At 02:35 AM 2/16/99 -0800, mcess@slip.net wrote:
quoted 8 lines People on this list are letting themselves make massive> People on this list are letting themselves make massive
>generalizations about gender, and even the people citing anecdotes/personal
>experience are tending to use them as support for their massive
>generalizations about gender. It's called "essentialism", people, and it's
>a drag. Substitute "left-handed" or "Philipino" for "woman" and switch the
>music under discussion to "hip hop" or "rock" and you will realize just how
>unconvincing ANY of your generalizations really are. Why do you expect
>aesthetic pleasure to correspond neatly to social groups? What
could you save this nonsense for some other psuedo-post-modernist thinker?
people are easy to generalize about. they are not all that different and most
generalizations have more truth to them than the average person would care to
admit.
people are boring and predictable and all this crap about gender issues is
annoying. get over your insecurities. it's called "essentialism." give me a
break. think of some more catchy phrases to fit your silly little ideologies.
and i think i'm off topic.
- wells oliver / s0ewoliv@titan.vcu.edu
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