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I hope not.
The cliche was meant to touch on the obvious problem of universal solutions derived from limited experience. Even finding a common vocabulary can be difficult until we agree on what can be hot-button terminology. Then, before "publishing" or "enacting," the findings must be carefully considered and presented or those not involved could fall into the same trap of applying our language to their experiences and value systems.
My feeling is that many of these studies are generous on the input side but lean on the output side, leading to these "rape = power" misunderstandings.
I tend to be repetitive about not trusting generalizations, and only taking them as seriously as their consequences.
Deja vu.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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