I would use the phrase "hated sort". In my experience, most people genuinely can't stand those who don't follow the herd. They may find them academically curious from a distance, but are genuinely bothered by having them in their midst.
Any effort to make us all the same is destined to failure. Some 300,000 advanced degrees over the last eight years in social sciences (US alone), psychology, humanities, this studies, that studies and how many unique or significant theses and dissertations out of the bunch? Is there anything remaining to discover relative to human behavior or motivation? It's all simply redefinitionization of observations made and recorded over thousands of years.
We are different for primarily one reason....residual species survival mechanisms. If we COULD all behave identically, we would all have become predator food shortly after we dropped out of the trees. Survivors are those with specific instinctive responses or oddball thought patterns. Modern life has become so relatively easy over the last three or four generations that we are now overwhelmed by behavior types who would have been Darwined out of the gene pool just a hundred years back.
Those responsible for our successes relative to survival these days are those who are either different or who have a highly developed survival instinct...Einstein's, DaVinci's, Newton's, Euler's, Curie's, Mendel's, Vivien Thomases, successful pilots, old soldiers, race car drivers, bike riders, carpenters/builders, machinists, electricians, hunters.... hardly the 'civilized' or easily lead elements among us.
Maybe it's simply past time to stop floating the others along.
Excuse me while I find my flame-retardant pantyhose.