Conflicting Stereotypes

All stereotypes are both epistemologically fallacious and metaphysically false.  No, a man who is harsh is not harsh because he is a man.  There is nothing about being an elderly person at the present time in history that entails being a residual racist.  A wealthy person is not necessarily uncaring about those with fewer resources.  A woman who likes to shop, as with all personality traits, either has this mental characteristic because of her individual personality or because of social conditioning, not because she is a woman.  None of these mental/nonphysical qualities follows from having a specific gender, a certain age, and other such things, and one person does not necessarily have the same personality or talents as another even if they have the same gender, age, and so on.  Even so, some people not only believe in stereotypes, but they also propose stereotypes that by logical necessity contradict another stereotype they hold to.  Anything that contradicts logical axioms directly, some other necessary truths, or itself can only be false.

Even if any of these stereotypes were true, and they are by their very nature erroneous, they could not all be true at once.  For instance, men cannot be the financially "mature" ones out of men and women when it comes to the alleged bent of women towards the likes of frivolous, unrestrained shopping, not if they are also be the "immature" ones regarding how they spend money, supposedly wasting it on alcohol or gambling.  Each of these stereotypes, which I have encountered and which are both false by logical necessity for the same non sequitur reasons, is in conflict with the other.  Women are also supposed to be emotionally volatile in contrast with the relative "emotionlessness" or at least emotional stability of men, but men are also supposed to be constantly or easily driven to violence by extreme anger.  However, if men were just the emotionless, empty husks that some people think (something that could only be true on an individual basis), they could not feel anger or any other vehement emotions at all, much less be motivated primarily or exclusively by them as some of the same people might believe.

Not all of the societally entrenched stereotypes have to do with gender, of course.  Black people, according to one stereotype (which also tends to conflate education and intelligence), are naturally stupid, as if the color of someone's skin has anything to do with an individual's grasp of reason.  At the same time, there is the stereotype that black people are "smarter" than white people because they try to very proactively stay out of dangerous, uncertain situations, such as by refusing to investigate a threatening hallway in a movie.  This fallacious idea is said to stem from them being victimized by racism to the extent that they would try to avoid other kinds of trouble at almost any cost, hence the alleged race-related "intelligence".  If one of these stereotypes was true, and none could be, then the other could only be false, since black people cannot be both stupid and intelligent because of their skin color.  They utterly exclude each other and are all logically false for the same aforementioned reasons.

Other examples could be identified.  Women cannot be delicate, oblivious, harmless beings and cold, egoistically manipulative masterminds who seek to financially or emotionally exploit men at the same time.  Hispanic immigrants cannot be a natural psychological "fit" for taking on low-paying or manual labor jobs and be rushing to take jobs away from wealthier, native-born Americans at the same time.  An Asian person cannot both be a collectivist drone and hyper-intelligent due to their race or cultural background.  All stereotypes are logically false, and even on the level of social experience or one's own introspective experience as opposed to strict logical necessity, people from a given racial category, among other things, would never believe or act any differently from one another if their worldviews, skills, and desires truly were tied to their race.  Many of the stereotypes concerning gender, race, age, nationality, and other factors still contradict each other with regard to the same category of people and thus have an additional philosophical flaw.