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In reply to the discussion: Meet the Predators (men need to learn how to recognize and fight rape culture) [View all]TeamsterDem
(1,173 posts)you've defended all night long, that of it being ok to stereotype men by condoning statements such as "men need lessons" which, through its very phrasing, inherently means ALL men, otherwise it'd say "some men."
Language is telling insofar as a person's usage of it. The way a person phrases something sometimes says a lot about their internal workings. Other times it simply denotes their meaning. In this case, had the person meant to denote "some men," that's a phrasing that most in progressive circles understand and use when finding it necessary to talk about other groups. If they don't limit their phrase's scope it can often be a simple misstatement easily corrected by saying "I meant to say ..." but in this case there is no such correction, instead an incessant and heated defense of what is truly indefensible: stereotyping a gender.
Spin it any way you want, but we both know stereotyping a gender - either one - is wrong and almost universally inaccurate as well.