White Men on Feminism

[etherial]

http://osewalrus.livejournal.com/73474.html

Comments

[agthorr.livejournal.com]

I hate it whenever people say "women do blah" or "men are thus-and-such"

If people said "women have a tendency to do blah" or "men have a tendency to be thus-and-such", would that also be objectionable?

Or, put another way, do you feel there is ever any truth to such statements?

(just curious)

[benndragon.livejournal.com]

That is objectionable when people use those statements improperly (which they often do). They're statements regarding statistics, which means they can not predict the behavior of a specific individual in a useful fashion (they predict the behavior of a random individual, which is not the same thing). So when people use such statements to describe the actions of a specific individual or to predict the future behavior of a specific individual, that is improper use and I will object.