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

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>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).
>--
>Joseph Noonan

Nor do the categories apples & oranges?

Yoshie