Stop the X number of personality articles!

ATG-Ken

  What's the deal with all of these personality paragraphic articles?

There's a lot of popular internet articles out there these days. iVillage, eZine articles, Askmen there's so many websites that are geared towards dating, but these so-called dating gurus seem to make a habit of this one consistently recurring theme, but nobody stood up and rose the following question.
Why are potential lovers being sized up in X number of personality traits in a single essay-long article?

Both end of the genders are getting a face full of this asinine treatment. Good women are being segregated as low-maintenance, as patient women, as miss intelligents, while the bad women are being segregated as gold diggers, miss take, miss man hater, and miss cheater. While good men are being segregated as mister right, mister loyal, mister business ex, and bad men are being segregated as misogynists, needy wimps cheaters and all this stuff.

No need to go on, because surely ANY human being can pretty much write a top ten list of the worst personality traits in either gender.

Let's cut the nonsense of these articles..

A lot of people will agree with this. People don't like being labelled no matter how heavy or light the prejudice, and time over the centuries has not swayed this philosophy. These X kinds of personality traits articles are no exception.

Actually, it's not just a form of prejudice, it's an exceedingly condescending form of prejudice! Even if it's just a light form of it, it encourages a shamefully lowly thought out form of personality segregation that none of us deserve.

Even when people have the most glaring of the aforementioned traits that stick out like a a scientist in a jungle, it essentially encourages the mass of people to perceive say for example, a needy wimp, as nothing BUT a needy wimp, and nothing more.

Reasons why they're no good..