stereotype

Cartoons perpetuate stereotypes

(the bubbling fish and the sprinkling whale)

image of a panther

"We all know that stereotypes are bad, false images that prevent us from truly seeing other people. We also know that that stereotypes are, at a minimum, a necessary evil, that we could not make sense of or recognize objects or other people without the capacity to form images that allow us to distinguish one thing from another, one person from another, one class of thing from another."

W.J.T. Mitchell

Stereotypes are mental images

We have to play our role in life ("brain organizes visual information into groups").