Though an ex-footballer hardened in England's lower leagues, he resists stereotype, having the ability to change depending on his audience.
That is how you empower young people to resist stereotypes," Stepnitz said.
His point is that if you want to change perceptions you have to resist stereotypes.
While gender stereotypes are strong and should be challenged, there's a fine line between resisting stereotypes and having different standards for different sexes.
Andrew McIntosh, a thirty-year-old composer and a Baroque violinist who grew up in a small town on the edge of the Nevada desert, is one of a number of L.A. musicians who pay heed to the twentieth-century avant-garde, resisting stereotypes of the city as a domain of movie-score bombast.
Though he cherished African-American heritage, he resisted stereotypes of black music as an atavistic, shake-your-body affair: his singers didn't clap their hands or sway about, and his programs intermingled spirituals with Renaissance polyphony, Bach chorales, Russian liturgical anthems, and his own a-cappella pieces, which fuse folk and classical strains.
For decades organists have, almost unanimously, failed to resist stereotypes and failed to fight for changes that would help audiences to realise that the organ is never an end in itself but only a means to an end.You are referred to as the Berlin Philharmonic's "organist in residence".
And of independence: you feel her at all points resisting stereotype, staleness, categorization.
From young moms like Reese Witherspoon to less-conventional ones like Rosie O'Donnell, today's mothers resist stereotyping.
As I have written before (see, e.g., here), stereotypes are very difficult to eradicate, particularly because our minds actively resist stereotype change — even in the face of disconfirming evidence.
