"Typical American woman"

[peacetraveler22]

I don't know how foreigners perceive the "typical American woman." However, three times this week, I have been called this.

Stereotypes - they are very damaging in many cases, and must be quashed. We are all influenced by stereotypes on some level, but I really try to erase them from memory when traveling, forming impressions based only on pure experience. Most recently, I can say it about Georgia - where everyone warned me about all kinds of things, when in reality I encountered almost none of the horrors mentioned. In the end, we are responsible for the company we keep. You have the choice to surround yourself with good, positive and uplifting...or, you can run wild with the animals in the zoo.

Most people using this phrase - "typical American woman" have never even met, or had any real experience with an American woman. Therein lies the problem...that is all I really want to say for today. :)

Comments

[maryasha-b.livejournal.com]

Oh, what happened? Why were you called "typical American women"? What kind of conversation or argument you were having?

My only stereotype about American women (or rather how they are different from Russian women) is that they are very confident whatever they do... Which is a good thing)

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

Mostly I'm called this when I reject virtual sex games from male readers - yes, they sometimes send such messages to an old lady like me. :)) On the one hand, they seem to think all American women are whores, on the other when you behave in a modest way, you're still called a "typical American woman." It is meant as an insult, at least when it is said to me in most cases.

[naysayer15.livejournal.com]

haha Makos didn`t get his small Jewish dick virtually wet?)

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

Don't be so vulgar...

[naysayer15.livejournal.com]

women love vulgarity :)