Ryan McAvoy said:

Warbler said:

Ryan McAvoy said:

and there is a seperate bigotted view point that gay men are "weirdos". The dictionary definition of 'stereotype' is "a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image". The former is just such an oversimplfication, the latter is just plain wrong.

it is both bogotted and a sterotype.

Read the dictionary definition I provided again. Is it an "oversimplification" to label them "weirdos" or is it an opinion? If it is an "oversimplification" as you say, then please elaborate with the more complex version of your statement.

RicOlie_2 said:

Just because it's a stereotype, Ryan, doesn't mean everyone (or even the majority) has to hold it.

Again, read the dictionary definition I provided again. It says a stereotype is an "oversimplification" that is "widely" held.

But this is getting way off topic when all somebody said was the nice positive thing that the dudes skating commentary was very informative. Shame that such a postive statement has to descend so quickly into negativity.

If Puggo can give his opinion about Johnny Weir, I can give mine.

Here is Wikipedia's diffinition of steorotype:

A stereotype is a thought that may be adopted about specific types of individuals or certain ways of doing things.^[1] These thoughts or beliefs may or may not accurately reflect reality