You were directly generalizing about males, but indirectly generalizing about females. By saying “Men wish women took more initiative.” (paraphrased) Then you are indirectly saying that women don’t take much initiative.
True? Probably....But I assume less so in the LW community, and us LW females are only too happy to point that out.
Likewise, if I said “Women wish men weren’t so messy”, then there is an indirect generalization in that statement that “Men are messy”.
I didn’t think I was generalizing women, rather the generalizations nerds (and by this I obviously meant male nerds) tend to believe.
Whether the generalization itself was accurate or not didn’t cross my mind since it seemed mostly immaterial to the subject at hand.
Likewise, if I said “Women wish men weren’t so messy”, then there is an indirect generalization in that statement that “Men are messy”.
I read that as implying “Women think men are messy”. I’m not a native speaker, perhaps to avoid such miscommunication I should rather stick to my regular, more verbose style, English writing style. So thanks for the feedback!
But since we are on the subject. Men are messy. Women are more passive in romance. At least it seems more likley than not.
True? Probably....But I assume less so in the LW community, and us LW females are only too happy to point that out.
Why? Perhaps women adopting on average a more passive strategy is a good thing in some way. In any case I don’t see why talking about specific populations needs to be followed by disclaimers that people on LW might not be like that … well duh, the site is pretty non-representative.
You were directly generalizing about males, but indirectly generalizing about females. By saying “Men wish women took more initiative.” (paraphrased) Then you are indirectly saying that women don’t take much initiative.
True? Probably....But I assume less so in the LW community, and us LW females are only too happy to point that out.
Likewise, if I said “Women wish men weren’t so messy”, then there is an indirect generalization in that statement that “Men are messy”.
I didn’t think I was generalizing women, rather the generalizations nerds (and by this I obviously meant male nerds) tend to believe.
Whether the generalization itself was accurate or not didn’t cross my mind since it seemed mostly immaterial to the subject at hand.
I read that as implying “Women think men are messy”. I’m not a native speaker, perhaps to avoid such miscommunication I should rather stick to my regular, more verbose style, English writing style. So thanks for the feedback!
But since we are on the subject. Men are messy. Women are more passive in romance. At least it seems more likley than not.
Why? Perhaps women adopting on average a more passive strategy is a good thing in some way. In any case I don’t see why talking about specific populations needs to be followed by disclaimers that people on LW might not be like that … well duh, the site is pretty non-representative.
Sorry for dragging down our average, guys!
Shun the group norm violator, he makes us look bad in front of others. Shun! Shun!