@Aqua-Letifer said in I love to Jeopardy:
By the way... I say thee whatever to Trebek's gaffe. He wasn't making fun of either of them, he just hadn't met too many male nurses or female carpenters I guess.
I say the same about people who grew up insulated, see black folks on the metro for the first time, and get uncomfortable. They aren't racist, that's just what you do when people act in ways you don't expect due to your lack of experience—the exact same thing happens when people unaccustomed to dealing with Tourette sufferers are forced to deal with them at Starbucks or whatever. They get quiet and cautious, and try not to draw attention to themselves. It's not hate or judgment, just caution and unease borne out of ignorance, and a biological response that's literally older than the hills. And it goes away once they've more experience with people different from themselves, so, BFD.
My success rate for convincing people this isn't a horrible analysis is about 13% but I stand by it.
Yep. People go by the judgments formed by their experiences. Period. It has been ever thus. It seldom has anything to do with the other person outside of familiarity.