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Making generalized statements isn't actually bad, refusing to read them with the caveat that it's not fucking meant to factor in EACH AND EVERY INDIVIDUAL WHATEVER is bad. "People love chocolate" is NOT a criticism of any individual that does not love chocolate.
"Murdering your spouse is bad" is a generalized statement. Does that mean a person being abused who kills their spouse in self-defence is bad? OF FUCKING COURSE NOT. On a general basis every day with no issues would it be bad to randomly kill your spouse? YES. Not hard.
Life is FILLED with hidden context, hidden agendas, hidden feelings and experiences and circumstances. If you're going to take every single general statement about humanity personally you're going to be miserable.
But if we STOPPED sharing the parts of the human condition that are common amongst us, what good would that do? Think of all the generalized statements that validate your feelings because you're suddenly not alone ex. "Fat people are oppressed in our society."
"Women make less money than men.", "men are told to hide their feelings to protect their masculinity and it causes trauma.", "Police kill a lot of black people" - ARE ALL GENERALIZED STATEMENTS.
and they are things we need to KEEP SAYING and SAY EVEN LOUDER until those statements NO LONGER represent the population in general. It's more of a problem that GENERALLY SPEAKING women make less money than men than it is that that statement makes men feel bad.
FIGHT AGAINST THE SYSTEM, NOT THE SYSTEM'S VICTIMS
