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History of Feminism

malthaussen

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1. Did you ever think that the need to categorize things...

Reply to ismnotwasm (Original post)

Sat Jun 13, 2015, 09:08 AM

Jun 2015

... is one of the failings of our society? Of course, it has its uses, but I've long thought we take it too far. The primary problem is that when things are categorized, they're expected to demonstrate certain characterists and are considered more-or-less "wrong" when they do not. While this may not have deep consequences for, say, a pair of shoes, when categorization is applied to individual people, the results can be quite problematic.

-- Mal

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Did you ever think that the need to categorize things... malthaussen Jun 2015 #1