“I think,” he said slowly as she took the disk from his hand, “that there is little purpose to thinking things like ‘the Liadens,’ ‘the Clutch,’ ‘the humans,’ or even ‘the Yxtrang.’ I think the best way to think—and talk—is in particulars: ‘Val Con,’ ‘Miri,’ ‘Edger.’ If you need to think bigger because some things take more people, it might be wise to think ‘Erob,’ ‘Korval,’ ‘Middle River’—a group small enough that you can still name the individuals; a group small enough that you can, in time, know the individuals, the parts of the Clan. Where is the threat in ‘Handler,’ ‘Edger,’ ‘Terrence’?”
There's some wisdom in there, which I think might apply to generalizing about women and men and all that... individuals instead of abstractions.
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Date: 2013-06-10 01:26 pm (UTC)There's some wisdom in there, which I think might apply to generalizing about women and men and all that... individuals instead of abstractions.