Categories? (was Re: The Left, The Public, was Re: Ideology....)

[j.f. noonan]

On Fri, 25 May 2001, kelley wrote:
>
> At 09:55 AM 5/25/01 -0500, Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> > That is, SUV drivers do
> > not constitute a unified category about which general
> > statements can legitimately be made.
>
> neither does the category "woman" or "women" as many astute
> feminists have pointed out in the past 20 years.

Nor does the category 'gay', as my astute self has been saying
for years (although not 20 of them).

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Joseph Noonan
Houston, TX
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