Puerile sexist shite

The point about stereotypes is that they are to some degree fairly accurate. If they weren't there wouldn't be any. They have cultural resonance. Observation has confirmed them. We don't have stereotypes about, say, Welsh people having a great interest in shoes or Scousers preferring playing with dolls to cars or trains because there's no evidence to support either assertion. We do on the other hand hold these as stereotypes about women, largely because the majority of them conform to these stereotypes.

It's almost a chicken-and-egg question, Niall. :)

However, in this case, what 'came first' is conditioned by history.