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Originally Posted by james t kirk
You're overly sensitive, as evidenced by your throwing out the "misogynistic" label, especially considering that this thread stems from a thread on the Ladies Lounge.
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No, she's not. "Women on the other hand, they never stop worrying about "settling" is a very generalized statement that by simple rules of grammar of which I am sure you are aware, encompasses all women. Perhaps it's a mild form of misogyny, but misogyny it is indeed.
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Obviously it's something women think about, as evidenced by the original thread, women I've met, and women I've corresponded with.
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I am only assuming here, but I do not believe you have met or corresponded with every woman on the planet. Therefore perhaps "Some women never stop worrying. . . " would have been a much more lucid and clear argument.
It is the all-encompassing generalization of women that Abaya, and for that matter, I myself, object to.
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As to generalizations, life is full of them. That's how humans operate.
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Perhaps, but why is it any better to generalize "worrying about settling" to all women than it is to generalize something about, say, black people? One is racist, the other, blatantly sexist.