New ‘Charity’ Established

Some women with too much time on their hands, unsupervised access to a Facebook account and access to some free PR on a slow news day have announced that they have set up a charity to help those poor unfortunates who seem to think that lazy stereotypes are sometimes mistaken for some kind of truth, or - in some way – reflect reality.

The women want to use the charity to point out to those too dense to work it out for themselves that stereotypes do not mean anything at all, and that no-one with even one single functioning brain cell ought to treat them as anything more as a lazy rhetorical device used to ease the flow of everyday banter.

As a founder of the group said:

Listen, I know all about last stereotyping. I come from Birmingham, so I have an accent that makes me sound like I spend my days masticating cardboard and hiding from angry clouds, but I know the stereotype is not true so therefore it simply does not matter, not to me and shouldn’t to anyone else.

However, it does seem that there are some out there too dense to realise even this, so we decided to set up this charity in order to try to help them see how trivially unimportant all this sort of thing actually is.

Later, the PR agent for the new charity said:

Really, you know these days anyone can claim to be outraged by seemingly anything at all, no matter how trivial or meaningless. Anyone can claim to be a victim of a society seemingly out to bully, harass and demean them by pointing out something so pointlessly trivial, stupid and meaningless as evidence of their claim. But no matter how absurd or ridiculous the claim, it seems that no-one these days is prepared to stand up to these people and tell them to stop acting like a twat, shut up and just get on with things like the rest of us.

Everyone knows, except it seems the most knuckle-dragging gawps on the planet, stereotypes are not true and to go around pretending that they are and that – consequently – you feel somehow diminished by being associated with that stereotype, no matter how tangentially only – in the end – diminishes you. Just because someone puts an open box in front of you, it does not mean you have to crawl into it and close the lid after you.

They are nearly as dim as those people who think that entertainers, sports stars and all the other so-called celebrities are ‘role-models’ who ought to be emulated. Really, sometimes you do wonder how the human race managed to learn the secret of fire without burning their arms off.