the only way to kill a malignant stereotype, effectively, is to ignore it. thinking about it in any way will only serve to reënforce it, as far as i can ascertain. but that’s only inside your own head, right? how do you kill a stereotype that exists in the wild? they spread virally. so. one person can’t kill a wild stereotype. what you can do, as an individual, is actively prevent yourself from becoming a carrier of the stereotype. this means that you must do everything in your power to prevent yourself from passing it. in order to do this, however, you must vigilantly monitor your every thought and transmission, to prevent elements of the stereotype from insidiously embedding themselves in your thoughts, words, and actions. this directly contradicts our primarily established method of killing the stereotype within yourself, which means that the more you attempt to prevent the stereotypes’ spread outside of yourself, the more you must invariably reënforce it within your own mind. thus, it would seem, the stereotype will only end when an entire generation of the society that harbors the stereotype can trick themselves into performing this sort of mental autoablation*, to prevent the stereotype from infecting those that come after them. essentially, you have to live with it, so your children don’t have to. it frightens me, however, to think of the possible secondary effects of doing this to yourself. it seems like you could seriously fuck up your own perceptions if your efforts at self-censorship mutate beyond your own control. sadly, this outcome doesn’t seem preposterous, considering we’re all a bunch of human beings, who are known far and wide for such inventions as stoicheometry, and the crack pipe.

(*) if I had known the word “trepanation” when I originally wrote this, I would have used it here, cuz it’s way more pretentious and not an awkward neologism (neoprefixation? dunno.)