There are a few kickers about “positive” stereotyping:
1) any members of the group being “positively” stereotyped are not good at whatever the stereotype is about, they are really going to get grief… much more than the rest of us would get.
2) if the member of the group being “positively” stereotyped does well at whatever it is, they are not going to get the kind of recognition and praise the rest of us get.
3) accompanying the “positive” stereotype of that group is the assumption that the rest of us are not as good at so and so.
The “Asians are good at math” is a classic one. “Blacks are great athletes” is another. My people are “good musicians.” As a child, I was kind of expected to be a good musician. I was but that had nothing to do with my ethnicity. Plenty of us suck at it.
“Positive” stereotypes are just as inaccurate as negative ones.
@stranger_in_a_strange_land I hope you get some rest.