{"id":1175,"date":"2009-12-23T11:07:33","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T17:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2009-12-23T11:07:33","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T17:07:33","slug":"stereotypes-following-the-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2009\/20091223-1175.htm","title":{"rendered":"Stereotypes&#8230;following the links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t you just love the internet?<\/p>\n<p>You check your <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/bekahcubed\" target=\"_blank\">twitter page<\/a> to see who&#8217;s following you (You rarely use the main site for anything else, as you&#8217;ve got some fantastic twitter aps like <a href=\"http:\/\/tweetdeck.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TweetDeck<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Share-a-holic<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Turns out <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JesusNeedsNewPR\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Paul Turner<\/a> is following you (must have been that one time you linked to one of his articles using Shareaholic). <\/p>\n<p>You decide to see what&#8217;s new on his site, <a href=\"http:\/\/jesusneedsnewpr.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jesus Needs New PR<\/a> and find a fun little article on <a href=\"http:\/\/jesusneedsnewpr.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/stereotyping-christians-by-their.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;stereotyping Christians by their favorite Christian author.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article links to <a href=\"http:\/\/unreasonablefaith.com\/2009\/12\/21\/stereotyping-people-by-their-favorite-author\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;stereotyping people by their favorite author&#8221;<\/a> which quotes from <a href=\"http:\/\/laurenleto.wordpress.com\/readers-by-author\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;readers by author.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amused by the content found on this collection of linked articles, you decide to write your own blog post on the stereotypes&#8211;and link to each article respectively.<\/p>\n<p>As I am a reader, I found this collection of stereotypes particularly interesting.  And though I have LOTS more than just ONE favorite author, I thought these comments about some of my favorites rather interesting.<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/jesusneedsnewpr.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/stereotyping-christians-by-their.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jesus Needs New PR<\/a> list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Joshua Harris<\/b>: Virgin (Yup.)<\/li>\n<li><b>Beth Moore<\/b>: Moms whose voices become breathy while praying aloud. (Okay, so I&#8217;m only a mommy wannabe&#8211;but the &#8220;breathy while praying aloud&#8221; is probably true.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/laurenleto.wordpress.com\/readers-by-author\/\" target=\"_blank\">original list<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Jane Austen<\/b>: Girls who made out with other girls in college when they were going through a \u201cphase\u201d. (Not even.  I don&#8217;t know what Jane Austen this commentator is reading.  More like, &#8220;girls with romantic fantasies of the strong and silent type&#8221;.)<\/li>\n<li><b>Nathaniel Hawthorne<\/b>: People who used to sleep so heavy that they would pee their pants. (Well, as a child I did.  But I don&#8217;t really get what it has to do with Hawthorne.)<\/li>\n<li><b>William Shakespeare<\/b>: People who like bondage. (Actually, not everything is &#8220;Taming of the Shrew&#8221;&#8211;and even there, it&#8217;s not so much about bondage.  Some of us just like the witty repartee and skilled linguistic jabs a la Beatrice and Benedict or Kate and Petruchio.)<\/li>\n<li><b>C.S. Lewis<\/b>: Youth group leaders who picked their nose in the 4th grade. (Guilty as charged&#8211;except that I stepped down from the youth sponsorship gig last December.)<\/li>\n<li><b>Shel Silverstein<\/b>: Girls who can\u2019t spell \u201cleheim\u201d. (Had to look that one up because I didn&#8217;t realize the author was trying to say &#8220;L&#8217;Chaim&#8221;.  I&#8217;m too much of a reader for this one.  Spelling is usually easier for me than pronouncing&#8211;although I can pronounce this one thanks to &#8220;Fiddler on the Roof&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li><b>Michael Pollan<\/b>: The girl who just turned vegan to cover up her eating disorder. (Nope.  I like food too much for that one.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If I were to turn the stereotypes the other direction, I should find that I enjoy:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>J.K. Rowling<\/b>: Smart geeks.<\/li>\n<li><b>Anne Rice<\/b>: People who don\u2019t use conditioner in their hair.<\/li>\n<li><b>Sylvia Plath<\/b>: Girls who keep journals.<\/li>\n<li><b>Vladimir Nabokov<\/b>:Men who use words like \u2018dubious\u2019 and \u2018tenacity\u2019. (except that I&#8217;m a woman)<\/li>\n<li><b>Phillippa Gregory<\/b>: Women who have repressed their desire to go to Renaissance Festivals (don&#8217;t know that I&#8217;ve repressed the desire&#8211;I just haven&#8217;t actually been to a Renaissance faire.)<\/li>\n<li><b>Stieg Larsson<\/b>: Girls who are too frightened to go skydiving. (Not going to lie, I&#8217;m about the farthest thing from an adrenaline junkie.)<\/li>\n<li><b>Dean Koontz<\/b>: People who would never dream of owning any type of \u201ctoy\u201d breed dog.<\/li>\n<li><b>Richard Dawkins<\/b>: People who have their significant other grab them under the table in order to shut them up whenever someone else at a dinner says something absolutely ridiculous and wrong. (Okay, so I&#8217;ve never actually had anyone grab me under the table, but I&#8217;m sure some people have felt like it on occasion.  I do tend to be a bit opinionated and can be overeager to share my knowledge and, erm, &#8220;wisdom&#8221;.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So what about you?  What do your favorite authors say about you?  And who should be your favorite authors according to these stereotypes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t you just love the internet? You check your twitter page to see who&#8217;s following you (You rarely use the main site for anything else, as you&#8217;ve got some fantastic twitter aps like TweetDeck and Share-a-holic.) Turns out Matthew Paul Turner is following you (must have been that one time you linked to one of &#8230; <a title=\"Stereotypes&#8230;following the links\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2009\/20091223-1175.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stereotypes&#8230;following the links<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[2,23],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}