Old ladies with cats become joggers with a pocket full of Viagra(tm)

Posted by Lewis May 09, 2003In reply to Brave boys, shy girls, men fixing roofs, women baking cookies, God, witches, owls, heathens, birthday cake, and religious fanatics posted by Word Camel on May 03, 2003

All of these have been banned from American text books

Article in the newspapers during the last week - I was quite disgusted. Elderly people in particular DO have cats, and as women live longer than men it is statistically likely that an old lady may well have a cat - I have known lots of people that fit that stereotype. I know rather fewer who go jogging - taking into account waiting lists for hip replacement operations...

These "unacceptable" Stereotypes may actually be representative of large numbers of real people. I imagine that these fiction-fascists would hate Karl Jung for his Archetypes.

OK - so have positive images of people and accept that some people defy convention, but let's not pretend that some stereotypes are not frequently encountered.

They'll be saying that divorced single-parents have an easy time combining work and home next...