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

Yes you can and I never said you couldn't, I just pointed out that a personal opinion isn't a "Stereotype".

If Puggo had said "That really proves the sterotype that all gay people are good sports commentators" then I'd have pointed out that it wasn't ;-)

Warbler said: 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

Well then Wikipedia is wrong, as is its wont. The statement "may or may not accurately reflect reality" should be "does not accurately reflect reality", that is one of the things that defines a stereotype. It's a broad generalisation that distorts the truth and is therefore inherently false.

Let me give an example of a stereotype and since I'm from the UK... a stereotype would be that "British food is terrible". The food in tourist traps in London is awful which I'm sure is where that misconception arrises. Infact the UK has more Michelin restaurants than the US despite the US being a vastly more populous country. But your statement would have been akin to "British food is terrible because it comes from Mars". The former is a stereotype the later is just some crazy nonsense (That you are free to believe if you want to).