“We’re not all the same!”, the nerds said in unison. “Frank here is into DnD while Bob is only interested in gaming RPGs; Liza doesn’t play computer games and i

“We’re not all the same!”, the nerds said in unison. “Frank here is into DnD while Bob is only interested in gaming RPGs; Liza doesn’t play computer games and is mostly interested in anime and Japanese culture; meanwhile Frank is into hiking, geotagging, and photo editing.” When people see stereotypes or “types”, the point is never—unless they are genuinely denigrating them—that they are completely alien or that whatever institution they belong to is not “made up of humans”.