#generalization

[tangents-within-tangents]

Yellow = yellow

Bananas are yellow, does this mean that yellow = banana?

No, yellow = yellow

Yellow =/= banana, does this mean bananas aren't yellow?

Lemons are yellow, does this mean lemon = banana?

Lemon =/= banana, does this mean lemons aren't yellow?

Some apples are yellow, does this mean yellow = apple?

Some apples are red or green, does this mean apples can't be yellow?

Some apples are red, some apples are yellow, does this mean red = yellow?

Lemons and apples are round but bananas aren't, does this mean bananas aren't yellow?

Apples and bananas are sweet, does this mean lemon's aren't sour? Or that sourness is bad?

Bananas, lemons, and apples are fruit, does this mean mustard isn't yellow?

No, yellow = yellow

A category groups things that share a commonality despite their differences. The differences coexist within that commonality without redefining the category.

Other similarities coexist within, and without, the commonality without redefining the category either. The fact that it doesn't redefine the category does not mean those similarities don't hold significance of their own.

If not for the commonality, it wouldn't be a category. If not for the differences, it wouldn't be a category either.

Okay? Cool

Asexuality = experiencing little to no sexual attraction

[lesbianamalvada]

media written by men: all the best and most complex characters are male, one-dimensional female characters or complex female characters are mistreated by the narrative, fandom obsessed with male characters and ignores female ones.

media written by women: all the best and most complex characters are male, one-dimensional female characters or complex female characters are mistreated by the narrative, fandom obsessed with male characters and ignores female ones.

[howifeltabouthim]

So she is capable of this, is she? David might have thought, taking mental notes for the heroine in his novel, or maybe he didn't think that at all. Who knows how it is with men, their mental system of connections? They could be thinking of anything at all: an ignored stock tip, an unresolved problem, a cold pale ale, a plump pair of lips, a way to untangle themselves from a complicated situation.

Irina Reyn, from What Happened to Anna K.

[jadedwoman]

Today feels like a rambling day so here's some ramble: I absolutely 100% am fine with like jokes and stuff generalizing y'know, like calling all boys waistlines slutty (albeit even that I could question) but I hate when a post meant to be positive or something, just makes sweeping generalizations. Like I saw a post imply that if a girl feels safe she'll just send nudes and like, no????? I'm sure there are a lot of girls on here that might send nudes like that if they felt safe and respected, but to just claim 'girls' do that always frustrates me. I'm asexual, I might like text fantasy and others images, but I do not ever wish to make it more than that, fantasy, so no, even if I'm comfortable around you, there will not be any nudes, and despite what my brain wants to say, I'm not sorry

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Tom Golden

Published: May 16, 2025

Modern feminist thought has deeply influenced how society perceives and responds to gender-based stereotypes. Feminists have rigorously documented how stereotype threat impacts women and girls—how being reminded of negative gender-based assumptions can lower their performance, limit their confidence, and reduce their opportunities. As a result, enormous institutional energy has been devoted to minimizing stereotype threat for females across education, employment, and media.

Yet in a jarring contradiction, the same feminist voices that crusade against the stereotyping of girls often perpetuate, ignore, or excuse deeply harmful stereotypes about boys and men. From classrooms to courtrooms, from media headlines to college campuses, males are frequently cast in the most unflattering terms imaginable: violent, toxic, emotionally stunted, hypersexual, power-hungry. This glaring double standard is rarely acknowledged—and when it is, it's often waved away as justified.

The result is a cultural imbalance where girls are protected from stereotypes, while boys are buried under them. Let’s examine how this disparity is constructed, maintained, and what it costs all of us.

Stereotype Threat and the Feminist Crusade to Protect Girls

Feminists have long argued—and rightly so���that stereotypes about girls can shape outcomes. One of the most cited examples comes from the realm of STEM education. Studies have shown that girls perform worse on math tests when reminded of the stereotype that "girls aren’t good at math." This phenomenon, known as stereotype threat, was popularized by social psychologists Claude Steele and Joshua Aronson. Feminists embraced the concept and used it to campaign for reforms in teaching, testing, curriculum design, and media messaging.

Other domains soon followed. Feminists argued that girls were reluctant to lead because of the “bossy” label, or that societal beauty standards hurt girls’ self-esteem and academic performance. They noted that girls were silenced by fear of being called “sluts,” or that women in professional settings were discredited as “too emotional.” Each of these concerns was framed not just as an individual struggle, but as a systemic injustice—something society must urgently address.

And society listened. School systems restructured grading rubrics. Teachers were retrained. Billions were poured into programs to boost girls' confidence in science, leadership, and athletics. The public and private sectors launched endless initiatives to remove barriers caused by female stereotype threat.

In short, feminist activism produced a world where girls’ psychological safety was treated as sacred.

The Stereotyping of Boys: An Avalanche of Contempt

While girls were being lifted out of the trap of stereotype threat, boys were being pushed further in.

Instead of confronting negative assumptions about boys and men, feminist rhetoric often amplifies them. From slogans like “toxic masculinity” to academic theories of male privilege and patriarchy, boys and men are persistently painted with a broad and damning brush.

Here are just a few of the common stereotypes promoted or tolerated in feminist narratives:

“Toxic masculinity” — Suggests that traditional male traits like stoicism, competitiveness, or strength are inherently dangerous or pathological.

“All men are rapists” — A paraphrase of radical feminist assertions such as those made by Andrea Dworkin and echoed in various feminist circles, promoting the idea that male sexuality is fundamentally predatory.

“Men are pigs” — A socially tolerated insult that would be unthinkable if genders were reversed.

“The future is female” — A slogan implying men are obsolete or that society would be better off without them.

“Teach boys not to rape” — A blanket accusation that implies boys are budding criminals in need of reprogramming.

The sheer scale of anti-male generalizations today is staggering. Feminists have created entire frameworks—like the Duluth Model of domestic violence—that treat men as default aggressors and women as default victims. In higher education, young men are often presumed guilty under “believe all women” policies that strip them of due process. In mainstream media, the “bumbling dad,” the “man-child,” or the “creepy predator” are staple characters.

Meanwhile, no serious feminist movement campaigns to shield boys from these psychological burdens. There is no widespread effort to protect boys from stereotype threat. No national initiatives to challenge the myth that “boys don’t cry” or that “boys are naturally violent.” Instead, when boys struggle or fail, they’re often told to check their privilege or try harder not to be a threat.

A Culture That Justifies Male Stereotyping

One of the most troubling aspects of this double standard is the moral justification feminists use for maintaining it. The typical logic goes something like this:

Men have power.

Therefore, they can’t be victims.

Therefore, criticizing or generalizing about them is not harmful.

In fact, it’s necessary for justice.

This thinking allows feminists to cast boys and men in extremely negative terms while insisting that no real harm is done. But this argument collapses under scrutiny.

First, boys are not “the patriarchy.” They’re children. They don’t hold systemic power. Yet from an early age, they are fed messages—through media, school, and sometimes family—that their natural traits are problematic. If stereotype threat is damaging to girls, how much more damaging is it to tell boys they are inherently dangerous?

Second, even adult men are not immune to the effects of persistent shaming and stereotyping. Research on stereotype threat applies to any group facing negative assumptions. If women avoid STEM because they feel they don’t belong, what happens to boys who are told they’re emotionally broken, likely to abuse, or irrelevant?

The feminist model claims to fight for equality. But equality means fighting harmful stereotypes wherever they exist—not just when they affect women.

The Human Cost of Ignoring Stereotype Threat in Boys

Boys today are falling behind in almost every major metric. They lag in literacy, high school graduation rates, and college enrollment. They are more likely to be suspended, medicated, or diagnosed with behavioral problems. They are less likely to be encouraged to express vulnerability, receive mental health care, or have their pain taken seriously.

Feminist rhetoric plays a significant role in this decline. By flooding the culture with negative images of maleness, it reinforces the very stereotype threat that it claims to abhor—only this time, it targets boys.

Consider a boy growing up in today’s world. He hears that his male role models are “toxic.” He learns that his normal competitive urges are suspect. He sees men in the media portrayed as fools, predators, or bullies. He enters a classroom where empathy is reserved for girls and suspicion is reserved for boys. If he acts out, he’s a threat. If he withdraws, he’s invisible. Either way, he’s lost.

What message does this send to boys? What expectations do we set? What futures do we foreclose?

The cost isn’t just male suffering—it’s societal dysfunction. When half the population is taught to distrust itself, we all lose. Relationships become harder. Families fracture. Collaboration becomes suspicion. We create not equality but enmity.

Toward True Equality: Challenging All Stereotypes

If we are serious about ending stereotype threat, we must abandon the feminist double standard that protects girls while demonizing boys. Equality demands consistency.

We must challenge the notion that “masculinity” is toxic. We must stop normalizing phrases like “men are trash” or “all men are predators.” We must stop teaching boys that their natural impulses are shameful. And we must recognize that stereotype threat applies just as much—if not more—to boys who grow up under a cultural cloud of suspicion and contempt.

Imagine if we treated boys with the same empathy and concern we extend to girls. Imagine if we taught them that their emotions matter, that their strengths are assets, and that their masculinity is something to be honored, not erased.

True progress will not come from selectively dismantling stereotypes. It will come from rejecting all dehumanizing generalizations—whether they target girls or boys, women or men.

Only then will we live in a culture that affirms the dignity and potential of every human being.

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Remarkably, there are people who consider this kind of ethical consistency and equality to be not just unacceptable, but outright nefarious.

[normystical]

I'm literally crying. Of course Reddit crapped out where I needed it to work the most. Someone was degrading another user for having Valentino as their comfort character. They also used "narcissistic" as an insult. I told them that that was ableist, and to knock it off, and they said that it wasn't ableist because Val was "clearly narcissistic" (??? tf) and to go bother someone else. I seriously can't handle this amount of rage inside my body, I wouldn't wish this emotional pain on my worst enemy. What the actual fuck is wrong with that person?

[wendi-bnkywuv]

Reasonable/rational misanthropy? UPDATED

I'll keep the original text up to show my original thoughts, but I thought I'd update this after giving it time.

I say misanthrope in a very broad sense. It's not so much humanity I hate as much as it is just the sole nature of being. I am probably not alone in this idea. I use misanthrope because that is what I've been lead to believe it means. According to dictionary.com it means "hatred, dislike, or distrust of humankind".

Since humans can be forced to do things that are vile under threats, brainwashing, cultural upbringing, myself included, THAT is where "misanthropy" came from. According to the definitions provided on the internet, that was the phrase that best fit, but in reality, it's a dislike for how nature of evolution works in general that I disapprove of, and it's not just limited to humans.

Now to the original text.

So I've been going back and fourth on my calling myself a misanthrope. I DO NOT LIKE THIS LABEL!!!! I don't hate ALL humans, nor all of humanity.

I love my human father. I love my counselor. I love my niece. I love my nephews.

I hate CERTAIN humans. I hate certain ASPECTS of human nature. If a nonhuman animal emulates something that I find distasteful in humans, I do not hate that animal or species, but I do hate the fact that it reminds me of the cruelties of so many humans I've been forced to endure. Thus, I hate the aspect, but not the animal.

Basically, I see myself as a victim of animal abuse. I am an animal. An animal human. A human animal. An animal that was forced to see itself as human. A primate. A great ape.

It's natural for animals raised improperly by their own species to latch on to other species for support and belonging. Other primates will bond with humans if they were neglected or abandoned by their own species. Cats too, and dogs as well. This isn't just a human thing. Many social animals do this very same thing. It's a social mechanism for survival.

Upon doing some thinking, I realized something. My maternal unit would (and STILL does) scream at me for saying that I'm not human, or not human in the same way she wants me to be. She gave me misanthropic thought patterns by generalizing the word "human" to make me see myself as one, and needing to stop being my version of human.

This gave me a very bleak and distorted view of what humanity is. I am a very strange human indeed. I had to learn to view myself as human, and had to learn to care about being a stereotypical human, and through highly traumatic means.

Dehumanization lead me to think that in order to be what I am, I MUST be something nonhuman, right? Maybe I'm more human instead, so why don't I feel more than human? I HAVE TO BE nonhuman! If I was nonhuman she wouldn't be giving me shit for any of this...ah ha! That explains EVERYTHING! I am not human! I am a mutant monkey! A mutant ape! A mutant suminia...and of course I'm not my paranthrotype with all of it's abilities! I AM A MUTANT VERSION OF THEM DUE TO MY BEING A PRIMATE, A HUMAN! YES! THIS IS IT!!!!!

If my imaginary species were classified as humans, I'd be all for it, embracing every single fucking aspect of humanity! If bonobos were considered humans, again, I'd fucking LOVE that! If my imaginary creatures were what humanity would evolve into, again....FUCKING WIN!!!! If humans were not doing all of the nasty vile things they do, I'd love ALL of humanity. I'm just MUCH more prone to notice the bad instead of the good due to my trauma and forced generalization.

[hale-my-nathan]

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[theonlyuniverseofcolorfulsoul]

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일반화는 1=100이라고 하는 것과 다르지 않다.

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Although we have described the merging of possible histories in the context of only a couple of specific examples, this way of thinking about quantum mechanics is general.

"The Fabric of the Cosmos" - Brian Greene

[properantagonist]

I'm so tired of the generational discourse. There are all kinds of people in all generational groups, you're not all of a sudden different because you were born a year earlier.

Sure, there are certain things in common that people share due to the reality of living around the same time frame, but these are a small percentage of their entire personhood. Generations also vary with their technological and media experiences depending on the area of the world they were brought up in (some countries are obviously slower to adapt to globalised progress).

I'm tired of people blaming an entire generation for things done by all generations to some extent, or blaming it for something only a chunk of them do/did.

I saw a tweet claiming that "gen z bullied an artist to the point of near suicide for drawing a character wrong". Yeah, the whole generation is responsible. The entire generation is doomed because Something Bad ™ happened. I guess GIs were entirely responsible for WW2, right?

[the-forest-library]

kill the imposter syndrome in your head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they’re also using chat gpt to do it

[elexuscal]

"what did students do before chatgpt?" well one time i forgot i had a history essay due at my 10am class the morning of so over the course of my 30 minute bus ride to school i awkwardly used by backpack as a desk, sped wrote the essay, and got an A on it.

six months later i re-read the essay prior to the final exam, went 'ohhhh yeah i remember this', got a question on that topic, and aced it.

point being that actually doing the work is how you learn the material and internalize it. ChatGPT can give you a short cut but it won't build you the the muscles.

[thelocalmuffin]

Hey everyone, I know it's going to be a busy day for a lot of people, but Google enrolled everyone over 18 into their AI program automatically.

If you have a google account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off.

Then you need to go to myactivity.google.com/product/gemini and turn off all Gemini activity tracking. You do have to do them in that order to make sure it works.

Honestly, I'm not sure how long this will last, but this should keep Gemini off your projects for a bit.

I saw this over on bluesky and figured it would be good to spread on here. It only takes a few minutes to do.

[mityenka]

when you grew up as a lonely uncool girl it will never stop haunting you by the way. you will meet a cool person at a bar or the train station or at a friend's party and you can wear your most stylish outfit and striking eye makeup and you will swear that they can see through all of the facade and see the lonely terribly insecure teenage girl you used to be who desperately wanted to connect and you will swear that they know that there is like an insurmountable gap between you. this will happen forever