Ok, I hope I got your attention with the title. My experience with stereotyping below the niggly:
I work with right wing good ole boys. The events in Boston have convinced these guys that the solution is to deport all Muslims. If deportation is not an option, the next best thing is to target all Muslims for extraordinary scrutiny. When I point out that the common thread among all of these terrorist acts is maleness, they get extremely uncomfortable. It's a way for me to bring to them the experience of feeling singled out and stereotyped, and it makes them extremely uncomfortable. However, I can only imagine that this is the way all of the Muslims in our communities feel today, and of course, have felt for the past 12 years.
I'm sure I'll get many comments from men criticizing my methods. However the truth of the matter is that men terrorize, murder, rape, and commit violent crime at far greater rates than women do. If the solution to terror in our great country is to deport all Muslims, then the solution to violent crime is to jail all men. Obviously my purpose is simply to open folks eyes to the very real results of the stereotype.
My coworkers are left a little bit glazed eyed after my proposal, but here's hoping that having the stereotypical arrow pointing at them causes them to take a good look at their own thoughts.