I hate generalizations!

Apparently today is my "bitchy" day. I've got an opinion and I'm not afraid to share it and I don't care who you are or who you THINK you are. I despise generalized statements that clump an entire group of people together! I read something earlier on another web page that "stuck in my craw", as we say in the South. A fellow Army wife made a statement that essentially said ALL Army wives that use "military time or words" are stupid. She is the resident expert on that because this wife is also a FORMER soldier. Gosh, I didn't realize that her being a former soldier makes her more knowledgeable than anyone else. 

What this so called expert fails to realize is that she includes herself in her broad generalized statement. Major FAIL!! If military wives use 24 hr time or acronyms ("military words"), then that does not make them stupid. A lot of the time it's because jokes are being made. 

My issue isn't so much with her bashing Army wives, although I do take offense to that, it's the fact that she uses a broad generalized statement instead of focusing on the person that she deemed "stupid". You prove just how truly ignorant you are when you make those types of statements. It shows just how much of a racist/sexist/segregationist you are, because you automatically assume that all people in whatever group are the same way. This would be like me saying "All fat people are lazy" when I know that isn't the case! Just for clarification, I was being facetious when I wrote that. When I weighed 125 lbs more than I do now, I was NOT lazy. Sometimes I think I did more then than I do now. I just look more "socially acceptable" now with my weight being "normal". Whatever. I don't do normal. 

The day that people stop making generalizations will be a great day in history! Not that we'll ever get there, but oh to dream. 

Now...go forth and spread my message that all people that make generalized statements about a group of people are bumbling a**holes that need a lobotomy. You can even tell them I said it and if they have a problem they can take it up with me personally.

~ Dee ~