A stereotype is a simplified and generalized idea about a group of people.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

He revises it away from that to the more generalized, fundamental, but also very personal figure of the mother and the maternal.

但对母亲以及母性来说，这也是一很个人化的角色。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So it's much more targeted and it doesn't address HIV as if it's a generalized epidemic.

VOA: standard.2010.07.07