"misguided stereotypes" is a grammatically correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used when discussing preconceived or oversimplified ideas about a group of people that are inaccurate or harmful. An example sentence could be: "The media's portrayal of women as overly emotional and irrational perpetuates misguided stereotypes and ignores their intelligence and capabilities."
For centuries, tuberculosis has been the source of misguided stereotypes, including the association of consumption with creativity and brilliance.
Along comes the latest jumbo marketing attempt to make little girls act according to misguided stereotypes ("Dolls as Role Models, Neither Barbie Nor Britney," Arts pages, Nov. 6).
The family is religious, she doesn't drink or smoke, and she is glad the profile of Mormonism has risen a little recently, so there aren't so many embarrassing questions or misguided stereotypes.
Through paper, pictures and pure determination, he chipped away at misguided stereotypes and revealed the successes, power and potential of black men and women.
Macintosh (2005, 119 21) has warned that by expressing certain concerns about cloning one may actually reinforce certain prejudices and misguided stereotypes about clones.
Upon my arrival in the States I too dealt with misguided stereotypes.
We should be correcting the misguided stereotype about whingeing Scousers, not fuelling it.
"The campaign promotes the misguided stereotype of a woman as a sexual object of her husband and ignores the major advances we have achieved in deconstructing sexist practices and thinking," the secretariat said this week in a statement.
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Many times people put limitations on others and worse, themselves, based on stereotypes, misguided fear, or societal expectations.
Judge Daniels added that those who seek to destroy lives and property "can only attack and destroy the freedoms we cherish if we give in to hysteria and blindly turn on one another wrongly motivated by prejudicial stereotyping, misguided patriotism or false heroism".
