It used to be that identity was about what makes one unique, what distinguishes an individual from the generic average. In the redefined neo-progressive space, it's about what (supposedly) makes one similar to a group's norms.
If sincerely asked about the components of my self-perceived "identity", I would tend to focus on things like my …
It used to be that identity was about what makes one unique, what distinguishes an individual from the generic average. In the redefined neo-progressive space, it's about what (supposedly) makes one similar to a group's norms.
If sincerely asked about the components of my self-perceived "identity", I would tend to focus on things like my flavor of integrating head and heart, balancing and seeking synergy between caring and thinking. Not with my skin color or sex, which typically consist of bundles of population group stereotypes of which I may be typical or atypical. Where a group stereotype more or less fits me, it's being attributed to the group rather than to me, and where it doesn't fit I'm not being seen at all.
It used to be that identity was about what makes one unique, what distinguishes an individual from the generic average. In the redefined neo-progressive space, it's about what (supposedly) makes one similar to a group's norms.
If sincerely asked about the components of my self-perceived "identity", I would tend to focus on things like my flavor of integrating head and heart, balancing and seeking synergy between caring and thinking. Not with my skin color or sex, which typically consist of bundles of population group stereotypes of which I may be typical or atypical. Where a group stereotype more or less fits me, it's being attributed to the group rather than to me, and where it doesn't fit I'm not being seen at all.
So I agree.