Why are minorities and gays put into the same category?

I can't find too much fault with it - after all, the person is just being themselves. It would be rather hypocritical for me to get upset with them. I just know that most of the stereotypes are just that - stereotypes, that apply to extremely few people, and not me.

I worked with a gay person and he really disliked "les folles" (not sure how to say in English). The gay people who dress in drag and go into parades and squirt water pistols and all that. He was just an ordinary guy who didn`t flaunt who he was, and thought people who did were ridiculous.

I really don't care what people do.

Race? I've never heard them referred to as a race?

If you are a majority, do you get upset with another majority or gay who lives his/her life and behaves in a way that only reinforces a negative stereotype about that race?

Quite simply, no. How other minorites live their lives is none of my business. I am, however, bothered when people in my OWN minority group do things that are negative, in general. For example, when I hear of "gang-related" Asian crimes in the news, I get angry at the stupid Asian delinquents who give law-abiding, successful Asians (and these are the majority) a bad name. However, I am not bothered by trivial negative (if you can call it negative) stereotypes perpetuated by members of my group (e.g., speaking Chinese or Japanese in a loud and animated, "musical" way). As a matter of fact, I'd wish they do more of that. If other people don't like it, that's their problem. Excellent question, man's man. :)

Oh yes. <rant> We have enough problems as it is. We do NOT need any more. For example, if a Gadje steals something, it is the onus of that ONE Gadje. If ONE of us steals something, we ALL suffer due to the stereotype. I do not steal. However, I often am denied jobs because of the stereotype just because of the word "Gypsy", have been fired from a job within a day of my boss finding out "what" I am (I was testing this very theory by not telling during the interview and it was true), I am watched in stores, I am accused on the job if anything vanishes, etc. And, Gadje are doing crimes and/or running scams claiming to be "gypsies" (fortune telling scams, distraction burglaries, roofing scams, and the like). Despite this being cleared up at the police stations sometimes (that is if the police give enough of a sh*t to do so), the reports of escalating "gypsy crime" continue to grow. MOST of it is done by GADJE. That the slang term "I was gypped" ("I was ripped off/scammed") exists shows the extent of the problem. </rant> *ahem* That rant could have gone on for another two feet as I added in the rest of the negative stereotypes but I think that one should get it across. :P I also could not care less about the minor negative stereotypes. It is the ones that cause direct damage to us that bother me.

this is a wonderful question. i'm bisexual and no i don't get mad at bisexuals who engage in stereotypical behavior. a stereotype is a moron's attempt to order his world. if someone says that all of this group or that group behave in any manner. than that person is ignoring reality. how is that the fault of the object of the stereotype.

Well, not really because I do not consider the negative stereotypes put on the Japanese are negative. But I do get a little annoyed when Asians in general are stereotyped - like Asians are all clumped together - if one Asian does something wrong, I'm supposed to feel something ... but I don't.

I am a minority where I live. I am one of few Scottish people living in this English town. Anyway, to answer the question - NO, I do not get annoyed when the behaviours, or misbehaviours of other Scots is used to reinforce the negative stereotypes of bigots who want to find ANY EXCUSE to negatively paint Scots. I get more annoyed with those who make facile stereotypes.

i'm not either minority or gay but i have this to say... my parents are racist. they talk bad about black and hispanic people all the time. i am always trying to defend them, but it makes it so much harder when every day at school, walking down the hall, i see black people yelling, talking iliterately, stealing, pushing white people... it's very discouraging. i'm not making ANY judgements on anyone, but i'm proposing this... if you don't want to be called slandering words or if you're tired of stereotypes...act opposite of that! don't play it up! that only makes it easier for those who are bringing you down.

I don't get upset with a minority who behaves in unethical manners-those are his/her choice and that has nothing to do with me. I don't get upset also because I'm very aware that there are members of the "majority" who behave just as bad or worse than a member of a minority group. I only get upset with those members of the majority quick to point finger and stereotype minorities as if their group were "clean and innocent". Instead of asking those questions I believe you should start for asking yourself: How, who, when and why those stereotypes started?. Why should I be upset with a minority because a member of a majority took upon himself/herself to stereotype others?. The stereotypes against Black people, for example, started with the first ship loaded with slaves kidnapped from their homeland. The stereotypes started when some whites took upon themeselves to classified Blacks as 3/5 of a human. The stereotypes started when a white man claimed: "Black people have no rights the white men is bound to respect". Stereotype started when a group of white scientists used black men to experiment with the syphilis disease in what then became known as the "Tuskigee Experiment"; and I could go on and on. You seem to be--whatever your reasons are--very reluctant to concede that, taking into consideration all these well-known facts, the question can be asked the other way around. And then you don't accept my question and go out of your way to try to stablish your argument as avalid one. And yes, for your information, there's a great share of stereotypes about white people, unless you're too naive to realize that. You did--as you pointed out--"get irritated" because I did reverse your own question as though your ethnic group were morally superior and thus exempt from being asked the same question. In case you did miss my point, I was presenting a mirrow--in allegorical sense--for you to see the reflection of your group in it and telling you that you're not in any higher moral position to ask such a question which in iteslf denotes certain air of a conceitedness.