Thread:User talk:WaitingforGodot/Why women vote Republican/reply (9)

Well, if I had a stick up my arse right now, I'd object to "our" because it implies you, personally, are speaking on behalf of all women as a homogenised group that continually agree with everyone. Now, I have trouble saying that I speak on behalf of 30 people with respect to explicit shared interests, so I wouldn't be too sure that you could personally speak for 3.5 billion people on far wider reaching issues. It's an issue I find grates on me whenever I read things written by self-identified feminists (and some MRAs, of course, as widely opposed views tend to wrap around and meet each other again) that throw the word "men" and "women" around in this manner. It perpetuates some kind of mythical and epic confrontation that's just, at best, counterproductive and at worst a direct cause of what such people claim to be fighting against.

Imagine, for instance, Phyllis Schlafly discussing issues from her perspective and then adding an "our" in there, as if she spoke for you. You'd be pretty pissed then, because she doesn't speak for you so has no right to be claiming that in such a way, ya?

Anyway, that's if I was being a stickler for language use but frankly, your use of "our" is a subtle and innocent use of it rather than something more blatant. Not sure if that's what LX means or not, but it's the only objection I can think of.