On a weekly basis I'm climbing a mountain, rock climbing, mountain biking, fishing, or in the gym bench pressing more than twice of what most guys here weigh most likely.
You take something superficial (people here play CF) and from that extrapolate that they're probably scrawny computer dweebs who get very little exercise and etc. That's probably true (just like its *probably* true that people who drink nothing but brandy alexanders are gay) but either way you're making a judgement based on some superficial information about a person. Its inescapable human nature - we break people into stereotypes and judge them on those stereotypes and draw full blown conclusions about their habits and behavior based on very limited and largely irrelevant information.
If you didn't function that way - to some degree or another (possibly in a polite way, granted) - you wouldn't be able to function in this society.
Edited to add - You may not recognize it when you do it but every time you meet someone or encounter a situation you immediately draw parallels based on whatever information is available to similar situations and people you've encountered in the past. From that "experience", you derive how you should behave. Those parallels may be totally irrelevant by any rational criteria but instinctively you reduce people into a set of traits and characteristics which you associate with other information about them. That's just how the human mind works. Whether or not you're vocal about that judgement you make and whether or not you act on it doesn't change the fact that you're always judging people.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/17/2008 10:55AM by Death_Claw.