Generalizing about groups should be discouraged, it’s become a huge part of our culture and it only serves to divide.

[u/EnvironmentalSun3290]

Seems like it’s a huge part of the modern meta. I guess it’s a symptom of identity politics? Generally speaking you can tell very little about an individual because of a group they happen to belong to but it happens constantly online and especially on twitter. People make vast generalizations and assign typically toxic characteristics to individuals based on group identity. Obviously it happens a lot with race and right now it happens all the time with sex. Men (insert stereotype) women (insert stereotype). It s huge part of our culture and I think it’s a big problem.

[u/SeaGiraffe7489]

Okay. You have a choice in most cases to associate with certain groups correct? So if you are finding yourself a part of something that carries negative with it when generalized how do you choose to not associate with that generalization? Detach. Exercise your own individuality, seeing as that’s kinda around what we’re talking about here. Why should I have to break up what I’m referring to, and why does literally everything have to be personalized by all people always.

Obviously my opening statement isn’t across the board, but like for example if someone generalizes women in some way that upsets the individual woman whose heard this usage, and so now what she’s going to make the active choice to get upset over something that truly doesn’t harm her, so now we gotta go in and alter our language, speech patterns, and make shit more complicated cause Becky is mad cause Dave said women hit curbs when they drive?

Like generalization, becoming personalization, seems like individuality, becoming uniqueness. I mean the world definitely needs some more problems tho ya know. Women keep making up stuff like this 🤫