do you concider yourself to be a specific stereotype?

[Tenshi no Ai]

Just an interesting topic I thought I wanted to make, after my one friend said he wanted to randomly go to school and make fun of stereotypes and dress up all weird with emo pants and so forth :/

I honestly can't fit myself into any specific group. I'm just whatever I want to be whenever :/ I can play Final Fantasy and watch anime and call myself a nerd if I want (no offence to people on the board of course,^^ but ya know) or dress up in a black shirt and holed belt and stuff and go to a punk concert, or even go to college wearing... well, what the college people wear, bascially!

I think people try to hard nowadays to actually try and fit in a specific group. Feels like only yesterday "emo" was a word that I just heard about and was only popular in America, and now I see lots of guys with black hair, thick, dark glasses, and stretchers in their ears.

So, just curious if you actually concider yourself to be some specific (or a slight mixure of) punk, goth, emo, etc. etc. etc. And well, thoughts on the whole thing.

[inkjet1987]

The only thing I call myself is a music nerd. I don't like generalized looks or anything of that sort. I dress how I like and whatever.

[Lochaber Axe]

What kind of sterotype am I? The "Lochaber Axe" type...

I have no need or wanting to be someone else. Let this world try to categorize and imitate me; I will just laugh as I find the truth and they continue to lie to themselves.

[Myoti]

I am Myoti. Nothing more, nothing less (well, maybe 'more'...).

[Mr. SmartyPants]

I am very odd. I'm not like most asians, I love anime more than many of my asian people I know. I love techno and trance. I hang out with mainly caucasian friends (they are the real trustworthy friends who are Christian as well) and I like so many things nobody else really likes, such as orchestrated music, soundtracks, etc.

I'm my own XD

[Puritan]

Me, a stereotype? Not really one you could fit me into. This last summer, however, a secretary at the lab I was working at identified me as "definately a researcher" when I was mildly surprised when I recieved my monthly paycheck. I am not really absent minded, but when I start to work on interesting things I tend to loose focus of the world around me. However, my tastes are too diverse to really put me into any cliched group.

[Warrior 4 Jesus]

I'm unique. I'm just me. I don't try to be anything else. If the clothes/look is comfy - all good.

[Ingemar]

I view myself as several overlapping stereotypes:

Nerd/Class Clown/Goody-Two Shoes

[Tenshi no Ai]

One little tidbit to add: so my friends and I had to make a movie on stereotyping in high school. It was pretty fun^^
We had:
-Americans vs. Canadians (so talks on hockey vs. baseball etc.)
-Rednecks (my friend lived out the creek so there was a tracker and chicken coop)
-twinks (my 2 twinkie friends talking about boys... :/)
-nerd (I lost my dignity that day and TOTALLY dressed up and all >_<)
-"churchy" (got my youth friends together at church and used hymm books to preach... having them get tackled. Oh the fun!)

Yeah it was overly emphasized but so fun to make and even now people love watching it!

[edendreams]

I am a nerd. in lingo and in games but y'know I'm wild and weird I'm goffy but modest and kind. anyone in my opinions tha tries to be a certain something is taking them farther from what they should focus on.

[Cap'n Nick]

I'd say I'm the stereotypical forum-going anime fan in that I balk at the idea of being stereotyped.

Actually, I do fit the bill for the typical Lutheran seminarian, that is, tall, rough-shaven Caucasian male with a penchant for pentasyllabics. Once you've been around them you can pick them out of a crowd.

[Gypsy]

Wow, you'd think fitting into a stereotype was a disease or something. It's not that scary. ^^; Myself, I'm safely in the non-preppy casual slot.

[Yojimbo]

I honestly can't put myself in any stereotypical group. Clothingwise my style is pretty normal. I dress nicely but its nothing you could hardly label "punk", "metro", or "prep." Both my ears are pierced but I hate those lego looking gauges and huge diamonds, so I just have normal rings with balls on them. My hair is short and pretty clean cut so nothing there that can really put me in anything. I like anime, videogames, movies, and music alot so I could be called a nerd in those areas especially movies, music, and videogames. I'm a little dorky sometiems especially in my humor and whatnot. But really I don't see myself as fitting in anything and I'm pretty happy with that. The minute you're trying to fit into some stereotype like that you know thats when you need to take a serious look at yourself.

[Stephen]

I don't really know what I am anymore. I like to blend everything I like...so probably freakish or weird lol. Who knows. I am waiting for someone thats like 13 to come in here and yell that lables suck. We all get lables. Its part of life on this globe. As Gypsy said, its not really a bad thing.

[mai]

I don't think I'm extreme enough to have a label, as far as clothing goes.
I'm shy and like to read but I also like to wear interesting clothes, right now I'm leaning more toward goth and black things. A year ago I got my hair cut about an inch long and spiked it, now it's shoulder length and I've developed a passion for lace. Any thing that’s different interests me, whether it be clothing or music.

[bigsleepj]

I am simply (or complexly) myself - that is all. I'm rather a gaggle of stereotypes rather than a single one, and I sort of prefer it that way.

[Warrior4Christ]

I'm the "smart guy that you go to when you want answers" type.

[Kaligraphic]

I'm the incredibly powerful type who can't unlock his power until he goes on a journey of self-discovery, dealing with a traumatic past event that is somehow linked to the present fate of the world, and which will turn out to reveal the secret to saving the day, even though I won't realize it until the nick of time.

Also, I'm the guy with nigh-perfect English, trivia coming out the ears, and a randomly changing speech profile. (seriously, I change accents, vocabulary, preferred sentence structures, it's kind of weird.)

[chibiphonebooth]

i wear whatever i want to wear.

i guess you could try and classify me in the sort of... artsy type style, i like colors... and clothing with designs on them. sometimes i design my own clothes...

i like jewlery... i have a nose piercing, and 3 piercings in each ear.. so yeah. i like to dye my hair many colors and stuff. its cut short... and yeah.

i like anime and especially manga, videogames, drawing, english.. etc. lol. and im very very very easily amused. XD

i dont classify myself under anything.. but i GUESS you could call me artsy/punkyish....? <.<;;

i dont know. ^^;;

[hawaiishirtguy]

Smart-guy bookworm redneck with a hint of surfer dude and "don't care" attitude. Hoorah!

[VashTheStampede]

lol, well people have said that I'm Chinese and smart =P haha

[Raiden no Kishi]

Labels suck!!!!!!111oneoneoneone.

They may be a part of life, but that doesn't mean you have to like them.

The one thing that bothers me more than stereotypes is people that deserve them.

.rai//

[Cap'n Nick]

I once had a conversation that went something like this:

"You know what, Nick? You're really predictable."
"No I'm not!"
"I knew you'd say that."

I think that's the reason people don't want to be stereotyped. No one wants to be seen as simple or predictable, and when someone puts a label on you, that's what it feels like.

[Scribs]

I am a relatively steriotypical Wasp. I am White, Decended from an Englishman. I am a Protestant, Calvinist specificaly. I am a Conservative. I am from the East Coast. The only thing that steriotypical Wasps have that I dont is money (and racial prejudice).

[Yumie]

I can't really think of any specific stereotype that I could be squashed into-- I mean, I'm a southerner with an accent that many mistake to be northern (despite the fact that I do use the word "y'all" ); I make good grades but only because I work my butt off to understand things that don't really come naturally to me; I'm not blond. . .

I guess the closest things to a stereotype I'd fit in is the "conservative" stereotype that most people put on Christians-- I dress modestly, I'm careful about what I watch and listen to, and I don't date.

[livewire]

I am just Beth...
plain and simple....
nah, really, I've been called a nerd because I nearly always have a book in my hand....
I like to write poetry and short stories...
talk too much...blah, blah, blah...
I have also been told I am "too nice" whatever THAT means! lol
but, I don't think I can really be stereotyped.
I am just me.

[EricTheFred]

If I taught college instead of working in industry, I'd be the perfect middle-aged absent-minded professor. Shave only about twice a week, forget to comb, wear whatever's comfortable (sweaters or flannel shirts, khaki pants), lose track of what point I was making in the middle of the sentence... Unfortunately, I'm in industry (as an electrical engineer) so I'm supposed to be wearing a white shirt with a pocket protector, and tape on my glasses.
Notably, out of about a hundred engineers here, none actually look like that. (Well, there are couple that come close, if you forget about the pocket protector.)

[Rogie]

Hmm... I guess I'm the "silent" type, in that I'm usually quiet in most situations, but when I know you're gonna laugh... I'm gonna do crazy, silly things. A lot of people think that once I start acting like this around them, it's just because they've "corrupted" me (although I'm doing nothing "corruptible"), when in all honesty, I sorta get a feel for what type of humor people around me like and play off of that.

So I'm the quiet, funny guy. Clothing-wise, I dress conservatively with a little bit of "preppy" here and there.

[Tarnish]

I don't think I fit into any usual stereotype...I'm too normal to be a nerd, I'm too happy to be a goth, and I'm too polite to be a punk.
Hm...>__>

[Tommy]

I wouldn`t label myself.

If there is a perfect line in between jock and nerd, I`ll take it.