{"id":31,"date":"2009-06-17T07:57:35","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T07:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/new-age-stereotypes\/"},"modified":"2009-06-17T07:57:35","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T07:57:35","slug":"new-age-stereotypes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/new-age-stereotypes\/","title":{"rendered":"New age stereotypes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I met this acquaintance the other day. The easiest place to meet is a Cafe Coffee Day, right? So, we meet there. And the moment we are done with the pleasantries, he says, &quot;Let&#8217;s get out of this place. I hate CCDs.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>I instantly liked him. I&#8217;m okay with CCDs, in fact their Iced Eskimo is my favorite cold coffee. But, knowing very little about this guy, I liked him. Just because he doesn&#8217;t like a particular cafe chain? What does that say about the person he is? No non-sense? Closer to earth. Doesn&#8217;t make people who enjoy CCD farther from earth, but makes the non-CCDites closer to earth.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;People who don&#8217;t like CCD&quot; = good -&gt; did I just form the latest stereotype? And here I am, taking pseudo-pride in making opinions of people independent of the stereotype associated with them based on caste, region, religion, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Made me wonder about what other stereotypes I have hidden within &#8211; positive or negative. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Whether or not they go out in public with oiled hair?<\/li>\n<li>Does she wear georgette salwar suits with &quot;bling&quot; embroidery work? <\/li>\n<li>The colors of lipstick she prefers.<\/li>\n<li>Stubble or no stubble and how he carries it?<\/li>\n<li>A statement like, &quot;I shop only in South Bombay.&quot;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Geez&#8230;there&#8217;s a whole lot&#8230;not good, not good.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have such filters too? What are they?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met this acquaintance the other day. The easiest place to meet is a Cafe Coffee Day, right? So, we meet there. And the moment we are done with the pleasantries, he says, &quot;Let&#8217;s get out of this place. I hate CCDs.&quot; I instantly liked him. I&#8217;m okay with CCDs, in fact their Iced Eskimo&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/new-age-stereotypes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;New age stereotypes&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}