What are some gender stereotypes ?

No. Yes. Yes (it's the color of the fish, right?) and usually.

I wouldn't however, be able to identify aquamarine. I do know turquoise. It's the color of the rock.

edited 31st Mar '11 3:20:51 PM by MrAHR

I had no idea the color thing was even a stereotype. (I thought identifying all sorts of colors was an aesthete thing, not a "feminine" thing)

—looks up fuschia—

Odd. I always thought it would be darker. And greener.

Pink ain't it?

...I think it's the color I called "pinkie-purple" when I was five...

Yes, it's a type of pink.

I was always able to identify turquoise as being a lighter version of teal.

—looks up teal—

Yeah. That looks like a light turquoise. Don't think I knew it was teal though.

I can never remember what the more specific color terms actually look like (such as the difference between "scarlet" and "crimson") so I tend to use modified forms or compounds of more basic terms.

Well I guess it helped that my first gameboy color was teal...

And Aquamarine is fairly simple to identify, it's that sickly green color that just barely pushes the boundaries of a sky blue

The reds were always a grey area for me, I just know that crimson is darker. Heck if I know what scarlet is.

But we're getting off topic, MOAR STEREOTYPES:

MEN! We like MACHINES! Cars! Power Tools! Trucks! Over Emphasizing with exclamation points! After all, they are mere extensions of our phalli!

edited 31st Mar '11 3:36:25 PM by MousaThe14

Don't forget Mecha! But girls hate those, along with action scenes.

Nice, very nice.

Comedy- Women aren't funny. All they ever talk about is things going into or coming out of their vaginas.

Re: Color Randall Munroe of XKCD actually did test this after seeing this◊ strip. Here's the actual resuts◊

Continuing with the stereotypes: Women have the ability to divine a person's entire emotional state, and the reasons for it, after a one-second glance at them. Whereas men can't tell that someone is angry until they start smashing things. Similarly, women are more in touch with their own feelings. This is because of deep-seated differences between their brains.

edited 31st Mar '11 3:42:34 PM by EmilyD

I love that man. Hooray for the shatterings of the stereotypez. Mostly.

Double post to say that that is way too small of a sample group.

About the color thing, I have to ask:

Don't boys get Crayola 64 sets? That's where I learned all those esoteric color names. And when I brought mine to school, it was a hit with both sexes, so it can't be that boys don't care about crayons.

The most terrifying day of a man's life is the one in which his significant other makes him stop at the grocery store to pick up some tampons.

I have wondered if the color one might be an actual gender difference. I definitely have a harder time distinguishing colors/matching outfits than my mom does.

I'm shit at it. I am not sure if this is because I never learned or if it's because I'm just fail at being a female though. Could be both.

http://www.justaguything.com/the-man-rules

Stereotypes abound, but it is supposed to be funny.

More for guys (slightly humorous):

1. You can never have too much enough tools.

2. Saying "I don't know" as a response to some technical question is STRICTLY FORBIDDEN - you are expected to know all things mechanical, electrical and pneumatic. If you don't know, you must either infer, induce or go from your gut to best answer the question with anything besides "I don't know".

3. You are not allowed to cry, unless you just watched some classic car get wrecked, or your team just lost the bowl game. For everything else, you are only permitted to look stoic and slightly depressed.

4. You will like sports. You are an abberation of nature if you can't name a player's team, jersey number and some recent stats. See rule 2 if you have to fake it.

5. You are required to know how to change a flat tire, change your own oil in your car, and be capable of performing basic care-care duties. Looking up the procedure is strictly forbidden; your inate mechanical abilities, bequeathed to you via the Y chromosone, is sufficient enough. You can call a buddy for help if you get stymied, though. This doesn't mean that you must change your own oil, only that you are capable of doing so.

6. You are forbidden from owning more than four pairs of shoes.

EDIT: can't spell - it's a guy thing.

edited 31st Mar '11 7:06:38 PM by pvtnum11

Addendum to Meeble's last post— Especially if they're for his daughter.

@ Karalora-Probably part of a greater "Men are simple", "Women are complex" thing.

I got the 64-color box in Elementary - I only used a fraction of it, though, gave the rest to my sister.

Or burned them. Crayons burn pretty good.

Thnks guys This infor will be very useful!

Nobody's mentioned the maps and asking for directions stereotypes yet.

I honestly don't understand how men can find it easier to read maps without them turning around. I'm going forward; it's easier to navigate if the virtual me on the map is also travelling forward.

from the link:

Columbus didn't need a friggin' map, and neither do I.

(In urban environments, I defer to my wife on where to turn, what lane to be in, all of it. Because city driving sucks and I get a helmet fire and get lost.)

And if I got a map, I rotate it so it faces my diretion of travel, but that might be a Land Navigation training thing.

edited 1st Apr '11 4:54:04 PM by pvtnum11