, it does sharpen mankind.

This is fun, I hardly ever get to philosophize anymore let alone have someone actually read it. I'm not built for these though so I doubt I can continue for much longer, the lateness in reply probably being a good sign. But it was fun while it lasted, as well as hear another idea on a common issue in society. So thanks for the mini-debate.

Gay means this way to me because I feel as if we should open up our borders and welcome all sorts of word choice rather than close it. I would love to read a book to find the word gay used for it's original sense and not for humor as it usually is when compared. Although really we are only slaves to successful thought patterns, or at the very least the easy ones, this goes along with what you said about the filter of experience.

However, we do directly make the same mistakes again and again, mainly for the sake of the experience. To learn what is right and wrong, what makes man man, and other things that allows us to mature and act as others do.

To be honest I don't know how we would continue this.

Hmm... I don't remember hiding anything, did I miss something?

I'm pretty sure Neko hid it himself. No worries though, go back to your popcorn eating.

Lol, k.