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Originally Posted by phrontist
Okay, this is a pet peeve of mine. If your motivation for doing something is "to break stereotypes" you are defining your actions in the context of a broken system and playing into the hands of the "adversary", be it the male patriarchy, the vast right-wing conspiracy, or the RIAA.
Feminists often get a bad rap for this, modeling their lives around the inverse of stereotypes, which is a very low form of protest, as they are still allowing themselves to be controlled by the stereotype. Had the stereotype been otherwise, they would be acting differently, and thus are not thinking for themselves at all, but rather acting on a knee-jerk contrarian sentiment. Are you rebelling for the sake of rebelling? Is this really rebellion at all?
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I'm sorry that you misunderstood my intention completely. This has nothing to do with rebellion or "breaking the stereotypes" as the DRIVING FORCE. At our school, I have been called a disgrace to girls mearly because I was in robotics/programming--hence my comment for "breaking the stereotypes". If it comes off as COMPLETELY trying to rebel or demolish the former idea, I apologize. If you need clarification, read the comment posted by my dear friend ArmoredFairy698. Since the original post was that the all-girls team was hearing of girls as cheerleaders and non-relavant positions to robotics--hence the word STEREOTYPE--I was slightly taken-a-back at the statement. I am sorry that my message was not clear enough, offended you, gave you a misudnerstanding or played off your pet-peeve. That was not my intention. Again, I urge you to read ArmoredFairy698's post. It may be clearer for you--since it is worded differently. I, again, apologize.