I don't really get how "positive racism" is supposed to be bad, like when I was growing up in an intensely patriarchal society i would have chopped off all my uncut braided hair to hear people reinforcing cool stereotypes about women
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A) Can be hard for people who don't live up to that stereotype
B) Can lead to pigeon-holing, where people denied the opportunity to do other things outside those stereotypes
C) Can lead to model minority status where they're used as an example against other minorities
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I think largely because it suggests that people in that group are doing something wrong if they don't live up to those stereotypes.
It's like getting typecast. You could be getting typecast as the suave & amazing hero, but that can still suck if you want to do other roles
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you mean like model minority stuff? it’s a stages of development thing, I think. Like first one wants any scrap of recognition one can get, however bad, however they get it. once they have some and they get used to it then they start demanding nuance. Which is progress imo
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What about "positive" stereotypes about how women are more gentle / sensitive / pure, how we're better at caregiving, how valuable we are because we can give birth and men can't...?
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My general take is that people who want less positive attention already have quite a bit to begin with, so their problems become amplified compared to the relatively connectionless people who want more, and this leads to a bias when estimating the amount people want on average.
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It's bad to believe false things, and I think the idea is that "positive racism" involves believing false things.
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Because positive stereotyping subtly trains your brain to accept negative stereotypes too.
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People making unwarranted assumptions about you is annoying even if those assumption are true. Also makes you wonder if they believe all the negative stereotypes about you as well...
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